Tuesday

 The sun was blazing in the sky this morning - so there's a reasonable chance that the almost shin-high grass at Latimer's will get a trim today as long as it does stay dry.  Not surprisingly,  except for the wet weather and overcast skies of the last week, the sunglasses came out for the drive to work - the first time in a while and it is a most welcome change. Now if only the local authorities could keep up with the road repairs!  They do a fairly good job especially since they are never actually "seen" (by me at least) but you will drive over a piece of road in the morning,  avoiding massive potholes and gravel debris,  and the next time you pass that way either the potholes have been filled in or a section of the road (a large rectangle around where the pothole was) has been replaced.  The only problem is that the guerilla repairs don't seem to last and almost at the very next downpour the road is damaged again. Granted it's not easy to keep up with but if there were a way of better repairing the damage,  that would seem to be a good thing.  

After numerous checks with S during the afternoon to see if it had started raining again at Latimers (and it hadn't) I rushed straight home after work - foregoing my afternoon visit to Zarraffas - to jump on ROM.  M and I had talked about the best setting and while 4 was agreed on, once I was out there, 4 just wasn't cutting it - in that ROM was doing it well, but it wasn't making much of an impression on the grass (maybe it wasn't as long as we thought).  So I dropped the deck to 3.5 and continued on - getting most of the yard done before the mower drive belt came off - and I did not manage to get it back on.   But at least we should be able to see any snakes that choose to make their way across the yard - but hopefully they won't. 

Yard done,  we decided on a change for Tuesday night dinner and rather than going to the local hotel,  we took ourselves off to an old favourite - Peter's Fish Market at Main Beach. We weren't the only ones with that idea but there weren't so many of us there that we couldn't all manage to score a table near the water. There's nothing quite as wonderful as being near water with the sun setting off in the West ... although, it's good to be near water at any time (especially if you're a water sign!).

It's hard to credit how many cane toads come out in the wet and certainly it's difficult to miss them as you drive down the lane to Latimers since they just don't get out of the way.  When it's been as wet as it has,  I'm unwilling to drive off the bitumen to miss them because there's always a chance of bogging (I've seen the tracks where the four-wheel drives have had to power out of the grassed areas).   If there are this many out in the open,  I can't imagine how many are hiding in the grass in the yard and in the horse paddocks.  S has taped a show on Cane Toads which will be interesting to watch.  It seems to be an update of a documentary on Cane Toads which was made a few years ago and was almost a world-wide hit - certainly more popular than the subject matter!