March

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Another interesting month.

Rain. So much rain! I dont know the exact figures, but its rained here every day for two weeks or so, the tail of cyclone Debbie really dumped on the area. At one stage we got more than 400ml in 24 hours, some places got 800ml in 24 hours! All the valleys funneled the water right into Lismore, which flooded the hardest it has done since 1974. 11.55m the river rose! Lismore is smashed all the shops were ruined. But I am amazed how quick they clean up.

My property seems to have come through pretty much unscathed. Got a bit of mould to deal with and one or two roof leaks, but did pretty well all considered.

I feel like this month has bee up and down for me motivationally, rain is a good excuse not to do anything, but I really felt flat a lot of the time.

I have decided to try using coffee to see if I can stimulate more motivation and energy.

I tried my first cup of coffee for about 10 years. Woah. Sweats, tremors, compulsive eating, jaw clenching. Strong stuff. I will continue the experiment.

While Jess has been away working, I have been chopping down problem trees, moving rubbish about, plotting and planning the future, and trying to make the place look nice. I have no photos of my progress for some reason, but lots of photos of other things. Ive been pretty disappointed with the amount of work I got done, but the rain really got in the way so Im not beating myself up about it.

I had to chop a couple of trees down as they were starting to lean dangerously towards my generator shed.

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One of my lophs is growing a flower out its side. Weird.

My first Brug flower on the new bush. Happy.

The local creek swollen. Apparently it topped the bridge I was standing on for this picture at peak.

This hole happened overnight. The whole road is chewed up from the water, some spots much worse than this and crisscossing the road. Dont know why this is the one I decided to photo but there it is.

Old mate kookaburra.

Some photos of landslip devastation. This one was over 5 metres deep. A safe distance from my property, but it does make me a little anxious knowing this slope was well treed and it still went down. Fortunately my block seems to drain well.

My new temporary waterfall

Ihave quite a few waterfalls at the moment actually.

So this is the dam above capacity. Some slips on the wall but still holidng. Its going to need some work once the waters recede.

The little picnic area and swimming entrance completely underwater.

The spillway spilling

A tree that fell down, old and rotten. fortunately the bit that fell missed my favorite fungi Ihave found so far. Ido believe this is Gandermus.. but i Could be wrong. It is rather large.

This is a water dragon I rescued. He was not in a good way and had to be euthanased. Im still going to call it rescuing even if they die.

This naughty little baby wanted in the house via the washing line. Ihad to discourage him with the umbrella.

He was very persistant.

It has rained every day for two weeks. We are all a little bored of being stuck inside so much.

More cool house spiders

New friend on a aloe I was gifted.