The Reign of the Rain

It's been quite nice the past few weeks to be getting some regular rain. It's been nice to hear the rain, and to be able to nap in the afternoon to the sound of the falling rain. I don't profess to understant meteorology, but I watched with amazement time and time again this past summer as big storms headed our way and then parted like the Red Sea and went right around Bastrop proper, and in many cases, the county.

Old timers say it's always been that way, and many attribute it to the fact that Bastrop proper is in a river valley. I've been in other parts of the county where it was just raining like all get out a few times last summer as big storms rolled in, but nary a drop hit Bastrop. I think last spring and summer might hold the record for having had days that looked like rain but that never did the rain fall.

In any event, I hope the aquifers are being charged and that lakes, ponds, tanks, creeks and rivers are starting to be full again.

Have you been enjoying the rain? How is your yard doing?