The
wind blew all night and slowly brought the temperature down.
7am
22 degrees. Still blowing hard and bringing clouds over. Forecast is for storms
for the next 4 days but only 0 to 2ml of rain if that.
Kaylene
texted the Jakob had proposed to Anna in a Japanese garden while they are
holidaying there. I rang her back to hear all about it. Emma has decided to go
back to Uni in Townsville and study Business so both their kids have left
Cairns now. She is worried about Jakob’s flat in Townsville as the flooding is
so bad but a friend went by it and everything looked ok.
Got
a message from Jakob then – so nice of him to let us know. He’s the first of
our group’s children to get engaged, though they won’t be getting married for a
quite a while yet as Anna is studying Medicine.
Rang
Mum and Dad to share the news. Had a dry day but she thinks more rain is
coming. The humidity is terrible of course. The rains have made their way
across inland Queensland so at least the pastoralists will get some drought
relief now.
Had
a cuppa then rang Erica. No rain there. She had a slip in the shower - slippery when she left the stuff in the
shower to clean it – bashed her toes badly but hopefully nothing broken. Aunty
Maree still in hospital. She needs a stent put in so they are trying to get it
organised to be done in Brisbane.
The
sky has cleared as we headed to O’Keefe bore again. Steve wants to drop the
pump further down as it didn’t pump for long before it started sucking air. Got
that sorted and it is pumping well now.
Found
another track to follow hopping it will give us a short cut back to St Patricks
well but it just turned and joined the other track further along. Picked up the
full water pod again. It didn’t take long to refill after all the wind on the
windmill last night. Took it back home to put the water in the our well to pump
up into our tank.
Had
lunch, 31 degrees and the wind is still blowing. Band of clouds on the horizon
in the west.
Steve
brought the pod over to the cottage and with a long hose we poured the last of
the water on the ‘grass’ which is struggling with the heat. Flood irrigation
rather than a sprinkler! Bit of a pain shifting it – will have to modify that!
Rick
rang for a chat with Steve as he wasn’t there this morning when we were
chatting with Kaylene.
Baked
some cookies and a slice for our morning teas. Put in our grocery order for Kym
and Glen to collect tomorrow when they go to Kalgoorlie.
Lovely
temperature with the wind still blowing. Sat and read my book while we had
drinks. Steve on the tablet again reading about the Bathurst 12 hour race
today. The cattle wandered in for their drinks – spotted a cute little calf
with white legs.
Dinner
and movie. 10.30pm 28 degrees and wind still blowing strongly from the ESE.
NO
PHOTOS TODAY.
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