Rain. Again.

We had 88mm of rain between 5pm yesterday and 9am this morning. That is the single biggest 24hrs of rainfall here in 3 years. It brings our annual total to 1140mm. Yep, more than 1m of rain, and no we haven't moved to Queensland! This is 70% more than 2009,  and a whopping 108% more than 2008, and there is still 6 weeks of the year to go. 

Mad really. 

But "what has it done to the chart Dave?" ( with apologies to Dave Gorman's Important Astrological Experiement). I'm glad you asked........

Needless to say after refilling the small amount of water we've used since the last lot of rain the tank just overflowed.......

Happy to be living in a Supertramp song

It's raining again..........



36mm in the last 2 days, and it's STILL raining. Not to mention blowing a gale (literally) and only 7 degrees outside - the wind is definitely blowing from the snowfields! I have decided that it's a very good day to be inside near the fire. I might even catch up on some preserving.

There's rain in that thar gauge...

At last check there was 10mm rain from today - HURRAH! This is the most rain on one day since 17th December 2008. In fact this year's rain stats are looking pretty depressing

• Last year in the period 1 Jan - 12 March we had recorded 46mm (and measuring didn't actually start until Feb 2nd). This year in the same period we have had 24mm.
• The last best rainfall day was on 22 Jan - nearly 2 months ago, and that was only 4mm

It's true that we get most of our rain in July-Sep, but we would normally expect to have had 20-30mm a month to this point.

Maybe it's time to start re-defining normal?

More rain

Yes, it's true, we ARE rain obsessed! But we had more yesterday and today, and the promise of more tomorrow. As long as it doesn't come with yesterday's gale force winds I'll be happy (and so will the veg patch).

Today I picked the last of the potato crop - in a few weeks I'll have to go back to buying them, which will be a big disappointment. On the bright side another cabbage was ready for picking today, and half of it (only a small cabbage) will be on the plate for dinner tonight!



Soon we will have another exciting addition to the 'farm' - stay tuned!!

Rainy days in May

FANTASTIC!! We have had some rain - over a few days even. Because we're about the only people within 500 klm without a rain guage I can't tell you how much we received, but the ground is still damp 2 days leter, which is great.

Unfortunately one bit of rain was preceeded by a severe storm, and we had a direct lightning strike to the substation power pole in the paddock. Bye bye 2 light globes, modem, and one of our phone sockets. We were also without power for 7 hours....and with no power we have no water (as no pumps to pump it from the tank). It's times like these you realise how addicted to power (ie the Internet!!) you really are.

But $150 later we have a new modem, and we'll get around to getting the phone socket/cabling replaced sometime...

I've created a flikr account for our photos for those of you that want less words and more PIKCHURES (yes, Artmummy, I AM talking about you). There's a link to the page on the left menu bar under more photos...the address is http://www.flickr.com/photos/nigeandgabs/. There are already some photos of our recent mini-break to the alpine region (and yes Anita, even one of both of us!!! but be warned, it's not a glamour shot hahaha)