Sunday, February 17, 2008

Easy like a Sunday morning......

It's actually Sunday afternoon, but I can hear Lionel Richie and the commodores......

Just had a beautiful BBQ with several glasses of Australian shiraz and it feels good! This is the life.....The weather has settled, although flooding still remains a problem for many in other parts of Queensland.
In 4 weeks time we'll be picking Mum and Chris up from the airport.




Saturday, February 9, 2008

Sunshine and showers...

We've had beautiful deep blue Queensland skies since Thursday!!!! Unfortunately we have not been able to use the pool to cool off. The first part of the week was very wet.....very very very wet. I came home from work on Wednesday afternoon to find my back yard approx 3 inches deep in water!!! The rain fell so fast, the ground could not cope with it. The roads were flooded. What should have been a five minute journey took me half an hour!!! Anyway, back to the pool. It over flowed AGAIN!!! As fast as we let water out by back washing, it falls from the sky! The pool had gone green again despite the $122 worth of chemicals we put in it on Monday!!!!!
Anway, today it is looking crystal clear again, after more chlorine, salt, acid, stabilizer, buffer, starver, hotzone.......
Lets hope we have a couple more nice days so that we use the pool before the monsoons come again as predicted next week!!!
The good news is that our dams are filling up. They are at their highest levels in 5 years!!! Yippee!!

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Oh crikey mate!

NEWSFLASH!!!!
Have just heard on the evening news that some houses just down the road from where we live have been damaged by flood waters!! This is not funny. I think I may need to start building an ark!

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Floods!

It's the second time in the last month that our pool has overflowed causing our yard to flood!! Where is all this rain coming from?? Ok, it's coming from the sky, I know, but why is it not going into the dams where it is desperately needed??? I have had enough water in my yard this morning to raise the dams by a few inches I'm sure!

In the whole 27 months we have lived in Brisbane, I'm sure the biggest rainfall has been in the last 5 weeks!!! Where are those deep blue Queensland skies? Oh yes, they were there at the beach last weekend, (sorry, my old age causes me to lose my memory sometimes!).

Sorry for being a whinging pom!