It's Raining

 For the first time in 2 weeks it's raining, a nice gentle,soaking rain. For the last 2 weeks it's been hot and dry here. When it's 95 degrees here, it's hot. Then you add the humidity and stuff starts to bake. I know it gets hotter in other places and the humidity is worse, but dang-it-all, it's been hot.The lawns are all burned brown and if people don't water their garden, they won't have one. A vegetable farmer on the hill behind me has been watering his whole farm. He hasn't got line enough to reach his pumpkin patch so he hauls tanks of water there. Once in the field, he can then run lines to water the pumpkins. I've been watering my garden twice a day. If I don't, the plants wilt and look like they will die. Wilted or dead plants don't grow much for me to pick and eat. As it started to rain, I could almost hear my garden take a sigh as it soaked up the rain. This rain is coming just in time to give my cucumbers a boost. They just started blooming so it shouldn't be long now. Everything is coming along well. The only complaint that I could have is that I'm not fast enough to keep up to the garden. But all in all, I'm not doing to bad at keeping up. I've already got more beans and more squash in the freezer than I had last year. My garden is doing just fine and I'm doing the best I can to keep up. So far, so good.