It looks like we're going to have to get to the Markets an hour earlier now that they have moved on to Summer Time - which seems to have less to do with Daylight Savings time than with having the Markets all wrapped up before the hottest time of the day arrives. They changed to the earlier start last week - so by the time we arrived today at 10 (on time for a change!) there was only an hour until it closed - not that that's ever stopped us from hanging around and drinking coffee before.
It was a reduced crowd at the market today - people no doubt having been kept away by the rain that continues to fall here. The dams in South-East Queensland are currently at 99% capacity and they've opened the spillway on at least one of them. It's a pity construction to elevate the wall at the Hinze Dam hasn't finished yet because this would have been the perfect opportunity to fill it.
The mystery of who are the two horses has been solved: Lottie is back in the paddock where she was, and Drewey is in the other paddock. It seems that the horses don't mind who's in the next paddock as long as someone is - which is why we're feeling a bit sorry for Hermes - with Holly away, and the next door horses not being let out in the rain. It will be interesting to see if M decides to bring him into his - or someone else's - stable if the rain continues ... no change to the Thursday date by the Meteorologists (from the Greek meteorologia "treatise on celestial phenomena" from meteoron "thing high up" which were classified either as aerial (wind), aqueous (rain, snow, hail), luminous (aurora, rainbows) or igneous (lightning, shooting stars)).
M went out for most of the afternoon, S spent some quality time with Em and I sat down to watch "Earth: Final Conflict" and do the filing. A perfect way to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon. As someone posted on FaceBook - "If there's one thing I love, it's wearing slippers on a lazy Sunday afternoon". Here, flippers are the more appropriate footwear ... and buckets for a couple of persistent drips which re-emerged tonight.
The kids didn't stray far from home this afternoon/evening and even when Maggie went out and "lock down" was called, early, fifteen minutes later - she came in probably not wanting to spend any more time out in the wet than necessary. That there don't appear to be as many amphibians around today might have something to do with her non-tardiness.
It has been another great day - the grass continues to grow (we're grateful that M got to do laps around Hermes' paddock the other day when there was a break in the rain), the river is over its bank providing a very spectacular sight compared to it trickling through the rocks, and it's nice to be warm and toasty inside here at Latimers.
