When I got back from being away in June it looked as if Monsoon was upon us. But then it dried up again and got hot for a couple of weeks. In the past few evenings we’ve had wandering storm cells but no rain – overnight, though, we hit the jackpot. It rained for hours in the middle of the night.
The wash didn’t run, of course. That would be freakish so early in the season. But we got enough rain that some of the individual gullies ran a bit.
Floods last year and the year before have resculpted the far bank of the wash’s horseshoe turn into more of a wall, incidentally threatening the newly-rebuilt target stands and also leaving the various gullies that drain at that point high and dry.
Watching the situation slowly self-correct has been entertaining, for a value of entertainment perhaps perceptible only to your friendly neighborhood old desert hermit. 🙂
The increased weather has had the usual effect on my cell coverage. I thought at first I would be entirely unable to post this morning, and those few pics took forever to upload. It’s just that time of year, and it was far worse back in the satellite dish days. So for that reason and also because there’s just nothing blogworthy going on, posting may be sparse. I’ve pretty much concluded that posting political filler just to honor the “post every day” rule is not worth the aggravation caused by paying that much attention to the news.
