Rain!

After a particularly dry beginning to 2012, the rain gods have raised their heads and gave us a downpour yesterday and with even more stormy weather expected today. The wet weather started with a prediction of a few 'showers' late Sunday. More light showers had been predicted for Monday. We therefore decided to leave the gazebo up.

The rain continued to fall for much of Monday with some stronger winds developing. So much for the "Few Showers" forecast we had on Sunday! During a brief lull in the rain Monday afternoon Trish and I quickly dismantled the gazebo just to be safe and put it under the pergola 'just in case'.

By 7:30 this morning (Tuesday) the rainfall total has been just over 100mls with even windier and stormier weather expected to develop later this morning.

The lawns and gardens have welcomed the rain especially after a very dry beginning to 2012. As you can see from this photo the pool is again topped up with the built in skimmer box overflow working draining excessive pool water to the street via the storm water drains. I am sure a bag of salt will be required when the rain ceases following the overflow of water washing some of the salt into the street. Any clearance of rain isn't really expected until later in the week.

It seems much of today will be spent like yesterday and that was watching the Australian Open on TV. As we have Pay TV there is a great spread of matches. We get the free to air coverage as well as four other matches to choose from on Pay TV. One of the Pay TV matches is shown in High Definition which gives a wonderful high quality picture. It really stands out in quality from the channel 7 picture quality and the three other games on Pay TV.

I was little dizzy recently when I first got up in the morning and I felt something was amiss with my right ear. It seems I again have another middle ear infection and I am again on anti-biotics.

Our plans to head out today for a lunch on the balcony at the Mapleton Tavern with Ian and Kerrie have been put on hold till the weather improves.