The people these government department problems always affect the most are the people in the bush. I remember my grandparents who lived in Mt Garnet all their lives always complaining about not getting the services people get in the big city. Nothing has changed.

YTD: 2033.5mm

21mm here this morning. A couple of quite heavy showers last night, could actually hear them on the roof. Still cool at 20°C.

Radar could be back today, maybe.

YTD: 2054mm

12:40pm and the RADAR is back and working. Hopefully it stays that way.

Woke to blue skies, now it's overcast again. Fair cool, sweater weather, thankfully the wind has settled down, for now.

Okay, things have settled down medically here a bit and I feel a tad more loquacious (If I were a lesbian I wouldn't have to worry about prostates.. interesting thought).

So he feels strong and picks up the chainsaw (it's a guy thing) so I point him at the decades old orchard and it, well, all of six trees, get cut back to a three foot stump. That'll larn 'em to grow outta sight where we get nuttin and the wildlife, sheesh, everything, including the borers and moths etc. (They're actually sprouting shoots but I have got spares planted closer to the house for better supervision)

I need to paint the house if only to find out where the previous coats have given up the ghost and become porous. Mixing partly filled colours from the tip I get just what I dearly wanted, terracotta, however, it's only one full can so muggsy paints the front with a two inch brush by hand. That's okay because with my reading glasses I can see every miss in the render I did long years ago, whereas with a roller I'd be standing back, blind. Plus loading the absorbent roller takes almost half the darned can and I can't spare it.
However, in a break in the drizzle (see, am on topic with a weather word) I go up on the concrete roof which also suffers but as no none can see it I empty cans of various colours and spread em around with a roller working my way back to the ladder. Now only a passing chopper or drone can see its wide random patches of purple, lime green and blue.

Oh, and Weary, surely that white streak is oncoming snow:?

Hi Dormant. It looks like the BOM just upgraded the radar in time for the dry season. The weather has turned spring like all of a sudden. A great day here today with no rain in sight.

YTD: 2066mm

The sun is out for the second day in a row , yippee
Better get busy, lawns to mow, spraying to be done.


Cheers

Nice to see you back Dormant and that things at home are as good as can be expected..

I also have to prune back plenty of trees including those Fiji longans from your seed......I have been waiting a year for a new battery from Husqvarna for the pole saw and finally arrived so that will be fun..

Wow hasnt the weather turned it onthis week and it is like spring SM......and the wind has dropped away to nothing here..should be out sprayinhg like bunyip but just waiting for a back ailment to feel a bit better before heading out for a fish...I took some wwoofers out last week on the little Hull river and saw 6-7 crocs including 3 between 3-4 metres sunning themselves within 200m of the Tully heads coastguard building and campground..

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I tried my hardest one time to convince a couple of middle aged German Tourists to get out of the water where they were swimming out in the deep channel next to the Coastguard less then 100m from one of these beasts..Of course they knew better then me and thought I was having them on...

Do we think thats the end of the main rain..?

Thanks, Scott.
So lovely to see in the morning that the radar is clear and any chore I've put off is possible. Course, then we all overdo it but it's a good weariness.
Only tree I have left of that family, Scott is a pulasan with a foot wide trunk now only standing.

Some people you just can't tell re dangers, they stand close to the water at the ferry after walking past a warning sign. I almost get ready with my camera but if anything happened I'd never get home till dark so I don't hope for an exclusive.

Weary off topic but how did you find your pulasan tree was it productive? I have two in the ground both are too small to fruit yet but they certainly dont grow as vigorously as my rambutan trees. Did you prefer pulasan taste over rambutan ?

Hiya GT, good question. lol
We long ago gave up on lychees and such like, too high, too many predators. But this pulasan, because it was along the boundary, we let grow, and it sure did. It flowers at times but I can't recall a crop. Heck, I'm not even sure it's a pulasan though it does have lighter leaves, yet a stalk of flowers similarly, so not a lychee., I got it when the Rare Fruit Council was active in Mossman long years ago. Was painful to have partner chainsaw while carrying some flowers but figgered it might come back with renewed vigour. So I guess that's no answer to you at all!.

Sitting here with cold feet - but if that's all the winter we're going to have I'm very grateful for the rains to this point. When we arrived here in 1987 I was shocked to find we have usually quite a long period of dry between July-November and while we have always an ample supply of water it got real boring keeping fruit trees watered. Disturbing were the cracks in the ground that developed with contraction and while only slightly crisp underfoot in the lawns not nearly as dry as back across the river.

I always had the impression the tropics got afternoon showers all year round like Florida etc, haha. No such luck, so each dry we're all wondering if fires are going to break out, hence keeping Sentinel in my bookmarks. A couple have come close but I was told the canopy is always too moist to really take off - I hold that thought.

See, asking me a question I tend to babble, you'all are forewarned.