relief

Temps in the 50s this morning feels practically arctic after the past week.  It's still dry, but the virtual certainty of thunderstorms over the area today should give us some relief from the dryness also.  I dug up the rest of the garlic and replanted the bed with lettuce and cabbages yesterday and the sub soil moisture is starting to go away.  Pretty soon even deep rooted plants will be scavenging for water.  You can see the corn starting to wilt in the intense afternoon sun.  Crops like potatoes need lots of water now in order to bulk up the crop under the hills, so as the old timers put it, an inch of rain now would be a "million dollar rain" simply because of the timing.  In my case its more like a few hundred dollar rain, but it would be just as welcome.