{"id":413,"date":"2009-09-11T09:48:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T15:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2009-09-11T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T15:48:47","slug":"wetness-falls-from-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Wetness Falls from the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-414\" title=\"rainview125\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/rainview125.jpg\" alt=\"rainview125\" width=\"310\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/rainview125.jpg 310w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/rainview125-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I woke to rain several times last night&#8211;it paused for an hour or two this morning, when we made it outside to check the gauges near the house (1.3 inches at that point) and walk out to the near meadow (puddle behind the #3 gabion.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then it started again.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->From the front porch, here&#8217;s water coming off the near side of the carport:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-415\" title=\"carport-SEtank123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/carport-SEtank123.jpg\" alt=\"carport-SEtank123\" width=\"207\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/carport-SEtank123.jpg 207w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/carport-SEtank123-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a closer look:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-416\" title=\"carport-SEtank124\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/carport-SEtank124.jpg\" alt=\"carport-SEtank124\" width=\"207\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/carport-SEtank124.jpg 207w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/carport-SEtank124-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re planning to put a big tank there but hadn&#8217;t had it delivered yet (let alone installed.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We definitely need bigger tanks for the carport, but it&#8217;s not on really level ground.\u00a0 The sad looking sticks just this side of it are part of the fig tree that&#8217;s held on (but lost its figs) this year.<\/p>\n<p>Out the kitchen door, looking across the back yard, the lily pond is full to overflowing:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-417\" title=\"lilypond-overflow126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lilypond-overflow126.jpg\" alt=\"lilypond-overflow126\" width=\"302\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lilypond-overflow126.jpg 302w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lilypond-overflow126-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The surviving grass has turned green already.\u00a0\u00a0 When I was out in the near meadow, though it was not raining right then, I heard not one bird calling.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But the plants that were looking wilted are perking up; the grass is showing green at the bases and partway up the leaves.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s possible that plants that haven&#8217;t completely died yet may not die this year.<\/p>\n<p>We are grateful for the rain&#8230;and hoping for even more.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s still falling&#8230;hurray!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke to rain several times last night&#8211;it paused for an hour or two this morning, when we made it outside to check the gauges near the house (1.3 inches at that point) and walk out to the near meadow (puddle behind the #3 gabion.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then it started again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water","category-weather","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}