Rain, Blessed Rain

It has been raining for the past 2 days here in Central Texas. We have needed it. And while it is 45 degrees and raining, miserable weather by some standards, I am happy to see it. I dumped about 2 inches from the horse feed buckets this morning. I got their blankets on last night so they are damp but toasty. I am sure they would like to be in the front pasture but that is closed in hopes that some grass will grow. I am tempted to go by some grass seed and put it down today, except that I have a sinus infection and feels like my head may explode at any moment.

I got some plants put in over the weekend so now they can have a nice drink and not get fried.

I am trying an orange tree and a lime tree. I have seen rather large citrus trees in the area. I planted ours near sprinkler heads and on the south side of the house. I am also going to put in a fig tree this weekend.

Our fruit tree totals will be this: 5 peach trees, 2 plum trees, 1 apricot, (not sure how many pecans survived the summer) one for sure, 1 pear tree, maybe 2 apple trees (again not sure if they survived the long hot summer, 1 fig, 1 orange tree, 1 lime tree and then 2 lemon trees in pots and one lime tree in a pot. I want kiddo to be able to pick fresh fruit as he grows up. The orange tree is right outside my office window. I am looking at it along with the sandbox, roadrunners, and happy birds playing in the rain.

Rain=Rain Lilies

One thing about Texas rain is that it brings out rain lilies. They have white and yellow. The yellow are my favorite. When I came home from work tonight, they were all over the front yard waving cheerily. How do they know when it has rained and not just the sprinkler going for hours?

The sprinkler guy was supposed to come last night and fix what he messed up last time. He is extremely handsome but full of excuses. I suspect he relies on his big brown eyes with the long eye lashes to get out of a jam or two. His excuse this time was that one of his managers banged up his knee with a shovel. Maybe so, but now he is coming out Thursday. If we had not had rain, I would have been pissed, no matter how cute his hair looks curling out from under his ball cap.

YAY RAIN!!

I woke up from my nap to the sound of heavy raindrops on the skylight. Plunk, plunk, platt! It was good to hear. I lay in bed listening for awhile as I tried to determine what time of day it was. Gatsby was whining on the stairs and I remembered that Daisy was outside in the rain. We went downstairs and outside to the porch. The rain let up a bit and Daisy had been hiding under the shrubs.

I let her in and Gatsby and I went outside to enjoy the rain. I decided to clean the tack/feed room. Gatsby, who is afraid of the weather followed me closely. As I knocked down the mud wasp nest and swept up the lizard eggs, the wind picked up. Really started blowing hard. Gatsby could not decide whether to stay or run back to the house. I let him go but shut the door and thought I would wait it out.

The lightning flashed and the thunder roared. I was so happy we have not had rain for so long. Neighbor Kellie was just saying this morning that it was strange to go through a whole summer without a thunderstorm. At the time I had hoped she had not jinxed us. I told her non-husband David to do a rain dance. He must have.

I dashed back to the house, getting thoroughly soaked. What a wonderful feeling! I laughed as I climbed the stairs to get into dry clothes.

Later I went to the porch to see the wind had rearranged the furniture. The rain even blew in on the screened porch to water the lime and lemon trees.

It is still raining two hours later.