Please don't send the rain now!! Don't get me wrong, I love the rain, but I can wait a few months before it shows up here. I'll be digging my trench soon for the electrical and the clay soil here is bad enough to deal with when it's dry. The reality is, there are only a few days per year when the ground is soft enough to dig through easily. It's either hard as concrete (and full of 4" stones), or so saturated that it sticks to everything like sculptors modeling clay. The joke around here is to find the 15 minutes every year that its workable. I'd settle for a few days with temperatures in the 80's.