Storm clouds

It seems like we are always looking for storm clouds. In summer here that is the way rain arrives, fronts do not move slowly through the area, raining all day like in the fall and winter. The only way we get rain is with blowing winds and crashing thunder. At night you watch for flashing lightning in the distance, lighting up the room. Always hoping that the storm in the distance is going to get to the village and produce much needed rain.

This past week it has been hot and really humid and the storms have developed and several have come to the village ( and some have not), Garry says the ground in the sunflower field is wet for about three inches down now. Of course, Garry would like more rain. He has been able to stop buying water for the corn for a few days, but the big field will get it turned back on soon, because it is so hard to get water to all of the field. Next year they will do it differently to make it easier to get all the corn irrigated. The rain arrived just in time for people without irrigation, the regular corn was about half as tall as ours and turning brown.

Storm clouds building

Thursday it was hot and humid all day, and by the time we had to drive to Zaporosia around 4 pm, you could see two storms building around us... would they get to the village or not?

On the way out of the village we drove past the field the combine and baler were in so I could get some photos since they had decided it had dried out from the rain the day before.

Vlad driving the wagon of wheat back to the shed

Sunflower field is just starting to bloom

The guys only got one load baled before the first rain came. Not a lot but more moisture for the crops.
















The road is finished toward Zap as I said before, what a delight to have smooth riding and to have the traffic safely back on the right side of the road again. We had a few drops of rain as we drove into the city. Our weekly small group meeting had been moved up from the normal time.

 On the way home we were looking at the sky again trying to decide if the clouds were near the village, and then some rain drops were falling as we got closer. Would it be wet?There were puddles on the side road as we drove in to the village.

Garry was sleeping, but I woke to lightning in the distance around midnight and we got a little more rain. Of course, he'd always want more...

Today, Friday the humidity built up and early evening we had dark skies, wind and finally the rain has started falling again. Not much so far, but the thunder is still rumbling.

Off to breed somebody's cow again

The wheat and straw harvest can wait, there's never too much rain in Ukraine.