Some Morning Showers

The weather radar was telling us that we should batten down the hatches Thursday afternoon and get ready for a storm. Large hail had been reported to the west of us and we could be in for a battering.

This morning there is less than 1mm of rain in the gauge, the weather seen in the map to the left continued to slide to the south of us in a n/w wind stream. It is raining as I type but nothing like the weather we were expecting. The photo below is taken from one of today's papers and shows the rain some people got overnight!


With the wet weather we aren't riding today which is good because I have had a sore throat for over a week now and probably need to get in to see a doctor about it.

We are still debating over what to do with the area where the palm was. The sticking point is to get rid of the soil. One of the bike riders Paul suggests we could get rid of it ourselves. With three of us it should only take a couple of hours. Paul has a kind of jack-hammer which would be extremely handy if we ran into any tough dirt to chip away. We would use Tony's trailer and have two wheel barrows going in tandem. The soil would be free to dump.

I think this is what we will most probably do. With three of us it shouldn't take much longer than a few hours to do. It saves about $300 off the cost of having colored patterned concrete laid.

We bought this 'Gecko' yesterday. Gecko's are small lizard animals (about 6 inches long) which live in the tropics. They are found in most people's homes up here and spend much of the day behind pictures or hiding from view. This one looks pretty good hanging on the back outside wall of the house.

I couldn't sleep last night because of my sore throat so I watched the end of the cricket on Pay-TV. Australia took 4 for 15 or so to snatch a highly improbable win at the end. I finished up getting to bed about 3:00 am!