It's Raining!

You may have snow in your neck of the woods; we have rain today. My pasture is ever sooooo happy. It's perfect. I got out early to plant some strawberries and to put some herbs and flower seeds in the window boxes on the deck. They said that it would rain starting at 10:00 and at 9:45 this morning down it came just as I finished my planting. We think we are so smart to know the time the rain will start, the day is predicted a week ahead. Rather than a news channel I am finding myself turning on the weather channel for news; there's as much news about our climate and weather as there is about the political climate. Has it always been this way? I remember my mother after she retired watching the weather carefully. She could tell you what was happening where ever her daughters or relatives were living. Perhaps it just my age that I seem more interested in the weather. Or perhaps it is that I am becoming more "grounded", more in tune with the earth itself.