47mm for the past 2 days....thats pretty much an average of an inch or so a day over the past week and gthe round is just so sloppy..

We actually are getting some sunny periods just now with the radar to the SE looking pretty clear..

Soon as the sun appeared the chookies started falling on their sides and lifting their wings to try and catch a few rays...poor gals nust be getting sick of it too..fortunately one side of my big shed is still unconcreted so at least they can still fluff up and get a dust bath which seems an essential part of their day..

Hey 28 when you mentioned doing a bit of couch surfing did you mean throug the actual couchsurfing platform or staying with friends and family..?

and $600 poorer but Dexter is looking and feeling better with his pills and antibiotics working their magic...

Still showering 20mm this morning.

Laying in bed listening to a heavy shower through the night I realized that I've had
over 10m of rain in 16.5 months
10394mm that is 409" or 34'
It is also day 133 and I've had 108 recordings. This needed thinking about after getting up, still far to early.


Cheers

Normally I love being warm and dry in bed and listening to rain bucketing down. Last night I was woken up by heavy rain and my first thought was “ %@#$ more #@f rain” 😁

8mm overnight here, 72.5 so far for May. The average is 101mm so we should beat that.

MAY: 72.5mm
YTD: 2441.5mm

Oh I know the feeling mate

35mm yesterday and 30mm this morning. Rain every day so far for May. Not far off 4m now

Have not mowed for ages, it's long but not huge yet as nothing is really growing much.


Cheers

Yep, Weary. It's *permanent*.
https://www.cairns.qld.g...ter-use-and-restrictions

75mm the past 4 days..

Even when its mostly sunny over the past couple of days the nights still deliver the wet stuff...

We even try and use the vehicles as little as possible to minimise the damage to grass and driveway..

Bunyip we had a period like that back in 99 and 00 where the El Arish Post office meaured 6400 and 5900 back to back years ...it was not fun living in a unpowered caravan with no running water and a hand-dug longdrop toilet with a young baby on a creek flat that had just been cleared but windrows not burnt up and no drainage or road installed...I had to build the first road by multiple trailerloads of fill backed across the creek and raising a car width track 100m in to where we first lived.....i also dug by hand the trench for phone and power..we just couldnt even get a machine in to do anything and bogged a D6 dozer in the first month of owning the place which then needed a another dozer to be brought in to get the first one out...it was so wet the dozer that pushed up the windrows pushed as much mud into them as timber and i spent months on the chainsaw and tractor cutting up and pulling them apart out of the dirt and restacking to actually be able to burn the bloody stuff..mostly it was too wet to use the old tractor so i cut the logs and chucked them on top of the larger logs and stumps and used a crowbar to knock out the dirt between the roots on the upended stumps to get them to dry and burn...plenty of times logs were cut and stacked to get the tractor out of bogs too...

Needless to say i spent a very long time on a tractor with a back blade shaping and filling and draining the ground after living through that..now we have no surface water laying anywhere but with this constant wet the ground just remains saturated as it does everywhere..

It certainly was an eye-opening experience as a first time landowner and stay at home dad..and i actually loved every minute of it..

I would hate to just live in a house on a quarter acre block and dread the thought that I may ever have to retire to such a life..

and it certainly does make you wonder how we have become a society that cant even create a system in the wettest place in the country that doesnt have water shortages...that actually just boggles my mind...

Normal Chillagoe day here.
Bit of white cloud around.
27.6 degrees C
35% humidity - too bleddy dry for me ...😣

More showers on the radar😡
At least I got the yard mowed this morning.

I'm not to worried about getting any mowing done..the grass growth has slowed right down..

Radar showing north of Innisfail starting to get those showers starting to push onto the coast..seems to be all aiming for bunyips house so far but i guess by this evening we will also be back into that familiar pattern of showers and 20 knots of SE wind...

Thankfully the by-product will be warmer nights..Holy cow the past 2 night have been freezing...even the dog jumpers have been pulled out...

There was even a dozen or so intrepid boaters out off Mission beach on Sunday ..didnt look like much fun to me though as a couple returned to the ramp early before lunchtime in centre-consoles with their tail between their legs...