Rhythm of the falling rain

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:33 am

For several years I have stood at the front door dreaming of having a shed of some sort where I could sit and listen to the rhythm of the rain on the roof and watch my garden soaking it up. Now with my new bloom house, I have that place and today it rained.

The rain started here just a tad after Amanda and I got home from the grocery store and had the bags in the house. I got the perishables in the fridge and/or freezer, grabbed a glass of wine and headed out to my bloom house. I have a nice comfy wicker chair with a flowery cushion just waiting for days like this.
I sat out there listening to the rain on the plastic house, almost as nice a sound as on a tin roof.

I sat out there for about 2 and a half hours, looking at the way the rain makes the brown of the tree limbs and trunks a richer brown and the green of the new leaves a more vibrant green. Only coming in a couple of times when it eased up a bit,for more wine and some potato chips. Rambo joined me for a few minutes once he realized that the rain couldn't get him in there.

Came back into the house about 7 and of course I was closing up the 'door' of my shed when the rain was coming down the hardest. My back got soaked and I loved every drop of it.

It has eased up to a steady, easy rain now...there is 1.25 inches in the really large rain gauge out back and the weather radar shows more coming tonight. Should be even more until sometime tomorrow afternoon.

This in no way diminishes the drought, this is month 23 of that and the lakes where the cities get thier water are still 5-15 feet below normal. And I am so afraid we are in for another hot, dry summer like last year...but for now I am reveling in today.

The whinning about the heat and drought starts later.

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Gardenstew wrote on Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:48 am:

Are you sure you weren't a duck in a previous life Toni? :) I'm definitely with you 100% on the sound of rain. Love it!

cajunbelle wrote on Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:54 am:

I do miss a tin roof. I love the rain too. We lived in a 110 year old house when we first moved to French Settlement, it had a porch all the way across the front and the back. The front porch was my favorite place during a rain storm.

eileen wrote on Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:31 am:

I used to sit in our shed and watch thunderstorms and listen to rain or, even better, hail. Sadly, Ian has now filled it to capacity with all his rubbish. (Oops - useful and necessary man things.) LOL
Now if I want to listen to the rain I have to stand at the back door. Sadly just not the same somehow. SIGH.

CritterPainter wrote on Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:43 am:

It's always seemed nutty to me that Washingtonians don't have more of an affection for porches. Then again, porches rot rather quickly up here.
You really need to come visit, it's been raining steadily for days and even when it's kinda cold I often fling open the windows to listen to it. Nope, I don't have a porch, but I can dream can't I?

glendann wrote on Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:05 am:

It started pouring down here about 9:30 pm and It was still coming down when I got home.I went to check the gage it shows to be 2 1/2
inches.It sure sounds like more on the way.I was sitting in my little guard shack ducking when the lightning was flashing.Enjoy it toni as we needed it but not near like ya'll did.We had about 7 inches not to
long ago.