Watering Man
You learn the value of rain when your yard turns brown without it
It makes sense that this — the first day since April, it seems, not forecast to be above 90 degrees — is the official start of summer.
The conditions haven’t merely been unseasonably warm in these parts for the past several weeks. They’ve been about what you’d expect in Death Valley in July. The temperatures have been sweltering, and rain showers have been as infrequent as Cubs victories.
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