Day 229 in a Year of my Life

The morning of the day that Adoring Husband was returning from Sydney (Wednesday), there was an amazing sunrise.

Unfortunately, I had work commitments and was unable to make the most of it.

I DID, however, take my camera with me and even though the location is not very picturesque, it still shows how awesome the sunrise was.

Then, on the way to the Seat of Knowledge, there was some pretty heavy dew highlighting cobwebs in the sunlight.  This was my favourite.

We've had a very wet, rainy day today, so I didn't get to spend any time at the Seat of Knowledge this morning.

It began to pour with rain as AH and left the Bakery with our coffee.  We stopped briefly at the SOK, as the boys were all scattering to head home.  I was able to give Gentleman Jim a rain poncho as he was leaving, so he didn't have to get too wet.

There was some nasty weather in southern Queensland during the night.  Pratten and Bony Mountain were both hit by severe storms.

The Southern Downs Storm Chasers called the Pratten storm a 'microburst' but they believe that Bony Mountain copped a tornado of sorts, or in their words "dropped a funnel" and say that they found the spot where it first touched ground.

They also stated that this is very unusual storm activity for this time of the year - we seem to be hearing that more and more often.

I was surprised by my emotional reaction when I first read about it and saw the photos.  Just when I think I've recovered nicely, something happens to open the wound again.

Last night there was a ten minute period when the wind picked up so strongly that the noise of it scared the dogs and they jumped up to look out the window.  It made my heart skip a beat.

I guess it's going to take a bit longer yet, to get over it.

Anyway, something nice to come out of the disaster is our new dining suite :) which I absolutely love!

Today I am grateful for bike rides in the rain, when the rain is so heavy that it literally runs down the glass of your sunglasses like a waterfall.  When it fills the lid of your take away coffee so that when you try to take a mouthful, all you get is water.  When you pedal really fast hoping to get out of the rain, but realise halfway home, that you can't get any more wet, so you slow right down and enjoy the wetness as it drenches your clothes and runs down your knees to your ankles and flicks off the back of your thongs as you pedal along.

After all, it's only water :)

Nite all.