Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, Mani the purebred border collie, filling in for the guy I live with, and here today to tell you how soaked we got.
You may remember me from such similarly-themed posts as “Totally Soaked”, among at least a few others.

Here I am in a characteristic pose.Maybe you can see how refreshed and green everything is. We were soaked by downpours over the last couple of days.
This is of course a huge relief.
We only got a teeny bit of rain today, but the guy I live with didn’t complain at all.

This would be the end of my post, but of course there was a lot of work in the garden today. Way more than I expected.
For one thing, you can see that the ugly pink granite rocks in the enclosure are now gone.
I’ve lost count of the number of errors of judgment, or of taste, that I’ve shown just this summer, but it’s kind of amusing.
The rocks are going to be used as a “wall” in the sand bed, which is shrinking by half, lengthwise. The guy I live with says I won’t be able to see the rocks because of “clever engineering”.
Based on what I said a couple of paragraphs earlier, I have my doubts.

Speaking of engineering, we now have a fortified compound in the “way back” garden.
The guy I live with said that this was only temporary and all the cages will be removed when winter comes (assuming we have a winter), but in the meantime he thought he might submit this design to a national gardening magazine.
The cages are protect new plants, and emerging seedlings, from rabbits.
You can see how green the buffalo grass is now, and maybe the rabbits will pay more attention to the grass instead of any seedlings not in the cages.

And that’s my news for today. We got a lot of rain, and we have a fortified compound.
I’ll leave you with a picture of me on the mowed part of the green belt, yesterday. Hopefully the rain will make the grass green again.

Until next time, then.