Rain, GLORIOUS rain for the last four days.
Everything looks like it is so thankful. The flowers and grass are making an effort to look green and colorful.
Some of the trees are even starting to put on tiny, new leaves. Some of them will not make it. So sad. We lost a lot of huge trees this spring during strong winds because they were so shallow rooted from 4 years of drought. Those poor roots were reaching for any water they could find.

Hopefully, the rain we have gotten so far will save the farmers crops. They are struggling to just break even this year. We didn't get any horse hay this spring and now we might not get any at all. Our horses, Chessie and Red Man  will not be very happy this winter if we don't get hay.  Keeping a positive thought that the hay fields will come back out.

Our garden is lost. Besides the lack of rain, the deer and turkeys eaten what they could. Next year, electric fence will be the first thing that goes in the garden. A lot of work for nothing. Never again.
Now the humidity is almost unbearable. But you take the good with the bad, smile and keep your mouth shut. Enough said.

The high today, 102. Thunder and hopefully rain. Thunder storms early this morning and a bed full of dogs.

Thunder, lightning, dogs in the bed and that all equals NO SLEEP!!!

I never had a dog that was scared of storms. And the ones we have didn't start out scared. It just kinda started slowly. It is funny but also pitiful. Nothing helps except to put them in the bed. Then we have free vibrations for most of the duration of the storm. I'm not one who likes to be crowded. I don't even like cover on me. So with two dogs laying on me and shaking,  makes for a miserable night.
We desperately need the rain. So I guess I will just have to get over myself and endure, for the dogs sake.

Wild Turkeys

They love to peck my tomatoes and move on.

Sunflower patch  near the Tennessee River.

Same patch

I would love to see this from the air!!

IT RAINED!!!! Not very much but it RAINED!!
Nor a drop for almost 3 weeks. Everything is brown and crunchy.
A lot of trees will probably not make it. Three years in a row of low rainfall and everything is dying.
I keep waiting for our well to go dry. It can't keep pumping much longer.

We lost about 50 HUGE Oaks this spring from high winds because the roots were so shallow from no rain. It breaks my heart to loose them. They have been around a long time.

Hay is scarce and corn crops are stunted. Food will be going way up again. This is happening all over the country. Everybody will be paying more for what does make it to our shelves.

With our little shower the temperature went down over 20 degrees in 10 minutes. WOW! High today 102.

I will never complain about winter again!!!!