Good morning guys and welcome to Coverin’ the Bases!
Rain…lots of it today, so let’s take a few minutes and talk about…rain! It started early this morning, and has rained off and on, mostly on, all day. It’s continued up into the night, its 8:00 pm here now, and we’re getting a good shower as we speak.
It’s been exactly the kind of rain we needed, too. Long slow drizzles, broken up from time to time by heavy downpours, then back to drizzling once again. No rain has started standing or running off, all steady being soaked up by the ground! Absolutely perfect!
We’ve been awful dry here lately, and when it gets like this, I refer to it as being bone dry! Our garden soil was literally like a powder, and some of the little seedlings have burnt slap off at the ground. It has been really, really dry so far this year.
I walked off into the garden last week barefooted, and in just a second was coming back out, the bottoms of my feet “lit up!”
We’ve watered constantly just keeping the little fellers coming on, but you can water all you want, but once you get a rain, everything just busts out growing again! This simple act causes the pastures, trees, the yard, garden, literally everything looks as if it greens up almost instantly.
Today as an example, in between showers I took a look at everything, and it’s amazing how fresh and rejuvenated it all is. The little bean sprouts, corn, cucumbers, squash, eggplants and tomatoes look as if they’re growing right before our eyes, in the larger garden, all because of…rain!
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‘Ridin Out The Recession With Dub and Deb in “Miz Judi’s Kitchen’!
Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end. But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.
Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.
Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!
