The joys of living in Australia

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

It's now 43C here, the car thermometer is a couple of degrees out, there is a grass fire out of control at Kangaroo Ground just to the north of us, so we are keeping a close watch on what's going on.

Hi Keith

We hit 45C today and the weather forecast is for 45C tomorrow, 46C on Thursday and 43C on Friday, so my friend I am sorry but it will hit you the next day. I suggest you stock up with cold drinks and stay indoors with the air conditioner. We are receiving reports of bush fires due to lighting strikes.

Cheers

Tony

[hrpearce]

A nice barmy 36.7c here today. I had to add hydrolyte to my water a couple of times spraying in Betty's hills.
Lucky escape Keith, so far I have only sprayed one eastern brown this year to get him to change direction.

[Wayne Henderson]

We had this lovely weather last Friday. Saturday was 43-46 depending which suburb you live in.

Some little charmers started a fire in bushland in the western suburbs that burnt out a few sheds including a storage area for a charity group.

Saturday saw 50+ home destroyed in the Stoneville and Parkerville area, Fire fighters fought that one in 45 degree heat but it may have been hotter next to burning houses...

The same old chestnut will pop up again about people building in semi rural areas and not clearing trees away from blah blah blah.

I love it and wouldn't live anywhere else (apart from Belgium in a mansion between a whisky distillery and a Finishing School for Young Ladies.)

Stay safe.

[Marc Montgomery]

Whenever I hear about these massive floods, or disastrous fires I always wonder if any restored or restorable vehicles are lost.

Unfortunately news of the massive fires in Oz in the past few years is not widely broadcast in Canada, probably even less so in the US?

ya know- a few years ago I would be more interested in the finishing school for young ladies, but now id be more interested in the old whiskey

PS- Rob...did you try the passion fruit...man I looooooove that stuff but cant afford it here.

[Dianaa]

Yes a number of restored WWII vehicles were lost in the recent Winmalee (Blue Mountains) bushfires. Second time the owner has lost vehicles in fires.

Another Vietnam vet lost a captured NVA AK47, I believe from the Long Tan battle.

[Barry Churcher]

I can't believe how nonchalant Keith is about stepping on a snake. It takes a better man than me to still be staying in the same house. Janet gave me the heads up about a harmless garter snake she spotted going into a brush pile that I had just made. It's been three years and I still haven't gone near that pile.
Hats off to the Aussies.
Cheers,
Barry

[Dianaa]

Originally Posted by Barry Churcher

I can't believe how nonchalant Keith is about stepping on a snake.
<snip>.
Hats off to the Aussies.
Cheers,
Barry

We have a couple of pet red bellied blacks in the hay sheds.

They keep down the mice numbers and being territorial seem to keep the tiger snakes in the creek away from the sheds.

When we take a bale of hay off a pile, you sometimes find a joe black sleeping, so you put the bale back down and pick up the next one. Much rather be bitten by a black than a tiger or brown. (Nasty pieces of work those browns.)