Rich Z

Rich, how severe was that storm front? Looks intense on radar.

Haven't been outside yet to check on anything, but the thunder woke me up several times. Once it sounded more like an explosion than thunder, so I remember waiting to see if the power went out, meaning a transformer blew nearby. I went to bed around 4 am, but the rain hadn't started by then. Not sure what time it actually was when it started.

Actually we needed the rain here. Been dry for months. We had a bit of rain on Monday, but it has been so dry that the moisture was sucked up almost immediately. I had to actually water Connie's tomato plants yesterday because they looked parched even after getting the rain on Monday.

Good thing about the storm is that I had an excuse to stay in bed this morning instead of going down to the squirrel blind to assassinate the bamboo chewers. It is still raining now and I hear thunder off in the distance, but once the rain stops I will need to get down to the blind, as I've noticed that the squirrels come our in force after a rain. Yesterday evening after I did a stint of squirrel patrol I closed the internal flaps in the blind anticipating the rain overnight, to try to keep too much rain from blowing in through the screens. Of course, it was pretty windy with the storm, as I heard some branches hit the roof, so it's possible I may have a pine tree limb right through the roof of the blind. I find limbs that have fallen from trees that can be impaled into the soil a good 12 inches or so. Sure would ruin my day to have one of them come through the roof of the blind while I am in it.