August 17, 2016. Western Had, Nova Scotia. The Rains.

For the past several weeks, every day the  weather report showed rain.  Some times we would have a bit of a drizzle but ever since we have arrived here we have had no substantial amount of rain.  Ken would track the rain clouds on his phone and every day the rains were pushed back on land or further north.  Some places in Nova Scotia got rain, but not in Queen's County.

Last evening, Ken reported that we would have rain by midnight but when Ken checked before we went to bed, the forecast now showed we were to have rain at 2:00.  We turned out our lights at 12:30 with little hope the rain would actually fall.   but something wonderful happened.  At 2:00 it started to rain and it kept raining until almost noon.  Sometimes the rain fell hard and at other times we could hear the gentle rain that is the best kind.  By morning, the waves were rolling in and the winds were blowing.

The whole of Nova Scotia received rain so the forest fires are now out and the air advisory has been lifted.  The smoke in the air has been removed.  We can now visit the cottage.  The healing rains have arrived.