Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Rain
In every life a little rain must fall... it must... must fall... fall!!!!ugh...
A regular weather pattern up here on the southern slope of Mauna Loa has the clouds build up around 11am after a sunny morning. During the winter, these clouds should bring afternoon showers, but often they don't. The clouds just hang there, and then mysteriously dissipate.
So here I sit for the fourth day in a row, knowing that the plants need water, and desperate for it to come from the sky instead of the tank. Watering the farm with water brought up the hill by truck costs approximately $150, every time. Rain costs nothing.
The last time that nature and I played this game, two and a half weeks ago, I gave in and watered. Fourteen hours later it started to rain, and we received 3/10ths of an inch before it stopped. While 3/10ths of an inch was more than sufficient for the plants, it was not enough to replace the water in the tanks that was unnecessarily dumped on the ground.
So here I sit, at 11:30am, and the cloud is building up, and the wind is coming from the correct direction, and the barometric pressure is dropping, but if it doesn't start raining by 2pm, I'll have to water today. Even as I start hooking up the pump, I will start to feel drops. Then when I am about half way through the process, there will be a little shower, but that will blow away.
sigh... link | posted by Reese at 8:21 PM
1 Comments:
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commented:
so...you're becoming a weatherman, too!
You can have some of California's rain. Wait - I take that back...no you can't.
Much love to you and all the boys,
S- » Thursday, January 31, 2008 4:42:00 PM