At last we've had a few mls of rain, around 30mls in total I guess with the heaviest being 11mls overnight last week. The lawn, the gardens and the pool all got a top up and a water. But there hasn't been any showers to mention for 3 or 4 days now and the grass is beginning to yellow off again!
It has been low 30's almost every day over January with just the odd day dipping below 30 in February. By the time I am finishing my bike ride at around 7:30 am, it is nudging 27° and it's pretty sticky!
I don't think this summer has been as hot as some others we have had up here. There was only one day we turned the lounge room air conditioner on so far and that was yesterday! Not that it was a hot stinker of a day, it was that we put together a flat pack computer desk for Trish and we needed something to keep tempers cool!
But the two of us together sorted it out. It is only a cheap thing, something where Trish can spread herself out a little bit when doing her sewing or Secretary role work for the Arts Centre Association. Now she can easily access the fan controls and get more value from the ceiling fan as well. It is an Aldi Special. The most difficult part was putting the drawer runners in the correct way.
But the illustrations from the Instruction Booklet helped a little bit along with some calculated trial and error.
We tossed out an older 32" TV, a small computer table on wheels and the table which held the TV. The TV went to the tip but the other two items were collected by a neighbour this morning off our front lawn.
I'm still doing my Presidential chores for the Community Association, keeping the website up to date and getting the first Newsletter for 2019 ready to print. We've had our first Management Committee meeting for the year and the follow up onto the website has occurred. We are dropping from 8 newsletters per year to 6 and that just takes some of the pressure off.
Most days are around 33° in our small hot backyard, the pool got up to 32° one day and I continue to bike ride most days. There is a brew on (as usual) and I will be bottling on Wednesday.
Our NBN internet connection continues to fly along and we always have too many TV series to watch. There are some good movies in there as well. We especially enjoyed "Bohemian Rhapsody" so get along and see that one if you get the chance. BBC in England has been busy with new episodes of Vera, Silent Witness, Call The Midwife and Endeavour which has kept me busy downloading.
And there is heaps more downloads that I grab on the way past as well.
Trish is out and about a fair bit during the week with here CACA stuff. School holidays are now well and truly over so it is safe to drive into Caloundra again. Just so you can compare, Caloundra over Christmas is a bit like a poor man's Rosebud down in Victoria. It is crowded and very very busy.
Travel plans for the year have been put on hold a bit while we get over our trip to Manila and the associated bad tummies we picked up. It took till around mid January before we were totally over it.
We are driving to Melbourne for the first two rounds of the footy which is all we have thought about at this stage.
But we are both well pretty busy and enjoying ourselves here on the Sunshine Coast!
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