The Drought Prevails

[judy]

It has rained almost every day up here. I wish we could share it with you!!!

[Marilyn]

Oh, wow, Judy. Wish you could share, too. Still no rain. They keep teasing us that thunderstorms are in the forecast, but they don't materialize. It was over 100 yesterday. Any grass that is not watered is brown and crispy if there's even anything there anymore.

They've been mowing the highway right of ways just to knock down the tall skinny grasses and weeds that did grow from the little rain we received, and the dust stirred up by the mowers makes such a cloud. I hate driving through them.

The farmers are harvesting what they can of the crops that were planted at just the right time to benefit from the little bit of rain. The harvest is way down, but they are getting what the can out of it. I think some of the soybeans faired the best from what I'm hearing. Corn was not good at all.

[Tiramisu]

Marilyn, I was watching the radar, hoping you'd get some rain last night. We got 1/4" yesterday! My sister lives 200 miles east (in Louisiana) and she's had rain almost every day for over a week.

[Janet]

We've had rain here in Indiana. I wish I could send some your way. Right now at 8:45 a.m., it's foggy, 66 degrees and very moist out. It lightly rained here, but southern Indiana got some good rain.

The Frankfort Hotdog Festival is this weekend and it shows rain. Usually it's so hot and humid you can't stand to go.

I'm really missing the sunshine.