Rain!

It is raining tonight, thanks be to God. We spent a bit of a nerve-wracking day or two, with the forecast for hot temperatures and gale force winds. But the blessing is that we received a light rain this morning to moisten the ground a bit, and are now getting a bit of a heavier rain. It is beautiful. Not too heavy so that we get flooding, but a good, soaking rain. We pray it will continue for quite some time!

The winds are blowing quite well, with trees down in various parts of the state. One client from work is heading over to Tazzie (Tasmania) tonight via ferry, and is hoping the winds die down by the time they are at sea. But if the winds mean rain, we will gladly take them, and pray for safety. We are at less than 30% full in our reservoirs, and are ready to move to stage 4 drought restrictions (stage 5 is the worst).

My mother and sister have spent a wonderful week here, and left on Sunday to visit our family friend Fran, who is lives in New Zealand. For good descriptions of what they did (as well as pictures), check out my sister Jeanne's blog. I've put a link on this page.