Storms.

We had our first storm for the year on Sunday.  I was home with 4 dogs and we all hid behind the lounge.  IT WAS SCAREY!  Afterwards I saw that the trampoline had blown up against the fence again...It's stuck so will have to stay there until husband gets home.

A lot of the apples ended up on the ground as well as a heap of oranges.  Same with the Indian Guavas but I'm not too concerned about those, the chooks can have them.  I'll need to wipe these over and store them somewhere.

 This is a massive shed not far from us and the brown roller door was flapping around on Sunday.  It's not in place now so will be flapping again tonight.

A few trees out the front have snapped off, neighbour had a couple of trees down..

I found a strange thing...in the driveway between son's car and my van was lots of broken glass.  At first I thought one of us had lost a windscreen but all windows are intact.  Maybe some glass got blown in...dunno, but there is quite a bit and it looks like glass from a windscreen...it wasn't there earlier in the day, before the storm.

Bleedin' gas hotwater heater blew out again and I cannot relight the stupid thing.  Every time we get strong winds this thing blows out.  We had it serviced not long ago and the guy was getting it to light sraight away so I have no idea why I cant do the same.  If I get to the stage where I can't stand my smelly self I will bring the camping shower inside. 
We had no power for maybe 20 hours.   It's times like this when I really appreciate my small house and the woodfire.
Have spoken with someone in Brunswick Junction and nearly 2 days later and they still have no power so all her homegrown veg and other food may have to go for dogfood.  

The chookpens are waterlogged and muddy and I need to put dry hay in their sheds this afternoon.

We got off pretty lightly and hope for the same tonight but must get out there and see what I can do before the next one gets here.  Stay safe everyone.  Take care.

Winter Wednesday.

Hazel has a Winter Wednesday post each week where she asks her readers what they like about Winter.

I like that the Oranges are ready for eating.  Picked straight from the tree and eaten within minutes.

I like that I can have the fire going and it makes the house all warm and cosy.
It make it easy and cheap to whip up a quick lunch.

I like the rain, which is just as well as it's rained most of the day here in WA.
I like winter as we can get all rugged up and get warm.  Easier than trying to get cool in the middle of Summer.
Big pots of soup that use up all the manky vegies.


I do like Winter even though the rain may put a damper on my Adventuring tomorrow.