aka R’acquel

Storms have continued to brew in the last week. We experienced another orange hued evening on 1st March 07. Makes me curious as to why it’s orange and if it might be connected to what makes the Blue Mountains next door to be “blue”. Maybe it’s local to the sorts of dust particles being sucked up by the turbulence.

We were right in the heart of an amazing fireworks display of non-stop lightning & thunder last night. Intriguing how the luminence is almost like daylight when lightning strikes. Shame i couldn’t catch any good shots and i’m half doh’ing myself for not pulling out the video camera instead. The smell of the rain outside was so fresh & devine. Despite the cooling rain, it was incredibly hot & muggy indoors.

The house we’re living in has not been kind to our electrical appliances, although nothing has tragically fried yet. We’ve experienced far too many brown-outs this last year, with the occasional blackout - which i’m not too pleased with. We’re with Integral Energy for electricity. I got a surge protector for my computers in this room upon their advice, but i’m not impressed with it. I really need some kind of device that can act as a minature power-back-up/battery kind of thing so it can cope with the sudden on/off with electricity and not disrupt the computers.

Storms always make us nervous and it’s the first place we’ve ever had to exercise great caution with the unplugging of appliances during storms as our modem got fried last year. This house is about 14 years old. Not as old as a former friend’s place in Newtown where all of her appliances fried. It’s a terrible thing that can happen, so it’s now become something I need to keep in mind with househunting or design.

This area has seen a lot more rain in comparison to last year without any question. A big difference in the amount of green living in my front yard. This photo was taken almost a year ago in April 2006.

…and this is what things look like today.

It’s likely to be a wetter than usual year