This is detail of Joe's painting

This painting was done in the garden by Joe, who is just 3. He kept mumbling that he was painting rain!

These are the views from our back verandah, into the Jacaranda and the Silky Oak, which are both in flower. I have just repainted the floor of the verandah, as you can see. The verandah is really like an extra room. We use it a great deal. On Wednasday, when we got a big storm, our little butcher birds sought shelter there. They were drenched and we were glad to offer them s
a haven. The other 2 pictures are of one of the pizzas I made for the Yandina Community garden lunch, and the oven we cooked them in. It was a lot of fun, even if we did not really know how to manipulate the heat of the oven. The fire would have cooked a storm 24 hours later.
We are feeling the relief of the storm on Wednesday. 3 of our 4 tanks are full, and the other one is in need of gutter clearing, which will happen next week. We couls catch an awful lot more water. Maybe we will get some overflow tanks.