Just for Something Different...

Now I'm not going to complain a great deal, but for the sake of all the people in central Queensland... Mother Nature we've had enough rain thank you!!! Enough is enough it's time to let it dry out so people get back to their homes!!

It is raining here again.. We live in south - east Queensland which is below central Queensland. We are not affected but it is very sad to see the towns close byish getting hammered by the floods.

Everything is SO wet that there is nowhere for water to go put in big puddles.



I got a call from Ben before to have a look at this. This is our front garden under our steps to the front of our house.



Ben had to dig a make shift drain for the water to get away so it would build up and seep into the bar area.



This is a snap shot of our back yard. Pretty sure if you click on the photo it will enlarge it and you will notice all the little water courses flowing down our yard..


We have had some sunshine recently, on Sunday we got out the Slip and Slide the boys got for Christmas. It was alot of fun on a very hot sunny steamy day!




Slip and Slide.



Wyatt enjoying himself!!


Now to update you quickly on our New years and Christmas days.

New Years was a blast, we had some friends over for drinks and food, played a board game laughed lots. All round lots of fun! We had a visitor at 3.30am in the morning. We all weren't sure if we were seeing things or not, But Ben got a photo of it..



A little Silver Fox came down to visit us.. He Must have been hungry as he didn't run off and got fairly close to us.. We have found out since that they are a pest to our native wildlife etc... He hasn't come back that we've seen anyway, we are not always up at 3.30 am haha. Ben wants to get "rid" of him... I'm not so sure how i feel about it.. I'll get back to you lol.



This is what our Christmas day entailed. Boating, fishing, Swimming a little sunshine lots of food and family!! PERFECT!!


Right now I'm working most days, as it's a couple of weeks to school resumes we have a back to school sale for shoes, lots of parents lots of shoes 4 very tired sales assistants only a couple of weeks into the sale haha, but we will prevail sip on our cold coffee's in between serving and get through it!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New year celebrations, I wish you all the very best for 2011. And a BIG thinking of everyone in central Queensland lets hope the rains let up and we all dry out for awhile. Fingers crossed.

A Photo and Video Montage of Our Week!

This is what our past week has been like.



Sun shining with white fluffy clouds one moment.



Dark and rainy the next!

So the boys took to playing in the house.



Cooking in the oven!



Mixing their pretend food up before cooking it.



And pulling out all the containers to lay down in the cupboard!!




The video's (hopefully both load for me) are of the boys playing inside. They always seem to have extra energy on rainy days! So in between the catch up on my cleaning we played lots of silly indoor games!



Lets hope the rain clears up properly soon, so we can recover from our (lil boys) snotty noses before winter hits and they're snotty all the time!

In my last post i mentioned Blue eyes temperatures. Well That night Blue eyes hit 39.2c. Which is now his magic number as it was 39C. So we dodged a bullet, Ben came home from work. I thought we were in for a bad night of temps. But he had a decent sleep (in between us, that's why). So i think, if i hadn't of checked him when i did, he would have had a convulsion for sure! Its been 5 months since his last, 2 and a half weeks away from being a year since his first... I'm a little worried. But we will get through these weeks. He can breath better through his snotty nose now, so that doesn't worry me as much...

I need warming up, it's time for another cuppa!

We have a creek in our yard, if only it wasn't seasonal!!

After the recent rain on the weekend, we've also had a monsoon low pass over us, and bucket a constant amount of rain on us. Our yard was already soggy from previous rain so this lot has just been skimming across the top and pooling down in our back corner. Our yard is on a bit of a hill so it all flows down to one corner. Hence we have a creek!! The photo and video don't show just how much water is sitting in our yard.

The video didn't go for very long as i had a friend call me asking if she and her partner could stay the night as they are flooded out of their house. We have a town about a 40 minute drive south from our town, if this area gets a substantial amount of rain it flows into our local river. The Mary river. And it then floods communities and our town as it flows through. Sometimes it is only minor flooding small creeks etc. But sometimes we get HUGE floods, and the water takes over our main street, flooding all the shops and local parks. So you can imagine the hype happening in our town today after the consistent rain. Everyone is on flood watch checking the weather website waiting for it to rise. The last major flood we had was in 1999 and it peaked at 21.95 meters. The highest on record was in 1893 which peaked at 25.45 meters. So from our humble home in the wet, we wait to see how high it will get. We are thankfully away from the flood zone the most we get is our little creek!










This is our back corner, i told Ben it was a good spot for a pond, then realised it would need major adjustments so the goldfish wouldn't get washed away!





This is a photo of one side of the main town, on the left is where the river lies, to the right of the photo is where the main street is. When it peaks high it makes alot of damage!



Well its time to go and check how much higher it is, isn't the wonderous world of the web fabulous! I remember being young and having to drive with mum and dad down to the river to see how high it was, now we have special devices submitting the information to the web!! I can stay dry! I hope your dry!