Ugh, rain.

[Miss Z]

Ugh, I really hate rain too, Alyssa! That's so annoying that your pool is all murky now, they can be such a nightmare to clean out. We've had an awful summer so far, we've had inches of rain on the garden and storms at least twice every week since mid-June. We even had hail the other day! I don't know what's happening to summer. At least it's sunny here right now, for the moment.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Looks like a bad storm. Glad everyone's alright.

You can send some rain this way if you want! Today is the first time it's rained in a while, it's been soooo hot and dry here. Please, I'll take some cold, refreshing rain and some lovely cloudy weather!

[Vela]

Yeah I hear you Jill, but no rain here. I wish. We are in a bad way =/

News report today:

West Under Highest Wildfire Alert with 23 uncontained large fires or fire complexes in Nevada, Utah and Idaho, there aren't enough contractor-supplied helicopters to go around. About 15,000 U.S. firefighters were already battling nearly 70 fires bigger than 100 acres in 12 states. The level was raised as dry lightning blasted and sparked dozens of new blazes in the West, including more than 1,000 new fires since Monday, Eardley said.

People are losing their homes and livelihoods and all of us with livestock this winter are in big trouble, we are losing and have lost most of our hay supply in the western US to feed cattle and horses and other animals.