A Little Moisture

It has finally rained a little..just enough to make some good old MUD! Only got three-tenths of an inch at my place, but it was a good slow, sinking-into- the -ground rain. I finally broke down and watered my St. Augustine grass, the irises and cannas..never had to water them in the winter before.....the St. Austine grass came from my parents' yard, planted in the 1950's,....I have had the flowers forever.... they came from my great-grandparents yards before the turn of the century..they are native Texas plants that have survived droughts before....but this drought is something else. Hay is extremely hard to find, and what you can find is very costly. A lady at the appraisal office was telling me that her son works at the West Auction Barn, and they are deluged with huge numbers of cattle...another month or two and the market will fall drastically.....it has held for the time being, but a lot of cattle are being dumped. Sheep and goats, too, and horses, as cannot afford to feed them.  Eventually, meat should go down in price as a result of too much supply.  With every cloud, there is that tiny silver lining.