Don't trust the weatherman to get the water to your rose (sung to "Subterranean Homesick Blues")

All this week we have been promised a chance of showers, and yesterday a line of thunderstorms was going to bring us rain and relieve the heat.

I watered anyway. From Sunday to Friday, whenever one of us was home and awake, the sprinkler was running. We got an inch of water on the entire property. It was parched.

If I were an optimist, I would have stopped watering when I heard the forecast. But I am not and I didn't.

Whenever I have depended on forecast rain to bring needed moisture to the garden, the rain has missed us.

So, it is time to haul out the hoses. Forget the lawn. Hit the vegetables and newly planted perennials and shrubs. Our lawn picked up some of the sprinking, but it was a side benefit.

Now I will start at the beginning and water it all again.

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