Averages

Looks like a rainy weekend coming up.  We will probably have a series of them now, since we need to make up our average rainfall for the year.  As several farmers around the country have told me, the averages are becoming more and more deceiving, as long interavals of drought are punctuated with torrential rain that runs off the baked soil.  So it will be a wet fall, which will at least rebuild the subsoil moisture for next year.  Unfortunately, the customers at the farmers' market on Saturday are usually not in a buying mood in rainy, cool weather.  so the leftovers will be substatial.  It all comes down to making the averages.