Problematic

Well the weather forecasters have been pretty spot on so far.

Tin Can Bay has received more than 450mm of rain and have SES crews from Burrum Heads, Maryborough and Hervey Bay sent on location preparing for the worst.

Bundaberg was completely cut off in all directions by midday today. I don’t know if that has changed since the rain eased.

Childers received 155mm and The Gypsy at Dallarnil is completely surrounded by water and her vegetable gardens washed away for the 2nd time.

Tiaro is on a minor flood warning and Gympie is on flood watch.

Maryborough was on minor flood levels but that eased as the tide went out.

There have been landslides cutting roads between Grafton and Glen Innes.

Gunnedah is expecting record floods and is on high alert for evacuations.

My cousins farm in Gundiah is cut off in both directions as the bridges leading to her property are now under water.

Now we wait to see if the low that caused the damage and headed out off the coast, returns to give us a second helping.

The biggest rain event, according to some predictions, should be happening in another week so we may not be out of the woods yet.

We had 44mm overnight and we haven’t checked the rain gauge for today. We had about four hours of steady to heavy rain during the day which made it perfect for staying in bed watching videos and movies.

I made my own breakfast and brought it back to bed.

BGWLBH and I met in the outdoor area for a cup of tea at about 2pm and we chatted while watching the rain fill the pool.

We returned to our rooms.

Adoring Husband overcooked our chicken nibbles because he didn’t hear the timer go off so we ate charred, dried out chicken bits for dinner.

We returned to our rooms.

My joints have been a bit achy from this weather but I’ve enjoyed spending the day in bed and listening to the rain.

Let’s see what tomorrow brings.

Nite all.

Nonpictorial

I didn’t take any pics!!

I had a reasonably early start to the day and worked my butt off in the kitchen for about four hours.

The dishwasher had been emptied onto the bench so while the kettle was boiling for my tea, I put the dishes away.

BGWLBH then wanted to decorate the table for lunch so I went searching for the brand new table cloth and runner.

While she did that, I emptied the loaves of fresh bread and bagged two slices at a time to freeze.

She found the party hats and went searching in the garden for flowers to scatter on the table.

Meanwhile, I made the GF chocolate mud cake, decorated it with chocolate icing and chopped strawberries, added the candles and whipped some cream for serving.

Adoring Husband’s birthday wish was for roast lamb and veg, so I set about preparing that for a late lunch. Lots of veggies and home made gravy.

We sat down to lunch at about 1.40pm.

We sang happy birthday (very badly with BGWLBH singing base and me soprano) to AH and he had two helpings of cake.

He loved his new Cronulla shirt and Dolphins beach towel.  BGWLBH made a beautiful framed hand drawn picture and hand written story about Libra and Taurus. It was perfect.

It was a pretty good day with lots of birthday phone calls and messages.

I had to lie down for a nap at about 4.45pm and dozed on and off for an hour.

I didn’t bother cooking dinner and the others snacked on leftovers.

AH and I watched a couple of fluffy movies before heading to bed.

The birthday boy …

Now I’m off to sleep.

Nite all.

Birthday Boy

(Click here) ==> Sunshine Coast Doctors against mandates and why 

Legal action - who will be targeted. I’ve tried to upload the video of the announcement in government that Doctors, AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) and other national bodies can now be sued for medical negligence, but it just won’t load.

Doctors can be sued for ‘gross medical and/or professional negligence’ with respect to patients receiving the Covid-19 injectibles.

If those doctors then have to pay out the victims, those doctors can then sue AHPRA and other government bodies for “Misfeasance in public office” because the vaccines are still classed as ‘experimental gene therapy’ and doctors are still threatened with deregistration if they do or say anything opposing the vaccine narrative.

It’s time to convince your kids and grandkids to study law because this will be ongoing for years to come.

Then there is this Bureau of Statistics

Today, BGWLBH and I took advantage of the calm weather and ducked back into The Bay to grab the few small things that we forgot yesterday.

We were home by lunch time and I watched my quiz shows before making vegetable laksa and crispy skinned chicken for my team and fruit whip for us all.

I’ve spent the evening, since Adoring Husband went to bed, wrapping his birthday presents and writing in his card.

Happy birthday darling 🥳

Nite all.

Prepping Again

BGWLBH and I headed into The Bay bright and early this morning.

After all of the meteorologists laid down their weather predictions on social media over the weekend, we decided to prepare for possible road closures and food shortages by the end of next week.

We made a long list and after enjoying a delicious breakfast at Dan and Steph’s, we gradually filled the car  with all of our necessities including a stack of fruit which we pealed and chopped and bagged and froze for future smoothies and fruit whips!

The pantry is bursting at the seams and the fridges and freezers are almost completely full. With all of that and our flourishing vegetable garden, we will be sitting pretty even in the worst case scenario.

We visited Office Works, Spotlight, Coles, fruit and veg kiosk, newsagent, chemist, bakery, Su Jus, jewellers for a new watch battery and Mister Minit for a garage remote battery.

We still forgot three things on the list!

On the way home I phoned A Taste of Burrum and ordered grilled barramundi and sweet potato chips for lunch to be picked up at 12.30pm. That gave us time to unload all of our goodies from the car before picking up the food.

So we got a LOT done in a short time AND we picked up the FROG box on the way home.

It took an hour to chop and bag all the fruit and I got to sit down for two hours before making zucchini slice muffins and salad for dinner.

It’s almost midnight and I’m exhausted!

Nite all.

This is Real

Watch this … The Real Anthony Fauci

I also own the book.

Nite all.

It’s Coming

I didn’t open my eyes until 10.30am 😳

Shocking!

Drove into The Bay with BGWLBH to purchase Adoring Husband’s birthday present today.

I know he’ll love it.

Spent the afternoon in the kitchen.

BGWLBH made pumpkin soup and we all sat down to a tasting - delicious! As always.

I made apple tart in the cast iron pan followed by duck breast with spicy peach sauce, charred zucchini, green beans and sweet potato chips.

I whipped up some fresh cream with vanilla for AH and I to have on our tart. I made apple and passionfruit sauce for BGWLBH to have on her tart.

Watched The Block am now in bed.

It’s been a very wet day and the forecast is looking bleak for the next ten days. Very bad floods are predicted for NSW and QLD. Some predictions are using words like ‘catastrophic’ and stating that in comparison, February floods will look like a walk in the park.

What started out as just the BOM and Higgins Storm Chasers issuing warnings has now led to a number of meteorologists adding their 2c worth and one from USA talking about flooding of biblical proportions in Australia and warning farmers to move their cattle to the highest ground, opening gates to give animals an escape route when things get bad, start filling sandbags NOW and if you’re not in a safe area get out NOW.

It looks like 400+mm down in the Riverina and southern NSW. Towns mentioned to be on high alert were Narrandera, Batlow, Grafton, Lismore, Ipswich, Boonah, Maryborough, Bundaberg, Gympie. A very wide area but they also mentioned areas of NT, SA and VIC.

Our little town will get wet too but the problem for us will be food shortages with roads blocked north and south.

It will be interesting to see whether the forecasts are accurate and which of the forecasters are the closest to the mark. I hope it’s not the American.

Time for me to sleep.

Nite all.

I’m Done

Except for making my breakfast and then preparing dinner, I spent the entire day in bed.

Feeling miserable.

Giving up on humans.

In my mother’s words, “stop the world I want to get off”.

I have no energy left to care anymore.

I would like a few days of solitude and silence.

I’m done.

Nite all.