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Its still hot by any standard – mid 90’s here. But today they say will be the hottest day of the week, 99 degrees. We’ll see if it passes the triple digit mark.

The rest of the week is forecast to be a bit cooler, still hot but definitely cooler. For example tomorrow should be 95/71, then Friday 90/72. That mean in two days it could be 10 degrees cooler than today. We just have to make it through today.

Hopefully with this change in weather my yard and garden will begin returning to life. One of the websites around here, Austin Organic Gardeners, gives a weekly suggestion of what you can plant – both direct sow and transplant. And its begun making suggestions again. So hopefully this means it will be time to get our gardens back growing things.

Let’s hope!

Well we are actually getting cooler weather. Its not what I would call a cold front, more like just a slight cool down. We’ve even been getting some clouds, usually a bit later in the afternoon. And some areas have even gotten small short showers. They may be extremely localized showers. And they may be significant showers. But they don’t last long.

Today we got a few small sprinkles here at the house. Small sprinkles as in they weren’t enough to wet all the ground, just leave drop spots on the driveway.

But at least they are cooling down the area. Its 8:30pm and its down to 85 degrees. That may not sound like much but that’s down from 9pm and 90 degrees.

We’ll see how long this lasts. But at least it seems as if we will cool down enough to let plants grow and hopefully survive. The cool down will be good for gardens, at least I hope it will be.

Yup. We are hot and, well, just hot.

We have been hot. Most days have been high 90’s. We’ve hit 100 already, and today was 102 in the back yard. It’s now 10pm and 88 degrees outside. It does make walking my dog strange. He gets walked late, like 8:30pm, after the sun has gone down. Any earlier and its just too hot.

But the real question is how much hotter it is going to get later this summer.

So far my garden is still growing. But I have all the beds set up with drip watering. The drip heads are placed right at the base of the plant and it seems to be working well. Its keeping the water just where it needs to be. And that’s helping them to stay alive. But I don’t have much growing.

My cucumber is growing well, its big and lush. And I’ve already begun picking the cucumbers. I’ve also noticed my shishinto pepper plants have peppers on it. I have a bell pepper plant that is growing well, though I haven’t seen any fruit on it yet.

They have been warning of rain. And warning of rain. And mentioning rain.

And no rain yet.

Not only has there been no rain, the chances of rain keep diminishing. Put another way, don’t hold your breath waiting for rain to show up.

On the other hand, it looks like this weekend we just might make triple digits, I guess that’s something to look forward to. Or at least it’s notable, maybe. But as it stands, we have warm/hot weather, some breezes, some humidity. Right now, its 6pm and my back yard shows 88 degrees with 60% humidity. So I guess all I can say is same ole, same ole.

Welcome to Texas.

Last night we got rain again. It started late, around 11pm. We had a fairly heavy downpour. We actually got about one inch of rain in the first hour, then the rain slowed down. We also got a lot of wind. The wind was what alerted me to the change in weather. By morning time we had received 1.9″ of rain here at the house.

The rain made for some very interesting weather. We had a fairly warm day yesterday. But once the rain began the temperatures dropped to 60 degrees. It did warm up during today, but this evening we are back down to 60 degrees. It does made for some pleasant evening weather, I will admit. I was even able to walk my dog late in the day and found it cool. My dog liked it.

But now we have no more rain in the forecast until next week. We shall see what we get. But it was nice getting rain last night. We definitely need it.