Not again!!!!!!!

Yep, again.

Big wind = more enormous tree limbs falling on our fence, and on other trees.

At least this time they missed the chicken coop and the new gate. At least 3 huge limbs fell, judging from these trees (L) - and there's still one hanging there waiting to fall. There used to be a nice shady native tree under all that mess that the chickens liked to sit under (R).

So it's time to call our friend with the chainsaw as those branches are too heavy to lift, let alone move. Really, I am very tempted to get all these trees pulled down and replaced with something else!

Heaven help any rabbits that decide to wander in - they will be doggie dinner!!

Over on the other side of the garden there's more evidence of the wind - although hard to see in the photo - I found small branches from the gum trees (L of pic) embedded in the fruit cage fence (r of pic). Now THAT's windy!

There were also a few wattles down on the driveway that I had to move so Jerry could get to work. Relatively small ones - one (about 7 ft tall) was completely uprooted.

I love a good storm

By a good storm I mean one that has lots of thunder and lightning and rain. Particularly the rain part. We often have great storms here in summer but they invariably have lots of lightning and no rain. A BAD combination in fire season.

However today we had a doozie of a storm. It went on for about an hour - lightning (fork and sheet), seemingly never ending thunder, and about 5 mm of rain. More would have been better, but hey, I'm not going to complain :)

I sat out on the back verandah with the hounds (who are not the least bit perturbed by storms) and watched the show - after turning off and unplugging all electrical appliances, phones and dog fences, of course!

I caught a snippet on camera - even managed to get some lightning - so you can enjoy a bit of the show - just love the combined sound of thunder in the heavens and rain in the gutters.