This year we’ve managed to have 1 or 2 days each week in which we get a fraction of an inch of rain. The plants are loving it. The landscape is lush and green. The consistent light rainfall is enough to sustain the vegetation indefinitely. However, the creeks are still bone dry and the Guadalupe …
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Rain
Everyone keeps saying we are forecasted to have a wet winter. The rivers are dry so we need the winter to be wet. We need to fill them again if we are to sustain life in this state. However, some are panicking because if the wet comes in the winter it will likely be in …
A Little More Rain
Things have been so busy lately at work and on the homestead i forgot to write about last month’s rain. We got two good storms. One dropped 1.5 inches of rain and the second one brought 2 inches. It was not enough to start the river flowing again. From what i understand it needs to …
It’s Raining Somewhere
Everyone here wants rain so badly. we see on the television, mudslides in california, historical flooding in new york…water filling the streets and spilling over the railing or down the stairs like a waterfall into the subway…just so much water, an overwhelming amount of water. Texans want that. We would give anything to be flooded …
Join me on a Spontaneous Quest to Find a Pop up Storm in the Hill Country.
It never did rain in Center Point that day. Im glad i took a detour to find the rain. Otherwise i never would have seen it.
A Taste of Rain
A tropical storm had made landfall in the gulf with 60 mph winds. It was disappointing because we have in the past had storms blow through here easily with 70 mph winds so we all knew, a hurricane it was not going to be. It just wasnt strong enough to bring anything inland. What it …
Emails from the Electric Company
The electric companies for mine and neighboring counties keep sending out daily emails asking us not to use the electricity until after 10 pm and in some cases midnight. Yesterday they requested we not use the electricity until 9 pm so some days the restriction is lifted early. There are so many excuses and equally …
Buzzards
Something is dead nearby. It is 111 degrees. Too hot to find out what. Into the house we go.
Stage 4
We have entered stage 4, critical water shortage conditions. There are only 5 stages in the system and stage 5 is titled “emergency”. I only use the water to wash clothes once a week, water the animals and myself in terms of consumption to stave off dehydration, and water the fruit trees between 8 pm …
The Creeks went Dry
I was headed to the dollar general down the road today when i noticed this zigzag line that curved around…it was a patch of tree tops that had turned brown surrounded by all the other green ones. It wasnt autumn yet. No cold weather had made these leaves turn. This meant the trees must have …