quasar's Blog

It's finally raining today.....has been about 10 days since we have had any substantial precipitation.   

Started raining about 1:15 and I was so overjoyed that I went out to the garden to celebrate with the plants,  got kinda wet. 

It has been very dry here for the past couple of months and for anyone who has lived in the Upper Ohio Valley you know that May and June can be very wet months and usually are,  not this year. 

I don't know of anything more frustrating to a gardener that lack of rain.  It seems like no matter how much you water you just can't generate the same results as mother nature. 

Last evening was very frustrating as I sat here with the Weather Channel radar on watching a major storm system miss us my just a few miles.  The county below us was getting soaked and we were left high and dry.

Does anyone one else monitor the Weather Channel radar like I do....my wife says I am obsessive about it.    I do the same thing in the winter time checking for snow storms....maybe I need to get a life....I think I may be a frustrated weather man wanna bee.

At any rate we did get quite a bit of rain today and it looks like there may be more on the way.....(I just checked the radar...again!)

I am rained out of the garden today but have plenty to do in the house.

I did pick some Swiss chard today, (see pictures).  Tomorrow I may share how I like to prepare this versatile green. 

Thanks for those who have welcomed me to Garden Guides,  I think I am among friends. 

God bless!...and thank you God for the rain.