Rain, you say?
I'v been washing the cars, doing rain dances, cleaning windows, planning picnics,..............we ain't got nuttin' in my area.........
Medina Lake is, for all practical purposes, dry. It's at ~5% capacity.
My peach and plums are really being stressed, and I think my new avocado is soup sandwich. Even the grapes and vitex bushes are looking bad. The only things (outside of cactus, cedars, and oaks) that seem to be tolerating this weather are the Japanese Loquat, figs, and olive trees.
bump!
They have a lovely home they built on that hill, but I would worry about water. Plus, when I saw grasshoppers at least 6 inches long all over the side of their house, I nearly went into atomic radiation killer grasshopper mode.