Tuesday 15th September: Today dawned calm after what must have been the wildest night I have experienced. I'm talking about the weather, of course! I woke three times to the sound of the fire station siren, but heard later they had been called out 6 times overnight. When I woke just after 7am the power was off, and had been most of the night. It was back on in time for breakfast. Today was sunny and warm, about 17 degrees.
I got three loads of washing done and on the line and then the boys and I went out to the other house for the day (we're on holiday from schooling this week). We had found a rotavator in one of the garages and our neighbour Allan had kindly fixed it. I spent an hour or so digging over one end of the veggie patch and also had time to cut the grass. We found a part of one tree had split and fallen in the winds last night but otherwise the house seemed fine. Lots of loose things had moved around the garden but otherwise no real problems from last night's nor'wester. Mick the decorator came for a couple of hours in the afternoon and completed the wallpapering in another bedroom but there's still plenty to do.
In the evening we had pork for tea and flapjack and custard for pudding. Steve put the boys to bed while I went to a gymnastics club committee meeting.
Peter took the photo of me with the rotavator. That'll explain why I have no top of my head and the rotavator has no base!
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