No rain this time for us either, but clouds and high humidity. I'm grateful for cooler temps this summer too. Our highest temp for this summer has only been 96, and there haven't been many days that hot. So better. And my "lawn" out front is so very green. It's mostly annual crabgrass; most of the perrenial grass died out last summer. We can't afford to water grass and garden and orchard.

Jay, Your humidity is worse than mine today! Our humidity was bad for the last 3 or 4 weeks, but since the rain mostly keeps missing us, it is a little less bad every day. This morning it was only in the 70s, but our dewpoints have been staying uncomfortably high. I hate the high humidity!

It has been a better year for rain, but the last few good rains have only hit portions of our county and have mostly missed us, so all the green is starting to dry out. The further south you go in Love County, the drier it is. I was at the northern edge of the county yesterday and it was amazingly green.

Dorothy, It sounds like yall are having a wonderful summer, especially when compared to the last two years.

June was nice here and a little bit of July was. At our house, it often has been 3 to 7 degrees higher than the high temp recorded at our local mesonet station. I told Tim we should have bought a place further north and west and closer to the mesonet station since their rainfall usually is higher than ours and their temperatures are lower. We have had far too many days with a high temp between 100 and 107, but....well, it is August, so I feel like we can endure a couple more weeks of this because autumn is almost here. Hooray!

We had a slim chance of rain for later in the week, and now the NWS has dropped it from our forecast. I wasn't really expecting it to rain anyhow.

Dawn

Okay, why would one shake tomato cages? I ask because I plan to use them next year. I'm not too crazy about my tomato plants sprawled all over the place like drunkards.

On windy days I usually don't shake them. But on still days if the temps or humidity aren't too high it helps with pollination of the bloom. I also shake the sprawlers. Many times we have enough wind the plants don't need any extra shaking.
I just got home. A shower came through and left a half an inch of rain. Must of been a little hail and high winds from the damage I saw. Nothing severe but again I haven't looked at the whole garden yet. Jay

The garden did suffer some cosmetic damage. The cukes took the worst beating. The wind damage was almost as bad as the hail damage. It blew some of my sprawlers upside down. I think they all should be fine in a few days. I saw a few fruit with large skinned and bruised areas. But mainly they look bad. Jay