It has turned into a mild and rainy day in the Ozarks. Looks like we have gotten over an inch, maybe an inch and a half, in the last 90 minutes. Unfortunately, I had not emptied the rain gauges since the first of August. We had a little over an inch in the first 10 days of August but it hasn't rained in three weeks and the lawn was getting brown. Temps are staying down, 75F,(23.9C).  Only one thunderclap. Just a couple of periods of steady downpour. We needed rain. This will green things up. I'll probably have to mow the lawn again in five or six days.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."