Rain, rain, go away....

Today is September 25th...and it's raining.  I know you guys on the East Coast deal with rain in the summer all the time, but in California it usually doesn't start raining until late October or November.  Our poor contractor was coming back from his grandson's birthday party in Sacramento yesterday to see gray clouds moving inland.  He was worried about the rain, so he and his son came by around 6 pm to put tarps up on the roof.  My husband felt so bad that when he got home at 6:30 pm, he scarfed down some dinner and went up on the roof to help them.  Sure enough, by 11 am this morning, it started to rain.  The funny thing is, the contractor's dad, who used to be a contractor himself, told his son that it was going to rain in September.  I want to know how he was able to predict that....

Here comes the rain clouds.

Here you can see a little bit of the tarp on the roof.

You can see how much they had to cover.



Bummer....at about 1:30 pm I looked outside onto the front porch and noticed water dripping from the roof. It wasn't raining anymore, but the water that was sitting on the tarps found it's way down. So we ended up with two water puddles near the new entryway. I swept it off and put buckets under the drips to catch the rest of the standing water. I don't think we will see the rain anymore the rest of the day...it will just be cloudy. By the end of the week, the weather person says it's going to be in the 90's again.

My little helper!

At least this will be dry by the end of the week!