Thunder and lightning.

We had the most amazing thunderstorm raging around and over us last  night.  It started early evening with some rumbling way up in the Sierras,  gradually moving around until there was a wonderful lightning show going all around the Contraviesa.  For a while there was  lightning flashing and thunder rumbling all at the same time, with the lightning going from left to right and back again.  Occasional heavy rain at that time, but it got heavier in the night.  Very dirty rain, don't know where it came from but it's left a sandy deposit over the garden furniture and the pool has lost it's sparkle.  It'll settle in a couple of days onto the pool floor then we can clean it out.

Consequently today has been cooler than the 30's of late, still some cloud and quite humid and sticky.  But the ground is all lovely and damp so I took advantage of that and did some more chilli bed digging.  Another 70 or so chilli plants in, some were replacements for the first planting which were perhaps a bit small and didn't survive.  But still more seedlings in the potting shed,  all in yoghurt pots so no rush to plant them out as they have plenty of growing room yet.  If these all grow and produce - fruit? vegetable? - then we will have a few years worth to dry and freeze for stock, plus seeds for future years.