Yeah earlier today I was watching torrents of rain pour off the deck roof and remembering back to when breaks in a drought in summer of 87 or so were greeted with joy and the quick shoving of four galvanized ashcans under the deck eaves to collect rainwater for veggie gardens... and watching them fill up in a matter of minutes.
Now though it's alarming to see those rainfalls occur so often, at least in July, supposedly our driest month. I'll be pumping my cellar out after some storm by next week unless the pace slows down a little. Or as a kid down the road said, we're gonna have moss growing on the ferns! I already have moss growing on the stones under a downspout off the kitchen roof. More usually this time of year that's a nice dry place where grass a snake or two may like to hang out after sunset for awhile because it's still warm there. This year those guys are up atop the rocks alongside a raised flowerbed instead. It's the only set of rocks here that are pretty much guaranteed to dry out in half an hour after a storm.
