Hope For Drought Relief!!

The next couple of days here in Quail will go a long way to determining if many dogwood trees live or die.  While a friend from the other side of Louisa County told me it was the worst mosquito year she can remember that is not a problem here; there is no water here. The north side (and east and west ends) have had inches of rain this month and the world is lush and green - and apparently full of breeding mosquitoes, we have almost none. No water, not mosquitoes!!
Just finishing a book on the building 21st century worldwide water issues - Alex Prud'homme's, The Ripple Effect- was even more troubling reading in a house that catches and filters rain water. And, while a recent check on my tanks reveals quite a bit of water it could use a serious freshening and the entire forest is parched. My trails are almost leaf covered; the earliest I can remember this many leaves giving up on life (usually a hot, August thing). A one two punch of storm systems is headed this way, unfortunately they will likely be spotty and none have hit this spot. Watching storms on radar reminds me of people in a crowd swerving and contorting to miss the crazy, ranting person; oh, we don't want to go that way, oh, miss that spot... Watching trees die is not fun.
The rocking earthquake planet that was yesterday - several quakes in the 5 range - has calmed and is fairly quiet. And, so far, there have been no quakes in Oklahoma, a day no doubt remembered by oil companies in their denial reports, "you can't prove it's salt water injection, 'cause we injected today and there were no quakes". Or maybe they didn't inject... But, it's still early in the day.
The week's volcano list has grown slightly from last week with pretty standard Ring O Fire activity. Piton de la Fournaise off Madagascar has been oozing some lava of late but is not really raging. Nishinoshimo, the new island forming well off Japan's southeast coasts is still fired up and growing although seems to be mostly still underwater.
The slowly growing crescent moon will approach Jupiter tonight, my hope is that will be blocked with storm clouds. The clouds are building, the humidity is sneaking up, the stage is set; come on ya big planet, dump some water on me, today on Earth.