Waiting with baited breath to hear a response. Sure hope/wish they got at least a drenching downpour.

YES!
A little Monday night;
A little more Tuesday night;
And a lot more last night, plus temps dropped 40+ degrees!
It rained most of the day today and temps stayed in the low 70s to low 80s.

The rain and much cooler temps are so awesome. My plants and flowers are already responding. There are actually new leaves coming out on things and I spotted several roses today with new flower buds. Some plants are reemerging that had completely died to the ground and disappeared. That is so wild to see them start to recover so quickly - literally overnight!

Four days ago, the entire countryside around here was brown and looked dead or burnt. After two days with just a bit cooler temps (lower 100s)and just a bit of rain, I could see the grasses beginning to green up. After the third shower and continuing through most of today and the temps down 40 degrees, it is greening up almost exponentially - so fast you wouldn't believe!
What a blessing. I hope this continues.

I also hope things settle down to much improved weather conditions for everyone. This has been one year of absolute hell all around the world for nearly everyone, in one form or another, hasn't it? So many more weather related deaths this year, not only here in the States, but all around the globe!

Thank you for asking Kay and thank you too "gardenweed".
((HUGS))
~Annie

Hallellujah!!! That's about the BEST news I've read on these forums in a very, very l-o-n-g time!! I'm so happy for you & everyone else around you. Last year not a drop of rain fell here in tiny Somers, CT from the first of June until the second week of October. There wasn't even a thunderstorm to bring a shower of rain. T-storms raged all around us but every one of them went past without blessing us with so much as a sprinkle. That's never happened before and it wouldn't bother me in the least if it never happens again in my lifetime.

Sure hope you had barrels & buckets out to catch as much as possible!!

That is absolutely wonderful Annie!

I was looking at showers all around me (For some reason my areas has been the hole in the doughnut with rain all around but not here) when I saw rain over a good part of Oklahoma and some in north Texas. I knew your area had been hoit so hard, and I was so happy that it looked like you had received some. that is just wonderful news.
kay

That is really great news. So glad you got lots of rain. Now to hope that you keep getting rain the rest of the season.

Annie finally some rain, so glad you got through that wind storm safely. It really is amazing how quickly plants recover after a good rain. Doing the happy dance for you, sister friend :).

Annette

It rained again Thursday night when I went to bed and it was raining again when I woke up the next morning. :)
The temps went up a bit today, but I'll take these 90+s over 113+ any day!
It rained again last night too with some thunderstorms. Lots of lightening, which is good because it recharges the earth. (Seriously)
You have to watch for hail and tornadoes, but I'll deal with it. You can't have ice cream without the ice, I always say, and in Oklahoma more often than not, rain comes with some kind of damaging winds. I'm ready. I have a basement.

Yesterday I discovered something that tells just how bad this summer has been. I actually lost several huge Spirea bushes. They look like they have been through a fire. You know it's bad when Spirea kicks the bucket.

But everything is looking up. Flowers beginning to bloom again. I saw a Sphinx moth yesterday - first one since May! She was happily sipping nectar from the Fanick phlox.
Roses are budding and life coming back to the garden.

I have been resting most of the week. I didn't realize how exhausted I was. Yesterday and this morning I have been cleaning in the house for the first time all summer - I mean deep cleaning. It feels and smells so nice in here. Aahhhh...It's so nice to get back to living again.

Thanks for checking on me. I feel so loved!

~Annie

That rain is now here! :-) Been raining all day with temps in the 70s. Wonderful relief for the garden and for people!

Cameron

Isn't it just too wonderful!
I'm so glad for you Cameron!

My sincere wishes that everyone else who is suffering with weather troubles will soon see the end of it.

~Annie

Where's my rain? :^(

It is all around us, even in NE Mexico, but that d@@%# heat cap won't move.

Kathy

Cameron - could you push that rain a little southeast of Raleigh - we got a very brief sprinkle - didn't even chase me inside - temps were cooler and working outside was bearable but we could still use a good tropical soaking

Annie - so glad you and the others in OK and northern Texas got some decent rain - it has definitely been a trying summer for many of us but I have to believe God knows what he is doing .....

Lynne

Annie,
I think I look at the weather programs just to listen to the weatherman predict "just about everyone will get a decent shower today", knowing I am generally in the dry hole of that doughnut, with rain all around me and none here.

But even though it seems very hot (no rain but a very high humidity, so it steams you instead of baking you), we haven't had the horrendous temps that you Okies and Texans have had. Well except for a couple of weeks in June (of all months).

Once again, I am happy for all of the rain you are finally getting. It is so wonderful in the garden.
kay

It got up to 95 today and a bit humid, but that is 10 degrees cooler than it has been , and boy howdy, that really makes a difference.

It's funny the pockets of rain in each state. My daughter lives in Charlotte and she has been getting rain every week.
Today was our first day in a week to not get rain. It was a bit humid, but not bad. I'll take that over the dry furnace heat any day. I watered a little, mostly the potted stuff, and a few newly transplanted things, but didn't need to stand there and water for hours and hours or set the sprinkler to run all day and half the night. (Our electric bill was out of this world!) The cooler temps and some good rain is a God-send, for certain. I caught some rain in the two rain barrels for watering the new plants and for watering-in things I move to new locations.

You just wouldn't believe the plants that came back up from the dead (like Lazarus!) and the ones I cut way back that are growing new leaves and getting ready to bloom again. The White Garden is filling in fast! I set the new white Abelia bush, which is in full bloom, back and between the two dwarf Gardenias, but behind the white Phlox. It looks like it has always been there. The Abelia smells sooooo sweet. It is so very lovely. I've wanted one for years. Blessings on those Mennonite folks for selling me that BIG plant for a price I could afford, or I still wouldn't have one. :)

DH was gone all week - up in St. Louis - We had planned for the weekend to go work on the old house we are tearing down, but we both just enjoyed sitting together on the couch watching TV. He didn't say anything about going over there and I didn't say anything either. We just sat there and enjoyed the coolness and quiet and watched the BBC production of "Planet Earth" on our DVR. It was so nice to not have to do anything all morning and spend some time laughing together.

I moved one of my Azaleas this afternoon over into a better location and near another azalea. It looks great there and will be a better place for it in the event we see this kind of weather again, and we probably will. It's under one of the Japanese Pines where it gets a little sun but midday and afternoon filtered shade from the pine and a Chaste Tree. The soil is nice and it's acid and deeper there. Because of the slope, I set big rocks on the lower end to hold the soil and that looks good too. I'm quite pleased with the results. Sure is nice to work out in cooler temps. That's all I did in the garden today and I enjoyed it - once again.