A Day Without Rain!

At last we have had a day where no rain has fallen despite the couple of mls I tipped out of the gauge from yesterday.  Those couple of mls sure caused some hassles though as Trish put a load of washing on the line.

The showers were "on and off" several times across the day, but eventually the washing dried and has now been put away.

I even managed a bike ride this morning as well and 'did' a little over 17k's.

The heavy rain is expected to arrive again on Saturday morning and should last for a couple of days.  It is expected to drop up to 200mls during this rain event.  Often the heavier falls are localized so you get the full 200mls if you are stuck under a non-moving thunderstorm!  Otherwise a total of  around 100mls is expected.

The new blinds were installed today.  The new blinds are slightly shorter than the previous set and are a very different color.  The shorter blinds were done for several reasons.

Of course being shorter they are less expensive, but now allow a greater movement of air beneath them, keep out minimally less sun and finally, are that little bit lighter to roll up.  This later fact is extremely important when I manually roll up the longer 3m blind.

The longer blind is around 30cms shorter again than the other two blinds. It shouldn't be so much of a hassle now to roll up nice and tight by hand.

I suspect the material is lighter in weight as well which also makes them less heavy to roll up nice and tightly by hand.  But overall I am more than pleased with the outcome.