Cotton popping

It's been extremely hot and dry here this summer, rain is falling all around us, but not here, making the temperature even higher. I lay in the bed last night reading when I heard the thunder roaring in the distance, got up to go down and check on the goaties in my night gown, by the time I got the barns open it was pouring, hard, I got soaked, I'm okay with that,it felt good. Had to drag Petunia, bottle brat, to her portable shelter, she was getting soaked also. Checked the rain gage this morning, we had almost 3", and it is raining today. The rain won't help the cotton or corn, but will help make the late soybeans and my pasture turned green over night, but it is late in the year, plants are beginning to slow down and store energy for the winter.