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Oh Yes I Wish It Would Rain Down, Down On Me

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This is how the garden bed is watered. Plus also, my face and camera in the reflection.

The hole we dug with gentlemanly brawn and will of personal spirt has been filled (half way) with an amalgam of compost (purchased from various establishments), a bit of peat moss (from Canada), some cheap top soil (probably also from foreign lands) and a little bit of our satan soil.

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It’s only half filled because that’s what we can afford at the moment. The improvised rock wall is to ward off the possible ill-effects of a deluge of desert rain… Which brings us to our titular topic… rain.

As hinted in the first image of this post, off-grid means no water lines, which means no hose, which means if you want to pour some water somewhere on this land, you bring it, which means…. Watering Can! And when I use the watering can, it makes me think– EVERY TIME– of Steve Coogan yelling at the British civil servant in the hilarious film, In The Loop. See it at 0:51.

She’s Got A Watering Can!

And I do. I have a watering can, which I fill with water from one of the rain barrels behind the house, walk the 100 yards to the garden bed, pour on, then fluff with the pitchfork.

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For all that pouring and fluffing, the bed is not that wet. I can carry a lot. But I worry. I don’t want the bed to be parched and dry when we put the seedlings in…

What we need is a good solid rain. We’ve had but two snows this winter and yesterday we got a magical thirty-five second rain spattering that just made the dry desert soil angry. Dry dry dry.

I now know what the people before aqueducts felt. I will dance, I will pray, I will ask the powers that be. Please. Let it rain. Oh, how I wish it would rain down, down on me. Let it ra-ai-ain down on me now.

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For all the complaining, here’s the beautiful sky today. Sort of a reason for living.

The weather forecast says 80% chance of rain tomorrow. I makes me so happy I could sing. Which brings us to the title of the post… yet again, I’ve named a post after a lyric in some random pop song. But! Should you want to feel the power that is Phil Collins singing I Wish It Would Rain Down (with a sweet Jeffrey Tambor cameo) click here=====> Lllliiiiinck!

And then, when you’re done with Phil Collins doing his Hollywood dress-up routine, watch the recommended follow up of Sinead O’Conner’s Nothing Compares to You and feel yourself sighing in awe of how cute she is. I mean seriously. Look at those eyeballs. They overcome any SNL controversy. I know this has nothing to do with rain, or off grid or gardening. But the IPAs I’ve enjoyed tell me it’s okay to share with you some pop song love from the latter part of the 20th century.

PS. I’ve signed up to grow snap peas along with Cold Antler Farm. These will be grown indoors. Should my whole garden go to hell, perhaps I’ll at least have peas.


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