Mandolin Rain

I'm typing with the window on the screen door open, listening to the sound of rain falling outside.  It's been a long time since that sound has been heard around here.  I was just thinking this afternoon how badly we needed a good rain.  We had the roof replaced at the end of the July, and the driveway was still covered in asphalt grit because we haven't had any rain to speak of since then.  It's been raining off and on since about 6:00 this evening, the first rain to send more than a trickle through our new gutters.  The first half-hour or so, the water pouring out of the downspout was absolutely filthy with the dirt of a long, hot summer.  It could rain all week and not make much of a difference to our poor, dead lawn, though.  I'm afraid we're just going to have to wait until next spring and see what comes back.