Trip to Canberra

In March we drove down to Canberra for Lee's birthday. After the rain, the countryside was looking very nice and we enjoyed the trip with morning tea at Inglewood, Texas, lunch in a nice park at Yetman, double scoop incecreams at Bingara then we camped overnight at Gunnedah with a swim in the pool.
Next day we stopped for morning tea at Gulgong. The park had a start to autumn colours. It is an interesting old gold town with old buildings and narrow streets. The little kids were out on an excursion with their teachers all dressed in period costumes. At Wellington the trees were starting to colour, and we had lunch at the cricket oval at Molong where a local reporter took our photo for an article about nice places in their town. At Cowra we had an icecream in the rose garden then we got to Canberra by 4.30.

Back on target

I failed to deliver the first book at our Genealogy discussion group last week. It was a breakthrough to admit it and today I feel that I have done it. Of course there will still be little things to fiddle with but I am ready to move onto the next task in my 2010 writing project.
I have enjoyed sorting through and getting over the final hurdles. I have started a Wellington photo album online and still have quite a task to sort the photos.
I had thought that I would complete Judah's Petition next. For some reason, I thought I had completed the transcription and only needed to edit and index, but today I find that I am only up to page 70, and the last page is 191, so that project is now deferred and I will move onto Vail and Sergeant. It will be a short month as we will be away for at least half of it.

Wet and windy

We have been waiting for a tropical rain event, to replenish our soil moisture, for years. This week we have a couple of lows around and limited visibility.
Tuesday walk has been cancelled and we have already exceeded our March average rainfall. Our tanks runneth over.
In February we had 163 mm. Previous years have been 89, 105, 56, 56, 11 - and our monthly average [13 years] has declined from 122 to 110.
I have removed a spreading weed from the paddock in the past couple of weeks and we have been busy mowing. The bluegrass is growing well and there are not many bare patches left as couch is also spreading on the block. The summer grass [annual] has been doing very well and we shall see what the paddock looks like once it dies off, but it has provided good cover during the recent rain.
Despite our good rainfall, I am still finding the soil quite dry beneath the mulch, when I dig holes to plant things.

Looking back at how the place was when we came in October 2004, things have certainly grown.
September 09 is already out of date.
October 2004
February 2010