Weather and witnesses

As some of my readers have been kind enough to point out,

it is past mid-week here at Granite Glen.

Mid-week seems to be a point of interest...

perhaps because it is supposed to be Weather Watch Wednesday on a

... um... Wednesday.

And while it is no doubt Wednesday SOMEWHERE in the world,

it is actually... um... Thursday here.

Whoops.

So WEATHER outlooks for Granite Glen this week are:

Temps - 17-30 degrees C (63 - 86F)

Rain - up to 90% chance of less than 1 mm

Sunrise - 6.01 am

Sunset - 6.02 pm

Moon rise - 2.20pm (Thurday)

Moon set - 1.31am (Friday)

In other words, balmy and beautiful and grass-growin' weather!

Twelve hours of sunlight... and 11 hours of moon...

Do you know your sunrise and sunset times? How about the moon?

Too cool!

I love knowing this - and will try to remember to add it into these little updates...

(Sunset photos above taken yesterday after a marathon book-keeping session)
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Oh... was it NOT the weather you were after?

I wonder if the girls who keep reminding me what day it is,

are interested to know what Mr Incredible and I are getting up to tonight?

HINT 1: It involves a fair bit of driving.

HINT 2: It has something to do with a blogger friend.

HINT 3:

This chick is a blogger I have never met and I admit to being mightily nervous ...

(it's always a little nerve-wracking meeting someone who has built up an image of you from your online ramblings and photoshopped portraits - I always fear I shall be a sad disappointment!)

And not that I think she will be awful (I suspect she will be enormous fun).

We will be meeting her 'backstage' before her show.

but what she might DO with our meeting...

you have NO idea.

And neither do I.

Wish me luck.

Mooning for more

It's been a glorious day here - even the the sting of the sunburn I suffered on Sunday during Pony Club couldn't diminish the gloriousness of the blue skies and green grass. You are really going to have to take my word for it though...

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Why? Because I am trying to cut back a bit on the photo taking? I know it's hard to believe, but I actually attended an event WITHOUT the Nikon.

(Not sure yet if this 'taking control' of my addiction is a good or bad thing!)
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I spent half of today mowing - the lawn around the Granite Glen house has gone berserk with our wonderful wet weather and I could easily have baled the cuttings into some reasonable couch hay. If I'd had a mini hay baler. The rows of clippings are quite impressive. But I didn't take photos of that.
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The horses kept on posing, gleaming sweating coats shimmering through the haze of grass heads, tails flicking contentedly under squeaky clean cobalt skies. They even broke into the pool yard in an effort to get their photos taken. And yet I held firm.

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I even went for a paddock walk during which I almost completely vanished in the head-high buffel grass. I had to get Bay Lulic back to the yards so she could have a drink (a very long yet-to-be-shared story there - stay tuned). Now I MAY have taken the camera on this walk. But I am controlling my addiction, and have not yet processed any images for the blog. Just yet.

(Can you feel me wavering from over there, in your chair?)
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The day was so incredible that there was not ONE glance I took during the day that I DIDN'T think: "WOW! That would make a GREAT photo." It was like the universe was just hurling temptation at me. A conspiracy on a global scale.
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And then, just as the sun was about to plunge from the sky to end the torture,

this happened.

Jet streams. Ribboning against dusky blue skies.

And a crater-pocked moon hanging mid-crossover.
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I mean seriously.

THUD!

That was me. Off the wagon. *sigh*

Weather watch:

Wednesday's outlook is for isolated afternoon showers and temperatures 21-30 degrees Celsius.

Relative Humidity 56-70%

Hot, sticky, great grass-growin' weather.

Mushroom-growin' weather too.

And you know how photogenic those blessed things are?

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Hello. My name is Bush Babe. And I am an addict.

Sometimes, you just need to SHUT UP...

and let

Mother Nature

do the

talking.

Amen.

(All shots taken within 1 minute while talking on the phone to Dash's teacher. Sorry Ms P. I was listening!)

Weather watch - I LIKE IT!

So last post was all kinda grey and gloomy... not like me, huh?

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For the record Dash set no records (unlike his namesake he is no speedster - wrong genetics I am afraid!) but I was very proud that there were no major tears when no ribbons were won. And my face is not terribly windburnt (although I did hide out at the hairdressers for a while!) although the blessed cough is staying the distance. That said, I was in much better form on the journey home from town and snapped the pics here from the driver's window of the Prado, as two exhausted kids slumbered in back seat. A little more cheery than the last image I took of this tree, no?

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And then, I arrived back at Granite Glen and checked out the comments on my Weather Watch post. I was delighted. Everybody got into the idea, and shared their weather outlook with me... and despite the seeming mundanity (is that even a word? If not, it should be!) of it, I LOVED reading about what the temperature and humidity in your neck of the woods was like.

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I am not sure why. Perhaps it's my country roots, which sees the first line of conversation almost ALWAYS centre about the weather. We had an old neighbour who always greeted us with the line: "Funny weather, hey?" and his wife would always meet the complaints about lack of rain with the upbeat response: "Good drying weather though". Cracked me up - like getting the laundry dry is EVER an issue out here. As dry as her sense of humour, I suspect.
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Anyway, I enjoyed reading that Nevada is experiencing hot, firey weather, and Alberta is balmy, and Arkansas is humid and stormy, and Tuscon is sunny, and Kansas is recovering from a heatwave, but that Melbourne is chilly and Adelaide is bit frosty too and Brisbane even required it's residents to wear a coat (shocking). And let's not forget that 'Hotlanta' is too warm for Mom L... but we have known that for a while! (Hello Nancy! Hope the packing is going well... for the move to the much-cooler IOWA).

Did anyone else get a kick from these comments?

Or am I the only weather freak out there?

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It really brings home to me the extremely diverse climates in which we all live, and the truly enormous geographical net-of-interest over which this little black blog has managed to cast itself. I feel humbled and excited by it all. The cows really couldn't care less, as long as they can find some shelter amongst the timber on a frosty night, but I am thinking seriously about making it a world-wide weekly check-in at my blog.

BB's Weather Watch.

What do you think?

Wordless Wednesday - daylight saved

It's been quite a month here...

hope April brings you more than fools!

Hugs

BB