Sudden Rain

Sunrise Over a Dry Hayfield

Farmers have been scrambling to get their first cutting hay in the last week and half. We have had unbelievable rainfall amounts this year, but even so, it was starting to get a bit parched. It doesn't take long, when the temps are in the 90s and humidity is 700 percent. Or so.

Rain Blowing in the Back Door

The other night as I pulled in the driveway, home from work, I was mentally deciding what I needed to get done first. I had noticed a small benign looking cloud forming in the East, but we weren't suppose to get any storms. When I get home, I always pen up Eddie and Sue, the Chicken Nursing Home residents first. Then I let Boone out in the yard. Since I had drained his pool the day before, getting it rinsed out and filled was top priority, so the big guy could cool off. While I was rinsing the pool, it started to sprinkle. Well, I figured it wasn't going to amount to much, but I decided I better go out near the garage and cover up my rider mower with a tarp, just in case. Afterward, I dashed to the house, as the 'sprinkles' were starting in earnest.

Watching the Show Outside My Window

By the time I sat down to supper, the rain started pouring down. It sounded like some hail mixed in too. Then the wind picked up and was swirling and blowing rain everywhere. I ran from window, to back door to hallway, trying to shut off fans, close doors and generally keep the rain from blowing into the house or cause the fan to electrocute someone. It came in every direction in the space of about 10 minutes. No damage, besides the flower and tomato plants being sprawled out on the ground. Most of them have recovered.


The rain was much needed although unexpected. We got close to 3/4 an inch and have gotten close to another inch over the last few days. The sun was in and out of the clouds making everything glimmer and glisten.....

Even my Muck Boots.....

And just as I had begun to suspect, the Pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow is.... hay!