We had a glorious storm, about 5-1/2″ rain in our yard, almost as much as all the rain so far this year. About 13″ total. We still need a lot more, but this was a good omen. The ground out in the woods is finally soaked. Don’t know if the chanterelles have given up for the year, but we’ll see.
A couple of rain songs:
I Wish It Would Rain by The Temptations on Grooveshark
Love the Rain by Toots Hibbert on Grooveshark
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
A little more up here in the foothills of The Sierra. About a foot of rain fell and brought the rivers to life once again.