Rain Rain Go Away

I had hoped by now to be documenting a lot of our gardening projects but the truth is - we haven't been out doing much gardening at all yet this year! The last sunny day we had was last Friday and we spent all of Friday at the doctors for our two youngest children's check ups. The rest of the past two weeks has been very, very rainy.

Above, is a typical photo of our gutter downspout running into one of our dry river beds we created in our landscape. See ~ here's one of our dry river beds .... DRY! And here's one becoming, well, a river. Doing what it's supposed to do I suppose! This is one of my favorite things in our yard. Our picnic table. My husband built this two years ago. He poured concrete posts into the ground and bolted large beams across for the top. He placed these large stones to set our Fir slabs on top of for the benches. He filled in the ground around the table with peach colored silica sand. Nice to put your toes in - but not on a day like today.

At least we got a full rainbow out of the weather last night. Funny enough - the rainbow ended right in the pile of old cars at our neighbor's place. I tend to be pretty joyful by nature but the rainy weather really brings out the gloom in me so I try not to do much writing when the weather is wet for fear I might sound like an ungrateful, grumpy complainer and really, I have nothing to complain about and so much to be happy and thankful for and I guess the one good thing about the rain is I don't feel so guilty about staying inside at the computer and get lots of housework done!