Dang, I wish it would rain!

[CathyA]

Once again, we're in a near-drought situation. We had a severe drought last summer, but fortunately, it rained alot this spring. But now we haven't had rain in about 2 months or more. I have to water the garden every other day, the back yard (flowers/herbs/bushes) on the alternate day, and tonight I watered about 6 of our new/small white pines out in the field. One of them already died.
Its easier to carry milk gallon jugs with water than it is to drag the hose out hundreds of feet, through poison ivy.........but they still aren't getting enough. I have lots of trees and perennials and bushes that I planted in the Spring of 2012, and I don't want to lose them. I don't understand this. I thought Mother Nature liked me.
I hope you're all having better luck with weather than we are.

[Tussiemussies]

Hope you do get some soon!!! Hauling that water out to the trees etc. doesn't sound so great....

[CathyA]

Thanks Tussiemussies........actually I should have said I take it out there on my golf cart..........but its still hard with my arthritic body to fill all those jugs, etc.
I wouldn't be able to do it at all without my trusty steed........the golf cart!

[pinkytoe]

No suck luck here either. With 100+ everyday, things are really drying up quickly. We are only allowed to water once a week so on that day, I probably spend at least 2-3 hours dragging the hose around just trying to keep things alive. I also save water in a bucket from household chores to water certain plants in between. Seems like it was once so easy back when it used to rain occasionally.

[redfox]

Man, it opened up in Seattle today. Likely ruined the blackberry harvest, dammit all... Very unseasonable too.

[goldensmom]

I said that Monday and Tuesday we got 3" of rain within 2 hours, wind, trees/limbs down, power outages. 'Ask and ye shall receive'.....I guess I should have qualified my request as to amount and how it was to be received. Glad for it anyhouw.

[CathyA]

The weather recently is really strange. Some places, not too far from here, probably got too much rain. Its really curious why things are so compartmentalized.
Our ground is still hard and cracked from last year's drought, in spite of the good rains we had in the spring. I think some of my garden problems this year were from the ground being so hard. But in the spring, we had so much rain that when we needed to plant, we couldn't till the soil because of its wetness and just had to dig small trenches to plant seeds/plants. The plants did okay until the roots met that hardpan soil. Hopefully this Fall, we'll be able to amend the soil and really till it up. But you never know...........it might be too wet!!

[Float On]

This has been a year of either too much or not enough when it comes to rain. We're back to the not enough after having floods in early August. My MIL and BIL are due in from SC tonight. They've had way too much rain all summer in SC and guess what is finally in our forecast? A slight chance of rain.

[Gregg]

No rain to speak of here in the past month or more, after a wet spring. Temps over 100* this week and into the weekend. Blea. Slight chance Saturday night and cooler Sunday. Come on cold front!!!

[CathyA]

I'm sitting here hearing thunder. On the radar its right over us, in red and yellow. So where's the rain???????????