front of the road house, was hard trying to get the galah to fly thru on cue! 

young birds just hatched in the nest in the fence of the veggie garden, mum and dad give me a hard time everytime I go in to turn on the sprinklers, one of the chix was trying to fly the other day, only managed to get off the ground to a branch about head high as i came in, didnt the parents go off at me!!! if only they knew what was to come........

 every storm now, I go round next morning to see where the trees have fallen, this one is behind the veggie garden, the branch laying on the shade clothe is almost directly above the birds nest, when i went in with the chain saw, it was like a bloody three ring circus, me, mum and dad, the lead for the modem in the house is at the back and below the main branch of the tree, its a blue lead running off the roof of the veggie garden if you use your imagination you may find it, so the tree finished up as a pile of firewood,

bloke knocked on our front door at midnight, he had driven in from 50k out on three tyres and this! he got told rather unpolitely, that, no i really wasnt going to help, so piss off and when we open at 8am come and try again. he eventually left here about 11am after warburton community sent a p/o for new rim/tyre. oh, and this one is down at the tip if anyone wants it.

 this "creek" is the fire break at the back of the house, after the really big storm.......

that also turned the tip into a lake............

and I also got to close the road, only problem was, the laverton shire sent the email to close it at 3.30 we close at 3pm on weekends, so didnt get email till we turned on the system next morning,  never can work out that mob from the shire?

mitsubishi are sending engineers out to take the specs of this, will be include in their next update of the pajero range.

and so, as the sun sinks slowly in the west..... thats the fire fighting trailer just over the fence.

I was sat out the back, in the Tjuka Bar, watching the idiot box, when this Perenti turned up. I came in to get the camera and when I got back out there he was "hiding" behind the beer fridge. the print I downloaded from was right way up, but, the blog seemed to like it on its side and I couldnt turn it round again, use your imagination!!!

Took about 20mins but he finally came back out, every time I picked up the camera he would look to see what I was doing, I reckon he was only about 1m long, think they get a bit bigger. 

He climbed around the wall for a while and eventually left, I thought,

When Lyn came out, I told her about him as she went to get something out of the van, which was parked in the carport, the little buggar had gone around the corner and was hanging on the wall in the carport at head height and scared hell out of her when she saw him!

AND THEN WE HAD THE STORM!

wind came up and blew like hell, there was a giant red dust cloud ahead of the rain, main storm only lasted about 10-15mins, as they do! we got rain on/off all night and next morning when i read the rain gauge for BOM we had 7.4mm in the 24hrs from 0900 27th, pretty much by 1000 28th apart for a couple of puddles, ground had dried out and looked like we hadnt had rain in days all that remained was the clean up!

This branch came off the tree in the background, at the height of the storm we were at the back door of the roadhouse watching the tree threshing about in the wind, surprised only this little brach came off.

In the background, between the two black and white striped posts, you can almost see the rain gauge on the ground, gets read daily(when we get rain) at 0900 and entered on BOM website.

thats the backpacker units in background and roadhouse on right, oh, and, if you look closely theres a fallen branch in foreground.

this is other side of roadhouse, with the brick........... dunnies in background next to telstra phn box.
probly good bit of positionment for anyone who tries to talk to telstra!

Did one run to tip with ute full of trees, picked up trailer on way back for second trip,

this bastard I had to wrap the chain around and drag it free with the ute! snapped one strand of barbed wire, which, when I stood the fence back up again,  two ends came up short! must be a new alignment to what Al had.

thats the house in the background, the TJUKA BAR is in behind the outside bistro curtain thingos, and beer garden hidden behind the little tree on the left.