WET!

At 2:30 a.m. on Monday morning we awoke to the first drops of rain tapping on the windows. Radar was checked:

 By 4:30 it had moved on, leaving this in it's wake:

The light in this next shot is DH's flashlight. Yes, we are excited enough to walk out after the rain at 4:30 in the morning to check the rain gauge:

To say we are ecstatic is an understatement:

Not a drop of rain in this dirt tank the day before  - now it has been transformed

Around here, we need 2 types of rain: the slow rains allow the ground to absorb the moisture and quench the land of good grass-growing nourishment and the hard, fast rains run water and fill our dirt tanks that provide water for the stock. When we get both, we have happy cattle and happy ranchers.
Last week we had 4 little showers that dropped 1.1" here at the house. Our North Camp had 2.5". After this rain, the arena and round pen are both under water:

The bar ditches are full:

I didn't want to go into work because running around with DH to check tanks and rain gauges was more enticing, but he said it was really too wet to check anything off the pavement anyway and it was still pretty wet when Skeet and I walked the next morning:

Poor chickens were leery of venturing out of the coop, but surely they will be tempted before long by the smorgasbord of bugs that await them on the other shore:

The horses are contemplating their options and making a plan:

May you take a page from Skeet's playbook and be blessed by something that makes you jump for joy today: