Big storm coming in on the base formerly known as Fort Hood.

More rain this early morning, currently 61F, not too hard coming down, but it's so wet out there and not able to do much for gardening, or even walking back through the lot next doors weed growth to toss the garbage in the dumpster without getting your feet and lower legs soaked from wet grasses.

Still overcast and may get more rain. The red river is full, so the wichita river is going down quite slowly from up at flood stages. Some roads have had wash out areas, some with a drop of more than a foot, making it a mess. Our biggest park that has the reconstructed falls on the little wichita river, flooded and closed, along with the wildlife area abutting it and bordered by much used train tracks that carry coal and very heavy loads. I wonder how the rail beds are holding up.

The wildlife area has a lot of wild things in there- deer, pigs, snakes, armadillos and more. Pretty sure many people are seeing animals show up much closer than normal due to the flooding. And the darn skeeters are out in force already have had two bites on my legs, scratch, scratch, scratch, PIC "are you scratching?", me, "No!" (just rubbing with my fingernails!!). Health dept. already warning about skeeters and offering free mosquito dunks as spraying in the rain is no use.

Overall, even with the flooding and attendant woes, better to have water than not. That last drought went on long enough, trees were growing in the drinking water lakes way off the original shorelines.

It's been sunny but very windy here for the past two days.
This morning there's a bird in my chimney.
Need to open window, create some updraft.

Piles of rain, judging by the look of the yard, a little north of two inches. Intense lightning in wee hours. Still raining lightly. Lightning mostly moved offshore. Wind shifting to the north. Nothing extreme as far as wind, no hail that I heard. Could have been worse. Rain is welcomed.

Dry air set to filter in over next two or three days. More relatively cool nights ahead. Yea.

I put a little cottonseed meal on two strips of okra yesterday and a little around each tomato plant. Ran out of the meal. Put some Langbeinite around the tomatoes. I need to push the plants a little more so that they flower abundantly over the next few weeks to finish the setting season strong. The potassium, magnesium and sulfur from the langbeinite should help to ensure high fruit quality. I’ll keep adding doses of TTF as needed. I backed off the nitrogen inputs in the second half of April to tone down the BER and I think that helped as compared to last year, but it’s time to get one more good flush of fruit before the summer heat sets in.

Yes, 2.5 inches, ~63 mm of rain.

Cooled off into the 60s, maybe 19°C.

I’ll see how the additional cottonburr mulch layer this year handles all the moisture at once. Will the tomatoes split? Nothing on the splitting front so far. Let’s hope for not too much sunshine and warmth later today.

Several days of rain, here, and the worms are coming up for air.

Daughter’s coworker’s home in town burned up after a lightning strike. Firefighters said good thing they weren’t home at the time as it would have been fatal. Lightning hit gas line upstairs above bedroom and the bedroom was almost instantly incinerated. Lightning hit in middle of the night, but the couple was out of town. One block over from our old home.

Dry today, some clouds and sunny, nice low breeze. baby plants are getting some much needed sun and getting adjusted more. Potato and another seed order ( don't tell PIC !!) are due to come in today, so a late start on some potatoes, but both are fingerlings and will be in a shadier area. Nice thing about half barrels, they can be shifted around if need be. Supposed to be dry for the next ten days or so.

The streets that were flooded are opened now, park is still full of water but like the streams and river, slowly easing back down from flood. Local government is keeping us in drought stage 1 controls, which I m happy to read. Just because there is a surplus of water at the moment doesn't mean in 3 months it'll be the same. Wasting water, to me, is a sin, Ha!

Looking forward to the temps being pleasent in the 70's and dry enough to play with things outside again. I need to get my hands dirty to increase my joy.

We have a frost advisory overnight! (Expletive deleted) frost! PA was pushing me today to maybe plant the food pantry garden a bit early this year. I sent him the warning. He’s a bit down in the mouth but we have no control over the weather. Technically we could still get snow Perhaps in a week or so but not this weekend! Ugh.

Well, hallelujah! We're finally getting rain, a nice slow 3/4" affair so far that's sinking in nicely. Best thing that could happen for the beans, corn and cukes that have been planted in the last two days.

Spectacular, air temperature 78° Dewpoint 63°. Same plan for tomorrow. Then the warmth ramps up into the high 80s all next week into the next.

Growing season is actually here. Next week lows are all low 60s, so hopefully soil temp is enough for the cucumber and pepper seedlings to start growing, they were basically on pause for two weeks. I guess I should have brought them inside, but didn't felt like it.