Rain!!!!!

[sundog]

A beautiful summer storm has just started here in New Mexico.

For those of you who do not live in the desert, you do not know the beauty of rain until you live for extended periods without it.

I have my door open, listening to the water falling beyond the patio.

All of the lifeforms of the desert are being fed tonight. We have been in a drought, so this is a very welcome sound.

That's all :)

[King of New Orleans]

1. Desert-hugging hippy

:)

[sundog]

8. sand hugger will do -- not too wise to be a cactus hugger

:hi:

[MuseRider]

2. That is one reason

I do not live in the desert! Enjoy it. I love the rain and we have been in a drought until this summer and it is wonderful to have it broken. Smells good too.

[sundog]

5. yeah it smells so sweet

you can smell the sage

[Jack_Dawson]

3. I'm jealous - we won't see rain til November

Signed,

Southern California

[texas1928]

4. Push it east

It needs to rain here. It is hot and getting dry.

[Jim Warren]

6. Here too

Don't come by the lounge too often but saw your post on my way by the Latest page.

Just exactly when I saw your subject line, my wife came into the computer room and told me it is raining. No desert like drought here in my little part of New England but it has been VERY dry most of the summer so far with our precip average down about 6 or 7 inches from normal.

The rain is very welcome and I hope you enjoy your rain too.

[sundog]

7. gotta love it

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[UdoKier]

9. Here in SF, we're in the middle of the dry season...

It starts around May, and by June all the grass is yellow-brown. Continues until about Nov. 1. Seems so weird to me that a place that has thick fog every night is so parched.

I'm using the opportunity to re-do our tiny, scrubby backyard into a place the kids will want to play. It's a real bitch, sifting out all the rocks, redwood chips and glass that are mixed up in the soil. Today I also removed a way-too-big fig tree, a wid plum tree and a big mess of a bush. It's too small of a yard to really grow more than some grass and a few plantings right around the edeges, though I'm going to do a latticework with some wisteria along the back wall. The minute that gets overgrown at all it will be oppressive, so I'll have to keep it trimmed back carefully.

I used to live in El Paso, and I loved the summer storms. I especially love the smell of the creosote when it gets wet.