Hot dry week with one day (Thursday) of cooler temperatures and a little bit (0.05") of rain. Record warmth on Saturday. Lawns continue to brown and trees and other plants/bushes are showing drought stress. Level of the reference pond dropped a little and is clearly below full capacity now. A grass fire near Noble damaged some infrastructure and we were without internet for about 12 hours as they did repairs. These are probably the driest conditions I have experienced since moving to this location 6 years ago, but I don't think it is severely dry. We are probably getting close to the edge of moderately dry and severely dry.