Heat

[cookie1]

Great, I'm glad some of the rain reached you.

[brazen20au]

thank goodness it's been quite pleasant here, not keen on temps around 40!

[Thermomixer]

Should start a rain thread - Melbourne had its monthly rainfall in one day.

Chelsea - maybe you spoke too soon about the temp in Tassie - I see there have been fires there too.

[judydawn]

DD1 in Melbourne was telling me last night that your dams are still very low though - ours in SA are over 90% full she tells me (how she knows these things and I don't is a mystery).  You obviously are just not getting the rain that you used to get. 

[Thermomixer]

Not for the last 8 years or so - it has been really bad - especially in the catchment areas.  The govt was too slow at stopping people washing down the paths with water and washing cars on the side of the road.  If they had introduced restrictions 2 or 3 years earlier we would probably still be over 50% capacity.

[judydawn]

They had to release some water recently from one of our dams.  What a pity they just didn't tell us all to wash our cars with a hose, not a bucket & wash down our houses and roller doors.  When water was plentiful (in the good old days) I used to love giving our house a good squirt down to freshen things up. They have allowed the water restrictions to be relaxed a little now and we are allowed to water up to 5 hours a week between certain hours morning and evening so, as long as people don't abuse it and spoil it for us all, our gardens should start looking a little better this summer. Mind you, we have plans to rip everything out at the front and make it low maintenance (going to cost a fortune) because this garden is just too big for me to maintain on my own and if we are going to stay here for many more years, something has to be done.  Anyone know a good landscape gardener in S.Aust - I know exactly what I want.  DD2 works at a place who supply fake grass so that will be covered for the lower level and I want everything in the top level ripped out & replanted with yukkas, flaxes and agave type plants with river pebbles. Now all I have to do is find someone to do it for me - I can't even get things going by removing the plants myself at the moment although in the New Year ........

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

Chelsea - maybe you spoke too soon about the temp in Tassie - I see there have been fires there too.

There are fires in other parts of the state.  We are still singing "It's raining, it's pouring" here.  Our vegie garden has gone berserk in this warm but wet weather. 

[cookie1]

Don't you go over doing it young Judy. Take it slowly and only rip out a few things a day!!