By which I mean: wetter.
We received 0.15” of rain yesterday afternoon. We weren’t home then — I had my PT appointment in Los Lunas — so I don’t know how long it rained. But everything here at Happy Camp was definitely watered, and on the way in from town (where it had clearly rained a bunch!), there was water along the road and mud in the ditches, right until we turned onto Jumano Trail. So at least part of Phase 1 got more rain than our corner of Jumano Trail, and perhaps Phase 2 did, too.
It is raining again now, but the rain has just started coming down and is pretty light so far. However, we have a well-established rainy season going, at last.
The weather was starting to discourage me, which is why I have been so long between posts. How many times can I write that everyone else seems to be getting good soaking rains (the Manzanos & foothills, Tijeras, Edgewood, Albuquerque & Rio Rancho even), but we do not? Bah! Now we might be getting in on the action, as well.
We do not have any green grass yet, it has been that dry. This is the driest summer I’ve experienced here. As I think I have written before, the winter ’05-’06 was actually much drier than this past winter; scary dry: maybe an inch of snow in the entire winter, plus one light rain in May. But in 2006 the rains came hard and early, and that summer ended up setting records for the amount of rain we received. It was looking like Ireland around here! Flowers galore, many of which we rarely see because they need more moisture than we usually have. (Can you imagine being a flower seed, just sitting there for months or years and then springing up wildly when the rain comes? I really can’t, but I vaguely remember an E. E. Cummings poem on the topic.)
I’m still waiting for the 2 or 3 days in a row of constant clouds and frequent rain; you know, the period I whine about every summer, when for a moment I think we may be turning into Seattle. This year I would actually welcome that!