After a record setting ten inches in July we now
have had 5.50 inches in August after 2.05 last night.
I am getting tomato juice off the vines and what
Looks like watered down fig preserves off the trees.

I hear you Mike.   We have excceded our annual average already, and it makes it even seem like more because I heard today that 6 of last 7 years we did not make our average.

It's one thing or another, Mike.
Been a bad growing season overall.

In the news last week they said the local farmers are enjoying the rain because it helps with the watering.

Rafed, that may be true in some areas. In South GA a huge watermelon
growing area the cost is at all time high. They could not plant corn because
the fields have been so wet. I hear they want be able to plant fall
crops now.

Send some rain my way!!!  Houston suffered a severe drought a few years ago and we haven't really recovered since. 

Meghan, I wish I could. We did the drought thing for about three years straight.
Not sure which way I dislike the most. All thus rain or drought. Neither is good.

I never complain about the rain. I at one time did, untill I realized no rain is a lot worse than too much rain.

Jake, I use to think like that. After this spring and summer in our area that has changed.
Not only are the farmers suffering, which they do during droughts also, there are many
people whose homes and lives have been destroyed because of all the flooding in parts
of not only Georgia but other states. That's in addition to many deaths.

  Weather can certainly be in the eye of the beholder.  I had a nightmare last night, re-living the 2007 fires in SoCal and was delighted to hear it raining.  Today I'm worrying about mold.  LOL  Mold is a new experience for me, never saw mold in CA

  Mike, We moved here in 2008 and thought someone was joking about drought because it looked so lush and green even natural ponds, streams all over the place. 

Yes, the rain certainly helps with the water bill; and vegetative growth has been explosive. However, it has stunted the development of the figs. Guess next year will benefit from an overall strengthening of the trees. There's my silver lining.

It seems like every summer is one extreme or another but this rain has been horrendous. We have huge trees just toppling over and floods in the mountains!
And the 'skeeters up here in Chattanooga remind me of the ones I escaped from back in Savannah. We have to keep an eye on the kids and small pets or they get carried off!
Also last nite I noticed the beginnings of webs between my toes and fingers. Gahhhhh!

LoL Sophie

Mike, you are right about it being hard to decide if not enough or too much is worse.  I like seeing everything green and lush though so I vote for too much. 

Sophie,

I completely understand where you are coming from.  No mold, roaches, chiggars, or poison ivy in Colorado.  BIG change when I moved to Houston, TX

Yep, ticks, Palmetto bugs, venomous snakes, giant spiders and poison sumac to contend with here. No such issues when I lived in Ohio. But then, no real growing season either.

OHHH the Brown Recluse!

Yes,
I remember it like yesterday.
Two one week trips to the hospital. Only three home days in between.
Two months out of work.
Almost lost my leg, if not my life.
The most excruciating pain ever. I mean the pains pain. Even pain didn't want to deal with that kind of pain.
Nerves damaged so severe that it spread to my other leg and still to this day ( a year later ).

But,,,
Me and Dilaudid became best friends. They give me the hit, I close my eyes and see all kinds of crazy things.
That was some good stuff.

I saw the hole in Rafed's leg from the problems he had with that bite.
He still has sexy legs ! ROFL.

rafed, I don't envy you one iota. I know these spiders are nothing to mess with and I'm just thankful, having grown up here, that I've never had the displeasure to have been bitten. I'm always ever cautious when messing around outside in my little barn that's filled with webs. And snakes....OMG how I detest snakes of any kind! Creeps me out.

Martin, we won't mention your admiration to your wife. LOL