Thread: Send her down, hughie!

We have been having showers all day so far , hope it keeps coming at this rate good soaking in rain & will not runoff.

Certainly nice to see a return to the typical tropical summer pattern here of a humid day day building up to a storm.
I just checked the tanks and we still need plenty more, so I won't be cancelling the water delivery booked for January 8.

Put all the por plants out in the rain & 15mins later the sun came out & has not rained since. Hope we get some more tomorrow like they say we are.

Hello from Sherwood.

We got around 38mm yesterday and a little more overnight.

I’ve been spending about six hours each Friday watering young trees at the Arboretum for a couple of months - nice to get a week off.

Cheers,

Neil

Another 22.35 mm here yesterday and 7.87 mm since midnight.

As I'm off to Moreton tomorrow morn, I'm trusting the tracks will have improved with the rain and the water tanks to be OK.

Close to another 30mm last night. Feeling slightly guilty, considering what is happening in other parts of our dry land, but if its starting here, surely a good sign for elsewhere. Fingers crossed. AND, the rain will make Moreton island sand that little bit firmer. Win, win.

Just spent two hours pumping water from the smallest of our 3 tanks, which was full, to our biggest tank, which was only half full. The biggest tank was recently scrubbed clean and the water filtered. The third tank off the shed is full.
More rain is predicted before more heat at the weekend.

I was interested in "hughie".

Looked it up and it's just an Australian euphinism for dog spelled backwards.

Seems to have no official history or logic to its use.

Someone outback must have said it once, maybe Patterson or Lawson.....and the kids picked it up.