The Rain it Raineth Not

We are suffering here in Aurora-where everything is blessed- from a drought. There is a total water ban and the gardens look pitiful. I have to water the vegetable patch with a watering can and it takes forever, also one arm looks rather longer than the other. There is rain due this week but I have my doubts that it will be enough. I pulled a poor little dahlia that I had got for Mother's Day out of the dust. I stuck its little tubers overnight in a pail of water and repotted it in among the vegetables where it will be watered for sure. There doesn't seem to be anything more I can do for the poor things but carry around watering cans and wait for the heavens to open. We have had dry spells before but never a total watering ban like this. I'm hearing strange things about the weather in B.C. When I was there last year the small fish that the seals and sea birds feed on had not arrived so they where all starving. It was early spring so they would have had offspring to feed. It seems that climate change is here with a vengence and whether or not it is a cycle that the Earth goes through if we were here or not, it seems good Karma to be as kind to all living things as possible. With that in mind I will continue my rounds with the watering can and if my arms are a little longer at the end of it all, it is in a good cause.