Rain, Rain, where art thou?

We need rain badly.

It did not rain a single drop all during April. And, we have had no rain so far as of May 9th with only a slight prospect later this week. The last rain we had was 0.4 inch on March 5th. Its so dry the trees, and I mean large oak trees, are shedding this year's growth of leaves. The pastures are all brown. They look like it is August instead of May. The cows are finding very little to eat. They are eating yaupon leaves which normally they would not touch. I saw the big steer with the 7 foot 4 inch horn spread use a horn to reach up as high as he could to hook a tree limb and pull it down to where he could eat the leaves. We have a burn ban and have had one since February. I rake and haul leaves to a huge burn pile in the east pasture, but can't burn them. The cows see me coming with a trailer load of leaves and come running. They nose around in the leaves to find acorns to eat. I have to water all the plants around the house every day its so dry. We've lost a number of large trees due to drought and I run water sprinklers around some of the large ones hoping not to loose them, too. First we had the toughest coldest winter killing a lot of our vegetation and now we have drought. Must be global warming, Al.