Behold, the rain comes. After getting pretty dry while watching all they rain pass us by it was finally our turn. We collected an inch and a quarter over several days, cool days, I might add, so that the moisture was able to soak in good. And we avoided the hail and high winds that afflicted other parts of the High Plains. SA, which was already greening up pretty well in spite of the dearth of moisture turned green almost overnight. Yesterday there were mostly clear skies so the sunshine helped in that process. It was an ideal time to pull and spray weeds and I took advantage. Continue reading “Sweeeet!”
Sweeeet!
by rakeeter 
We woke to several inches of snow Easter morning but it was gone by the Easter egg hunt in the afternoon. The snow started Saturday evening as we were gathered at 2005 for dinner. Abigail played in v-ball tournament that day, which kept her and her mom busy from early morning to late afternoon. Dinner was a little late but worth the wait. Anyway, big flakes started falling sideways north to south and quickly covered the ground in spite of the temperature being in the 40’s when it started. It was a wet, sticky snow and I don’t know how much moisture we got since it fell at an angle and thus none accumulated in the rain gauges. Sunday morning there were at least three inches piled up on the yard lights. Let’s say there was a tenth of an inch of moisture per inch which would give us 3/10s of an inch, which is probably about right. We need more but we’ll take what we can get.