Drought!

This is a picture I took from the front deck this time last year. Snow. Lots of snow. Not skiing snow but plenty enuf to make a snowman and to keep us shoveling. And, occasionally to keep us housebound when the road is too deep for one or another of us living out here to break a path. This year, right now all I see is the beginnings of green grass! The chickens are out doing their usual spring weeding. Except it isn't spring.

And, no rain. Scary when you take into account the number of fires we had last year from lightning strikes and the well over 100,000 acres that burned around us and at the north end of the valley.

If we don't get rain or snow soon, there won't be much of a garden this year. Everyone cross their fingers!