All is not lost!

Despite the enormous dark clouds looming to the north west of us this morning - Granada way - and rain streaked clouds to the west - Malaga way - the forecast had us as being a bit cloudy but dry.  As it's Sunday I decided to have a quick water of the vegetable beds.  Although it's the weekend in between watering weekends,  the ground is very dry and yesterday the runner beans looked floppy in the late afternoon sun.  I took a box for the beans as they have made enough to pick for dinner tonight.  And the second planting is beginning to flower,  and the third lot that went in on Monday are already popping up out of the ground.

So glad to see something producing well,  we also had our first potatoes in the week,  they were just some that had decided to sprout before we'd eaten very many so I cut them up and planted the lot in 3 different places.  They have all grown really well,  I only dug out 1 plant to start with just to see how big the potatoes had grown,  big bite sized is the best description, so out came a row.  Actually some were much bigger and those we've kept to cook and dice for a potato salad - red skinned spuds will look pretty in a salad.

Picked some mint and parsley too,  chopped finely and sprinkled over the potatoes with melted butter - yummy.   Added to that were peas from the freezer from a month or so ago and  a good chunky pork steak pan-fried in butter and olive oil.

More of the potatoes for dinner tonight along with the beans...

Back to the watering....

The rain that wasn't forecast  came as a quick burst while I was outside....

The thunder that wasn't forecast rumbled around for an hour or so.....

But now the blue is back down south although large clouds to the north.