On 15 Jan 20, at 01:29, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

Did you miss me. Sorry was busy for a day or two. All good here. Firies managed to pull up the fire that was 10k from us - though at one stage it jumped the containment line and that was a worry.
People up the valley are on edge. Last night a couple of drunk adults with a couple of kids in tow started a fire in the park up the end of the road and frightened all the neighbours. But they took rego number and pix and I think going to report to police. Although the Shire has lifted the fire ban in the area (and lord knows why) it is still not legal for people to start a fire in that park. ?Trouble is the shire does not come out here and look at the situation with their own eyes and see dry creek bed and dying trees. ?

Meantime my husband's cousin who is on 4000 ac in New South Wales with large number of cattle has fire 20k one side of her and 10k the other side, and is hoping for the best down there at Coonabarrabran.

Weather bureau is predicting some showers this week which would be nice but would not restore the creek for the wildlife but would be better than nothing.?
I have been feeding the birds around here as have the neighbours and got water out for them. Couple of the kookaburras have got rather aggressive looking for food so that says they are doing it tough. I give them a bit of chopped steak when I'm cutting up for the cat in the afternoon. Then when we had dinner one of them slammed into the fly screen and hung on and would have been on our dining table except for that ?:-)

Snakes are everywhere round the district and in people's houses looking for cool and water probably. We've had an invasion of mice (caught two of the bludgers - third one doing a good job of jumping over traps.)

All good -- but boy could we do with some cool.....friend suggested I jump on a plane to London ?:-)


Jude?



My friend up the road has actually ordered the humungously expensive new Mac Pro tower on wheels..... I haven't heard a delivery date yet. But I know she wants it saspo.

We're taking her 98 year old Dad (Dr Sam Ginsberg who was a surgeon and an anatomist in earlier life, and was a tank commander in last war) with us to the local Mac club meet -- a woman is coming to talk about the latest in hearing aids connecting to technology and he's very interested to be at that. ?He's got AppleWatch v 4, latest iPhone, iMac Pro, and all the gear. ?Very switched on chap.?