[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning RD. The garden and lawn sure liked the rain we got last weekend. We had about 2.75” but need a lot more to catch up. We are over 20” behind for this year.

I think a lot of trees are going to die from the drought. I’ve noticed a number of cedar trees that are brown and the city has already cut some down.

I talked to my sister and BIL after they went to the farm last weekend. Almost all the stock tanks had dried up, but some caught a little water. Will have to restock fish when we get some heavy rain.

[rightly_dividing]

We have a lot of trees that died from the drought. Plus a storm blew in two weeks ago that had a small tornado with it that took out a number of trees. My neighbor had several trees twisted off. The county still has debris crews working the neighborhood everyday. We were blessed to have only a messy yard with lots of limbs and leaves, but a neighbor a few hundred yards away had an oak tree fall through their home and missed the mother and child by about 4ft.

[Racehorse]

The garden and lawn sure liked the rain we got last weekend. We had about 2.75" but need a lot more to catch up.

San Antonio's west side received a whopping 4.5 inches. The northwest side enjoyed 5 inches. The airport area had to limp along with a measly 3 inches. Usually, the north and east parts of the county get all the good stuff and we're left wondering why we're left out.

I collected 75 gallons of rain water. Now, I'm down to about 25 gallons and there is no rain in the near term forecast.

I probably wasted ten gallons trying to keep alive a bell pepper stem broken by storm winds. But, the thing was loaded with buds and young peppers, so I stuck it in the ground and have kept it saturated, supposing it might root like a cutting. It is definitely drooping, but still green with some kind of promise. How could I not try just to see what happens? :-)

R.