Cat's Garden in Austin, TX

Its Thursday and we've already have just over 3 inches of rain this week. The good news is we're also not likely to get any more rain until Sunday. Much as we need the rain, getting a respite from the rain will be nice. There's been a lot of flooding, creeks are flowing a bit much, earlier this week there were even school closings due to the rain. But the lakes are pretty much full or full. Lake Travis was 102% full on Wednesday, and Lake Buchanan 93%. And Lake Buchanan is still rising. So its been good to have the rain and fill the lakes. And of course the garden is growing gangbusters. Everything is growing. Its green and lush. And the other nice thing about the weather is it hasn't been real hot. Normally we would be warmer, but with this rain we have slightly cooler weather. Its still high 70's, with nights in the mid to high 50's. But the next couple of days should warm into the low 80's. But at least its not any warmer than that. 

  It gets no fresher than this. Its swiss chard, three or four kinds of lettuce, green beans, peas, snow peas, dill, spinach, and fresh green onion tops. And there's more growing outside. Could be a few things I missed in the list. But its all fresh from the garden. Good salad.

Okay, the rain came in at 1.45 inches last night, and .14 today. So just over 1-1/2 inches of rain. We have happy plants. Though we do have corn that is blown over. So we did get wind with the rain last night. But we should be clear skies the next couple of nights. Then we just might get rain again this weekend. We'll see.

Weather had said we would get rain. We've been waiting all day for it. at about 10:30 pm it finally arrived. In the 15 minutes or so its been raining, less than half an hour, we've had over 1.25 inches of rain and it is still coming down outside. We'll see what it shows in the morning. But we finally got  rain.

We have artichokes! The other plant is smaller but it has two artichokes on it. I guess it was worth it to plant them and wait.

Yesterday we hit 82 degrees outside. Today it has dropped to 50, we're hoping to make 60. We started with rain around 5:20 AM. I know because it woke me - a bit of lightning and thunder. And so far we've had about 1/3 inch of rain (about noon here). The weather forecast says tomorrow should be sunny and around 70. We'll see. At least the plants are happy. I'd go take some pictures, but its wet and drizzly outside.

Happy Easter (yes a day early). Here's a shot of my irises and some bluebonnets.