It is in March that the leaves fall from the oaks and this year I may get some autumn colour. We have had enough rain this very pleasant summer to have the oaks still green in March. Last year's ferocious drought meant sparse leafage but they stayed there and remained green.
This was takeover Month. Scaredy now owns me. She suddenly decided I was her best bet for old age and she moved in or more correctly on! She is permanently on my verandah and definitely on my chair. She defends it with savage claws being the little feral that she is.
I attempted photos with my camera using old fashioned film. She is a smooching cat, if not defending her chair.....notice that...<her chair>! and would not hang about looking glamourous while I twitched a couple of photos.
Next week I will have had visitors from Canberra and this means computer lessons.....watch this space!
It is now March 2006. Again a summer with only one really bad day and a couple or long rainfree spells but downpours like 3" at the end of Feb. saving the garden.
I am having a spider invasion and have discovered it is not the St. Andrew's Cross which bites me so savagely but the tiny lower to the ground ones, giving me some savage bites this year as early as mid Feb. which was cool enough to have been mistaken for autumn.
The house shifted with the low rainfall of Feb. suddenly corrected with the downpour. My house is up on stumps and the walls move and sometimes various doors won't shut/open. I have the door to my garage from the kitchen open because if I shut it I have to go outside to the front of the garage and come in to thump it open from in there. The French doors from the sitting room are jammed too. This is annoying as it is a good time to have them open to let in fresh air.
The equinox has brought Indian summer instead of full blast summer with most of early March up to 30 degrees. We have dropped to 25 with cloud and some pretend rain. Some leaves are coming off the oaks and I have been able to shut the door to the garage.
Today is March 31st so I will wind up this month telling you that yesterday we were promised rain and big black clouds rolled in and I shot into the garden to turn on the tank taps and make room for new rain
....... I completely forgot the spiders and even pulled out a lot of little oak trees which sprouted from the new acorns. Result.... the most horrendous spider bites all over my covered body. They get trapped inside my clothes and must love the flavour of me. I've never had it so brutally and am miserable with itch.
