Rain

Rain...

Finally getting a little of it this morning. We got about an hour of a shower Sunday evening and now it is raining a little more this morning. It is not so much in inches as it is in our spirits that this will measured.

We have had a heat wave the last 4 weeks now with over 90 degrees every day. That is not common for us here and has set new records for the length of such highs. It looks as though this will continue through Saturday with several days topping 100 degrees and very high humidity.

It has been and will continue to be hard for us here throughout the Fall and Winter. The best we can hope for now are enough rains to revive the pastures and soybeans enough to get us through til next year. This is going to be a hard year through late next Spring because of this drought. I hope we don't have a repeat next year. Many of us won't survive it farming if we do. We are only hanging on by hopes and prayers now and another year like this one will see us done.

But today we have rain, so there is some hope in that...