Fall around the corner?

It is a cool morning, and the crickets and frogs are noisy; the air is cool and there is thunder nearby.  A line of storms to the south has brought the welcoming scent of rain!

A few days ago we got the first real rain here since April, and the 100+ temps seem to have broken.   74 degrees this morning with a slight breeze isn't bad at all!

From our backyard the rising sun over the low clouds made it look like the sun had decided to rise in the south for a change.  Pretty cool!

Next week rain is predicted all week long.  Let it come!

Sailing

So I did something new today.

For years we have wanted to go to the British Virgin Islands, but time, money and knowledge have not been there.

(Still not there...)

But today we took Brandon's new sailing dinghy out to Navarro Mills lake.  

The lake was low and the wind just over 5 knots, but we had a good time for the hour or so we stayed out.  

Maybe this is the first step to knowledge acquisition that will eventually get us to the islands!

Rain at Last!

It wasn't a long rain, but it was rain.  About 30 minutes worth and a total of about 1/2 inch.  

It came with a wind that blew some collected boxes around that were waiting for trash collection, but at this time nothing to complain about.  It had not rain any appreciable amount since April.  

The tanks remain low and undoubtably it will take more to start the grass to growing out of dormancy.  But NOAA is predicting a wetter than normal two weeks.  The Dome of Doom, high pressure ridge that prevented rain and turned us into a 3 digit degree pressure cooker has broken.

This morning the moisture generated a fog and cool temps.  For the first time I have been hearing happy crickets in the years making their sounds.  Hopefully this is the first of more precip to come!