Praise God...we have rain

I know it is wonderful to have it everywhere else that has been blessed by yesterday and today, but we were missing out.......until around 11pm or later when it actually began to rain.

The Police called about 10pm to check a call from neighbours that someone had been flashing a torch in my windows.....could have only been my bedroom because a light came on as soon as they came near the porch and I went and checked......the screen door had not been shut so I locked it and was so glad as the police did not ID themselves very clearly. And even after opening the door I could not clearly see them or uniforms. But we went and checked the back yard and they were amazed at my security lights. They said we have never seen so many sensor lights and I said well old ladies who live alone cannot afford to be stupid... Just as well I admitted old age because they then checked it. Not sure if I have been asked date of birth before, so me thinks he was curious. Of course I was in nightie and grabbed a house dress over the top. So that was the mild excitement of the night.....and I have great neighbours......but my bedroom has a blind and heavy velvet curtains.......yes I know they are old fashioned but I put them in when we came here in 1980 and I still like them and know I tend to pull them over the blind as well so no light leaks out. Also I use my Ott light beside the bed and it is great to read with but does not show a lot of light.

But then it rained........and kept raining.......and even rained heavily enough for me to hear it on the gas flu. Cannot believe we must have had about 3 hours of good steady rain. I almost cried when I went out in the garden yesterday.

So God is good and Hoppers Crossing is still in His care. I must admit I have almost given up on earthly gardens and begun to imagine the ones in eternity.

We seem to have done it tougher this year than ever since we moved in.
Off to sleep in the rain. I just had to take a photo....

This time last year there is a photo in the blog and it is a glorious bed of impatiens but there was just not enough water this year. And even the ones on the porch had to be taken away this week as they were dying and I could not identify why. Just breaking off half way down the stems and no sign of bugs, no response to snail bait or other insect killers.

So they went and the porch was mopped today. Using the water in the bucket after the cleaning lady did the rest and I rinsed it with the water from the shower.