We woke to a gray sky. That’s not necessarily unusual. Sometimes we wake up early enough that the sun is just beginning to lighten the sky to the east outside our window. That’s what we were thinking at first. Then we got up and Michael made coffee while I got the dogs their morning snack and fed the cats.

After filling the pool more than half a foot,
we still have a full cistern. Yeah!

I was out on the west porch where the new deck is, and it was actually foggy. There was a very light drizzle in the air, not even enough to disturb the surface of the pool. We joked about the fact that yesterday we finally got around to water- sealing the new deck. The funny thing about that is the directions say not to apply it if rain is forecast in the next 24 hours. Our weather forecasts are never right anyway, so we rarely pay attention, and I don’t recall hearing anything about rain coming, so we sealed away. The sun is usually so hot and things dry so quickly that we didn’t worry. It soaked right into the wood and by the time the rain came, it was working. The rain water was beading up.

And it POURED. Torrentially. For most of the day. With thunder and lightening at night. Lovely!

We really could have used it last week, but it’s still okay to have it now. All the black fields and hillsides will be green again in no time.

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