An Inch and a Half

We had almost a half an inch in our rain guage this morning and I had no idea it had rained during the night.  This was a wonderful surprise. The fields were very dry and now that the hay is safely put up in the barn we were praying for rain. Well that was only the beginning of the rain.  I was due at mom's at 8:00 am and scheduled until 1:00 pm except Fedi called to report Ruth, who was supposed to relieve me was in the ER at Methodist Hospital with extreme abdominal pain. That turned out to be a kidney stone and Ruth said it was worse than childbirth.  A big storm came rolling through around 10:00 am with two very close lightning strikes. The first one was on the North side of mom's house and the second one we thought might have hit Rachel's house. It didn't but it hit a tree next to her house and blew the bark off part of it. 

Rachel and David were sitting out on her porch when it happened and the sound wave of the thunder smashed into them and made their chests hurt. With this storm came a downpour of rain and that gave us another inch of rain.  I took the picture below, the rain was coming down so hard it wasn't easy to see across the lake.

As it was raining Diane came home instead of staying the night at Middle Grove and joined Karin and I at mom's for dinner then Rachel arrived so we had enough to play games for a bit. At 7:10 pm I headed home to feed the colt and tease mares. Oksana is now in her foal heat but not yet ready to be bred. I'll try her again in the morning.  The new guests coming in to the apartment tonight need an airbed as there are 5 of them. Anna's games were cancelled so she cleaned the apartment after the last night's renter and then got an airbed out for tonight's. Another booking came in for July 2nd-4th.  We have another storm coming through right now.  I walked down to check on the mares and got dumped on trying to get back to the house. The fields are not muddy so we they could use more rain and I'm thankful. Mom called this the million dollar rain. It will make a big difference on whether we get a good second cutting and the beans and corn growth will be amazing.