We had more rain Tuesday. It started sprinkling around 9 or 10 am, and was raining hard by the time we left for our regular Wednesday lunch of huevos rancheros. Getting into the car was a powerful reminder of why we have a garage and a rude awakening about what happens when the garage is so full of stored junk and working spaces that we can’t park in it.
The rain tapered off early in the afternoon. By the time it was over our gauge had recorded 0.88 inches. That makes a total of 1.88 inches this week, the first significant rain we have had on the mountain in more than four months.
This rain came faster and harder than the rain we had the day before. I had managed to spread more wheat straw around the house, but the runoff was strong enough to wash a deep rut in the front yard. There are several other places that will need some work to prevent erosion. That will have to wait for dry weather, which might not come soon. There is a chance of rain almost every day next week. Maybe the dry pattern has finally changed.
Our Tuesday was dry but it rained all day yesterday – over 4 inches. We should get more early next week. It won’t be enough to catch us up, but it should help with the fires.
Good news, Mark (but not about the rill in the yard).
Karen — Four inches is a lot. I’ll be that did help with the fires.
Scott — Yes, we really, really need the rain. I’m not sure what I’m going to do about the erosion in the front. I need to do some serious grading, but it will have to be done by hand — I can’t get heavy equipment on the leach field, and our front yard is our leach field.