Grey Days...

Hello Dhaaarlings...

After hanging out for so long for decent rains and with bumper crops almost ready for harvest

This weekend is turning into another bought of wet tropical downpours with the accompanying light and sound show...

We have had 68 ml since Friday evening. And it is still raining...

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The farmers could have done with fine sunny weather from now till after Christmas.

To give them a better chance to get the harvest in...

But... you never know what Dame Nature is going to serve up next...

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She can be so fickle sometimes.... 

And to top it all off I have just been to cast my vote today in the State Elections...

I just love standing in a queue getting drenched.... Don't You!

But ther were some very interesting converstions taking place around me while I endured the wait..

"Wanna share a booth and check my box?"

"Speaking of hung parliaments..."



"Do you vote above the line or below the line?"



"Are you a swinging voter?"



"Put ‘one' in this box and I'll put one in yours."



"Now I see the appeal of polling the electorate."




"So which member are you hoping to get up?"



"They don't call me a ‘donkey voter' for nothing."

Eureka....

Hello Dhaarlings...

It's raining again
andI've been trying to balance a raindrop on a plant leaf like this for days now dhaaarlings...

And today I finally did it!

 I'm so pleased with myself...

Oops....

Oh Nooooo....

Bugger Bugger Bugger....

A moment of Meditation...



Come join me on the bench seat for a little quiet time...We can just sit and rest a while...
Watch the waves... The sun rising...
Listen to a lovely piece of musique...
And just be still...



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Besides...




My G-string could do with a little air...

What about Yours?...

I'm a little Peckish....

Hey...When I said I felt peckish...I didn't mean literally guys... 

Perhaps you'd prefer something from the Menu?

Follow the Leader...

Hello Dhaaarlings...

The sheep are moving to higher ground...

Climb every Mountain...

The rains have started again...
And this time there has been thunderstorms accompanied by light hail.

The sound and light show has been fantastic...

More rain for the next couple of days...
I might just have to get creative!

I'll Fire up the Pfaff and run up some play clothes...

Calm Before the Storm...

I think that we are experiencing a little of the  calm before the storm...

Torrential rain over the past weekend has caused many of the rivers and creeks across our state... which have been dry beds or... consisted of a series of disconnected stagnant ponds as a result of drought are now ....almost overnight... bursting at their banks and going into flood mode...

There is more rain predicted to come over the next several days and the catchments are already filling to overflowing so that now the rise in river levels is starting to threatening houses in towns and cities along the rivers. 

Not to mention the inundation of farming properties and their families growing sheep cattle and grain crops. 

There have been over to 200 evacuations so far with more towns in the danger zone.

I took the Empress for a drive to witness the river levels, which have'nt been as high in the area since 1956

We were here the day after the worst of the rain...

And the water level had dropped by about 8 feet from the previous day

This is the railway bridge over the Loddon River

The artwork that you can see on the pylon is a tile mosaic made by local school children depicting local wild life and containing photos of the last major flood in the area in 1956... unfortunately I wasn't climbing through the mud to get a closer shot... but the day prior to this photo the water level had been so high that the tiles could not be seen...

These are some arial shots of the floodwaters...

 

The rivers are still reaching their peaks and there is more rain on the way...

"The Palais" remains High and Dry in comparison

And in the middle of this

We are also being warned that we can now look forward to plague Locusts in late spring.

Let me sum it up for you...

Bushfires... Mouse plagues... Floods... Locust plagues...

I think all first born sons should be getting worried!