Watered front lawn briefly for about 15 minutes for the 1st time in 2026. Lawn is yellow and crisp with a few green sprigs of weeds but not many. Severely dry. Fruitless Pear tree has fully transitioned from blossoms to small green leaves. Leaves are new and soft currently. Weeds in the backyard are unfortunately doing well, despite my hopes. Ponderosa Pine is hanging in there so far. Iris leaves are still trying, but no evidence of blossoms yet. I usually have 8-10 iris plants waking up by now, but still just the one that showed promise about a month ago. Everything needs water.
Overall, yucky drought.