Goodbye January

Wooosh...... and the first month of the year is gone. It has been a time of adjustment and change for us, with our DS leaving the nest, DD starting high school through distance education and I have to admit we are sticklers for our routines and all the rain has certainly played havoc with this.

I am happy however, the school bus is now running again and yesterday I was able to do a little mowing and brush cutting. (Really the place looks as though the owners have moved away if you know what I mean) So todays agenda is "Mowing" I am itching to use the ride on mower now that it has had two new front tyres fitted and DH will be busy slashing, once he gets back. Of course our plans are dependent upon the weather, so here's hoping.

One thing that doesn't seem to mind all the rain is the dragonfruit and we are now eating the first of this seasons fruit.

Keeping in mind our goals for this year we were lucky to come across an advert giving away a roller door, great just what we wanted for the garlic shed. Bit of a bugger we were flooded in but DSIL came to the rescue and collected it for us and as it turned out the people had two to give away so he got them both, yay!! He kept the electric motors and will be fitting them to his doors as we don't need them, so you might say it was a bonus for both families.

As you maybe able to see, I am having problems again with blogger. I can not get spacing between my paragraphs. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be most grateful.........

Staying put ......

This morning we received a call from our neighbour, they are out of milk and were wondering if we could spare any. They are going no where as you can see from the below picture, trees have fallen across the road and in the creek and where my neighbour is standing the actual road is being washed away, at present there is a washout over half a meter deep.

Darren crossed over up stream where it was safer and met us on the other side. So they will be right for a while. Not bad considering we have now been flooded in since Tuesday. Below is a picture of the same creek crossing - down stream.

I remember this time last year we were flooded in for six weeks and in that time I ran out of matches !!! (yep I've stocked up) DD is feeling the pinch as we are running low on tomato sauce. Not to worry I have plenty I can substitute with. Funny how things work out, "Joyfulhomemaker" just did a posting on her pantry provisions about making tomato sauce and used the same tomato press that we have been eyeing off on ebay and is on our list of must haves.

Our days have pretty much been moving from the house to the garlic shed and back as we busily prepare the garlic for sale. This job is time consuming and tedious but we are close to seeing returns which will make it all worthwhile. At least it is a dry task ..........

It's wet here ..........

Yesterday we received 75mls of rain in approx 15 minutes. Above is a picture of our driveway which is normally high and dry.

All the dams are overflowing on our place. The creeks are running and we are flooded in again with last nights total rain fall coming in at 135ml and it isn't over yet.