The rain must be in Spain.

Here in the southeast we are known for our hot, sunny days (we average around 300 days of sunshine a year). We may not have the highest temperatures in the continental US but it does get warm. It also gets very humid which makes having the heat a little hard to take some times. It feels like you're walking through a steam bath some days.

I'm originally from the northeast where it might get into the 90's for a few days every summer. Here in the southeast, we can be in the 90's for weeks at a time. And when those weeks match up with high humidity and little precipitation, that means trouble.

We have only just gotten out of a 7-8 year draught and I'm starting to see a pattern of no rain that may just put us back into one. Oh, we did get a few drops of rain over night but that barely got the ground wet and that was the first drops of rain we've had in over two weeks. I'm watering the lawn this morning in hopes of keeping it alive. Soon we'll be back on water restrictions and then the watering will have to stop.

The first year we had little rain after moving here I was amazed at how hard the clay soil got. I was used to digging in brown dirt just about any time of the year. In the southeast, if it hasn't rained lately, forget about digging in the latter part of the summer. The clay dirt turns into cement. You need powered equipment to get into the ground. That's why most houses in these parts don't have a basement either. The ground gets crazy hard.

I hope it rains soon. We need a good couple of days of steady rain.