Rain On Its Way

The dishwasher still sits idly and still not checked. We have to remove everything from under the sink to get to the hoses and power lead. It will possibly take an hour or two to check and this isn't high on the agenda just now. Trish is getting ready to head to Melbourne and working on the website for the Arts Centre Association. She is enjoying it a lot. This has put the dishwasher on the 'not so important' list!

It is a delightful day outside, hardly a cloud in the sky and a stiff breeze blowing in off the ocean. As usual here, the warmest time of the day will be around lunchtime. The cooler prevailing sea breeze usually kicks in early afternoon and the temperature usually begins to fall be it ever so slowly during the afternoon. I did 14ks today on the bike and the pool was a whisker under 26 this morning. It will get to over 28 in the pool later today.

Click on the pool photo for a larger view.

The water level is down a little with some evaporation over the last few days. Some showers followed by rain is expected overnight and early tomorrow. The hose into the pool's skimmer box that you can see at the top of the photo above left is connected to a storm water diverter built in to one of the downpipes from the roof (click on the photo to the left for a larger view). When it rains, water from the roof is diverted via the hose into the pool. The pool probably needs 3 or 4 cms to top it up to be full again. With the diverter about 10mls of rain should be enough to do this.

We watched the movie "Red Hill" last night. It is an Aussie movie created by the same team who made "Wolf Creek" which was a bit of a horror flick with plenty of violence and action. You can see the similarities in movie style when watching "Red Hill". It wasn't too bad.

I take Trish to Maroochydore airport tomorrow morning (Thursday) at 8:30 am. She flies out at 10:30. This is 11:30 in Melbourne as they have daylight saving. Trish is due to be collected from Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne at about 2:15 pm. It is a good idea to be earlier rather than later when flying with these budget airlines nowadays.