Month: April 2019

We got a day of rain, and we got 1.85 inches of rain. The plants are happy, everything is green, the grass is looking great – rain came in handy. The plants are so happy and growing, and loving their rain.

Now the bad news. We have more rain on its way next week. At this point the rain water storage tanks are full. So full that when I went to transfer water into them the water ended up flow out the top. And yet we have more rain on the way.

Right now the forecast says next Tuesday rain begins. Then it lasts for the 4-5 days following that. Of course, the chance is 50% for the entire time so who knows what we will get for rain.

We will wait and see what the weather brings.

Who knows what is going on with Texas weather. We have yet another storm due, tonight and probably tomorrow. The good news is by Thursday, today is Tuesday, the storm should be gone. But they’ve already issued flash flood warnings for the area. It does look like a strong storm line, and most of it will be north of us. It looks like Dallas and the Fort Worth area will get hit harder.

Our weather forecast says some of the thunder storms could be severe. But we’ll see what happens and who get that weather. We might, but then who knows.

On a different note, never be afraid of trying to grow from seed. I had put some seeds from an orange into a pot. Now you need to understand that this was not a grocery store orange. It was from a “home grown”, someone’s back yard orange tree. I put them in a pot on the patio probably last month. Well, I now have about 6 new small plants coming up. It looks like a lot of those little orange seeds have sprouted. It will be years before they produce, but nonetheless they have sprouted and I have seedlings. I will do my best to keep them alive and growing. I’ll keep you posted on how they are doing.

Rain, blowing rain, thunder, lightning, and if you’re in a different area of Texas, tornadoes. Its a weather wild ride. Yesterday was lovely, nice weather comfortable, high of 80.

As of right now (almost noon), Travis county has a severe thunderstorm watch until 3pm. Even though I’m in Hays, Travis county line is less than a mile from here.

As a side note, I took our puppies (boys) outside for their potty break during a rain break. Our tv dish has lost a part. I’ll keep that part safe and sound, but its actually blown so hart a part came down. We’ve had wind gusts up to 30 mph.

But the good news is most of the storm is well north of us. So that’s nice. And we won’t be looking at this storm for much longer today. It should be gone within a couple of hours. But if you are north of Austin, you probably will have this storm for a while. And the radar looks like areas in Mississippi and Louisiana will be dealing with this for a while.

But we still need the rain.

For the past two days we’ve had rain. Nothing fancy, just bouts of rain. We’ve had just about 3/4 inches today, and had about 1/2 inches yesterday. So not a lot of rain, but a nice rain. And we’ve needed it.

Its also left us cooler. Today was all of 67 degrees. But in good old Texas fashion, tomorrow is supposed to be 83.

Yup, gotta love Texas weather.