Well, once again it was an extremely dry August. There was no significant rain for the first several weeks of the month, and coming on the heels of a dry July it spelled the end for a number of my landscape plants.

However, things did change toward the end of the month. Just before I returned home from Australia we had a rather torrential downpour, with over 2.5 inches of ran in the span of a little over an hour and over 4.5 inches for the day.

This caused quite a bit of runoff on the farm but the rain was welcome.

This was followed this weekend by Tropical Storm Hanna, which provided another couple of inches of rain.

I am certain that my rain gauge is not all that accurate and that it measures low (the weather reports showed 4 inches of rain in our area due to Hanna but I measured closer to 2.5 inches) so we have had quite a bit of precipitation. In fact, it appears that the lingering drought conditions may be over (the latest drought map at the time of this writing was from September 2nd). I sure hope so but I’ll continue to hold my breath until we have a nice surplus.