Rain

 Our minister prayed for rain last Sunday.  We need rain here where the ground and plants are bone dry.  I measured only 11 inches of rain during our last rainy season, November to April.  That’s only half our average rainfall.  No rain can be expected until November.  Thankfully it’s been a cool summer.  We put air conditioning in our house in early July and so far we’ve run it only a few days.  As summer ends and fall begins, I can only imagine rain but expect many hot dry days to come.  

In Tucson, it’s been a bountiful monsoon season this year.  Record rainfall has been recorded in S. Arizona.  This weekend as I was talking to my sister, a big monsoon rainstorm started and rain and hail poured over her house.  Looking at the video she sent, I could almost smell the rain in my parched California nose.  It rains in Michigan in the summer too, big thunderstorms mostly.  We’ve had trouble with a leaky roof in our new house and flooding in the basement of our old house.  

Here, this time of year, it’s at least two more months before we can expect rain.  It’s a long dry wait.