Silly..doncha know you have to wash your car to get it to rain!!

I've been leaving the car windows down overnight and leaving metal tools about the yard thinking that the rain gods will notice. So far, nada.

Went to the mts. today, where they had a nice shower, complete with small hail. It made me so jealous to have to return to the dry Piedmont. Our small lake is down over an inch, and I think I heard something on the radio about Cary beginning to impose restrictions. If we don't have rain soon, Greensboro will begin to curtail useage. I have stopped buying and planting out things as I can still water the ones in pots near the house with the rain barrel water...but that will not last forever! Can't be a gardener without water.

Ha, I've left my wheelbarrow out with tools in it. The rain gods must be asleep.

Carla

I had a graduation party in the garden last weekend and was sure that would bring on the rain....are the rain gods on vacation?

Hey we got a decent soaking tonight here in lower Stokes county! I am so happy, and the veggies all look very happy too! Garden got a good soaking. God knows my flowers needed it, we have been watering the veggies but I have to say I have been neglecting the flowers.

Yippee, rain! We have an advantage here in the foothills, we get some of the storms that fringe in VA and creep over the border, we are so close I often listen the the Martinsville radio station, their forecasts are somewhat more accurate for our area.

Hope you all get some water from Heaven soon.

Susan

Dottie, I know about the car washing thing, but my understanding is that one must wash one's car then take it out on rain-slicked roads for a good mud rinse ..... and given the price of gas that joyride just wasn't in the cards!

We got a teaser the other night, not enough to even register in the rain gauge. but the thunder brought back memories of times long past - i.e. real rainstorms :o(

I have no lawn area, thank goodness, and water by hand (to ten or fifteen count at the base of each plant/shrub 'bout once a week). Water restrictions have never affected or bothered me - hope this year is the same. I don't overdo.

What does bother me is that water conservaion should be practiced by all, all the time - not just to make good press copy. As much as I love seeing homes w/rolling, lush lawns, they are ecologically soooooo unsound.

Off my soapbox now ......

I think the Rain Gods are on vacation.

The plants in my garden areas aren't suffering much because I've been watering them. And it's gettin' old, let me tell ya. I have so many plants that I've grown from seed and they're not to the flowering stage just yet, so they need the water. My lawn however...HA! What lawn? I've got dirt covered by a brown crunchy mat. The grass is on its' own....I don't have time for it.

We were hoping for a good rain this evening, as dark stormy-looking clouds rolled in just before sunset. But Mother Nature must have a sick sense of humor and the joke was on us...not a single drop fell : (

So I'll join you all in shakin' my rain stick.
RENEE

I drove through the most fabulous rainstorm yesterday on my way home from work (right around Archdale & High Point on Interstate 85) and was so hoping that it would be raining at my house, too, in Thomasville. But when I got home, it was still dry as a bone and dusty. The rain gods even teased me for a while with some thunder that seemed pretty close, getting my hopes up that I wouldn't have to drag my hose out again -- well, at least my car got a little cleaner and I won't have to wash it this weekend.