On Holidays

Hi All
Well day three of the holidays and I am back at work. Year 12 results are out today. The boss is really happy.... the results are really good. I'm taking the chance to catch up on the blog as I am computerless at the moment. During a thunderstorm the screen has gone a bit dodgy so it is in getting repaired and given that it is a school computer I'm not sure if I'll get it back over the holidays.

We had a big blow on the weekend. Over 500 mm of rain and winds almost up to 100km/h. We had two trees come down. A big African mahogany out the back and unfortnately the acacia on the front fence with the lovely yellow flowers. We have pruned it back however and stood it back up and hopefully it will recover. We were actually pretty lucky with the mahoganysomehow it missed the house and landed on the neighbours fence. I have cleaned it up and the neighbour and I have rebuilt the fence. The next job is to try and get rid of anything else that may come down in a cyclone. It was a good warning as to how much damage could be done and we got off relatively lightly, elsewhere trees landed on cars and houses and the low has moved to WA and become a catagory 4 cyclone.
If Claire brings her computer home tonight or tomorrow I will try to upload some photos.

Claire finishes up this Friday and we head off to Alice on Tuesday but should only be away for about a week. Then it will be sit back and enjoy the monsoon hopefully without any cyclones.

We have pulled our vegie garden out for the wet but we have planted a mango tree towards the front of the yard. And yes Zak we have bananas down near the front of the pool. Speaking of which, all the rain has started it going green so that will be a job to do before heading off.

Thats about all for now.

Cheers
Marty and Claire