Heatwave continues and what is that stuff coming out of the sky?

 After about 3 months without rain we finally got 1/2 inches of rain today!! Praise the Lord!! 

Rewind a few hours..... 

This morning at about 11am my husband and I went to an Antique Mall. As we were walking around one of the venders was there and he began talking about how hot it had been and our need for rain. Towards the end I told him - I know that even if rain in NOT on the forecast that if God decides to give us rain - we will get rain... At about 4:30 this afternoon our power flickers off 3 times. I was a bit worried. Many times if your power flickers several times it is an indication that the power is about to go off. And because it was at least 100 degrees outside I was NOT wanting the power to go out. I decided to go out and do some of the daily cares for my chickens. As I was out there it was a bit over cast and began to get windy. There were a few little jobs out there that I needed to take care of so that if it rained. I got them taken care of - I checked the radar on my phone and saw a system moving through. I had seen it a bit earlier but was worried it would bypass of to the west. As I was checking the radar - I began to feel big drops of rain. I was so excited. I had known that if it rained I had every intention of getting out in the middle of and I sure did. As it began to rain harder - I did go under our small porch. The wind was blowing the rain towards the porch so as I stood there I still got quite a bit of rain on me. It felt so good. I was afraid to go inside. I was afraid that if I did, it might stop raining. After about 15 minutes I went in and opened the shade and the curtains so I could watch it rain. If that wasn't nice enough I got a phone call from my granddaughter who lives a couple of hours away right now. She wanted to let us know that it was fixing to rain there. It was great to hear from her and to get out in the rain. We desperately need rain. 

Today was day number 47 of triple digit temps, which ties the number of triple digits for last year. And it looks like we will blow that record out of the water. As I look at the 2 week forecast it looks like the next 4 days will be in the upper 90's and then 10 more triple digit days. I think we will end up in the top 5 maybe even top 3 most triple digit temps for the year. Oh and up to this point in history our area has only had 7 triple digit temps in September but on that 2 week forecast - those 10 days would all be in September - so we will probably break that record as well. Oh Friday and Sabbath both we made it up to 110 and broke records set for both of those days.... ugh... its been a rough summer.

Although it has been a rough summer I have to say that the rain we got today was so refreshing. On May 23 we got 1/2 inches of rain. And June 5th we got a tiny sprinkling of rain that equaled .07 inches. So 3 months since any measurable amount of rain. I am so thankful to God for blessing us today with a decent amount of rain. Although we got 1/2 inches of rain we are still under a burn ban and in severe drought but that rain was so refreshing to the earth as well as to me and my soul. I think it will help me make through the next couple of weeks of the heatwave we have been going through. 

And I hope that if the gentleman that I was talking with this morning about God being able to send us rain was blessed with rain. I hope he remembers our conversation like I did and that he will give God the glory for the blessing of rain today!! :o)