Addicted To Hoes

A Rarity - A May Yard Update

As I'm sitting here writing this at 3pm on May 13th, it's 65 degrees outside. We woke up this morning with a random little weather disturbance passing through. We've had so far today three chances of rain, none of which have amounted to much more than barely getting the ground wet, which is about the best you can expect in May or June.

The first wave of clouds came through first thing this morning, we got nothing from that but a little bit of wind. The second wave came through about mid morning when I was in the garage on the treadmill (9:32 mile today, woo hoo!), and that one brought more wind and a little rain.

The most promising chance was about an hour ago, a thunderstorm developed just west of here, but promptly collapsed just short of us, and we got a brief dust storm, lots of wind, and a little bit of spitty rain.

Here's a picture of that last storm from the west. You can see the rain coming out of the clouds.

Here are a couple of pictures of the storm gathering around the house. It was in the 60's until the clouds broke around noon, when the sun came out the temps shot up to around 85, and then this promptly rolled in, cooling it back off.

Here's the rogue little storm just under the E in PHOENIX. The two storms out to the west of the valley around Buckeye and Cave Creek actually dumped about a quarter of an inch a piece in those areas, according to the Maricopa County rainfall web site.

Finally, because I had nothing better to do this afternoon, here's a brief video of the storm collapsing. Off in the distance you can see the dirt getting kicked up from the storm falling apart to the southwest.

Moving right along, I've started accumulating rain barrels for this upcoming monsoon season. I had one wine barrel that I bought from Wal Mart a few years ago that was still in decent shape, and it's pictured here. The top of the other one collapsed, destroying the water tight seal.