Gorgeous! I'm a long way from the yard I visualise here, so its nice to see places like this that give goals to strive for.

Have you heard more from your weed removal guy, Kat?

We had really heavy rains here, in fact, my dog walk last evening was interrupted by the tornado sirens. We were about a block from the house, I could see heavy clouds to the northwest and knew I probably had time to finish a shortened route loop we do through the area fields, but decided to be prudent and turn around. The local weather folks had a lot of colorful weather maps on screen for much of the evening. This morning the dog dishes were full, and a bucket on the other side of the house has about an inch and a half. If I average between these two informal rain gauges, I'd guess we received upwards of 2.5" of mostly rain (and a little hail).

SRS