I think this is my favorite link on rainy days … I can see the storms creeping up on us and pinpoint exactly my chances of getting from A to B and C without an umbrella.

It’s amazing how much rain we’ve got this year compared to last; no wildfires, but the lake still isn’t full. And the rain is fast and furious; after a 30-minute downpour the other day, I dug up bare spots in my variegated lawn to seed them with grass plugs.

But the ground wasn’t really all that wet. Despite my frequent aerating of the lawn, nothing was soaking in. If the rain doesn’t soak in, the roots don’t go down, the water doesn’t have any place to go. Cycle of life and why I need rain barrels. But I did dig up a few more reasons why my lawn is so crappy: construction litter. I’ve dug up nails, concrete block chunks, pipes, wires, and now broken roof tiles. Augh! This is not how I wanted to spend my summer, digging up two inches of sod-dirt to a layer of garbage and then the sand they poured on the lot when they graded it.

Hopefully, the patches will take, we’ll get enough rain that I can naturally keep the lawn alive enough and green enough, but not enough to wreck our summer adventures with all of our cousins, mostly coming in for a few landings for about half the summer. I’ll really need my swimsuit-organization hooks all over the tub for that.

Any special plans for the summer? Picnics? Camp? Making your own adventures ala Remember Me to Harold Square?

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