Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Storm

Just in case you hadn't noticed, it's wet again! Big storm this arvo, lightning and all. Of course it was all over by the time I got home, just a bit of rain! The creek is up just a little.

I want someone to tell me about something that happened in Tregear lately! I think I live in the quietest corner of the suburb!

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Cool green & kangas


Well, today is a bit cool to start only 14 deg on my front porch, but it's clear skies so it will probably get quite warm.

There's a house being built up on Nella Dan, I haven't been up there for a while so I don't know what happened to the original house. And the reserve is so green, the summer has been so wet that no one has been able to get a grass fire lit. And this photo I took a few days ago when the kangaroos visited. It was only a little camera and we had to stay at a distance and zoom as much as the camera would allow. The one on the left has a joey and possible the one one right does too, but it isn't clear. The binoculars helped with that.

Friday, February 22, 2008

Finally hot

After losing her way for a long time summer found us again! It's actually hot enough to put the air con on!

On the way home this evening there was a lot of black smoke just north of Tregear. I don't know what it was but it was so black I'd guess it was a burning car. I wonder if I'll figure out what it was and where it was?

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Tired and hot

I'm a bit technologied out at this point. I've been playing so much I'm finally getting tired of the net! This doesn't happen very often I can tell you! I'm sure I'll be back in form after a decent nights sleep but I won't get it if i don't stop posting and get off here!

Today was warm, very warm, but not really hot. We skipped summer didn't we?

Very quiet. No one I know was aware of the shooting in Cambridge Park and the culprits being caught in Tregear. Up on Forrester apparently. If you didn't see it on the news you missed it altogether.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Cool & loud

Another cool day after a sunny day. We only get sunny days one at a time. And the sunny days aren't really hot anymore. We're sliding into Autumn quite rapidly.

The only thing I can report is the loud abusive one up on Nella Dan was up and yelling very early this morning. I couldn't hear from inside my house, just far enough away not to be a bother. I could hear her in the back yard. I feel sorry for her neighbors though - I hope they weren't trying to sleep in. I've only been close enough to see her maybe twice and both times she was yelling. Not close enough to figure out what her problem is. Must be a problem of some variety, no one can be so loudly angry and be a stable person.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Quiet, grey and interview

Grey day today, but no rain. A dog, mildly barking and howling further up the road. Nothing else, I'm told.

I have an interview for a job at Parramatta on Friday. It would be very nice to not have to go into the cbd any more. Halve the travelling time!

(later) Something did happen - There's three kangaroos in the reserve! They've come out onto the shorter green grass to eat. At least one has a joey in her pouch.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Neglect & local events

I feel like I've been neglecting this blog badly. Three days between posts. I think it's a little hard to write about such a quiet place actually.

Let me see, it's been very cool and quite wet. One of my neighbors just grown up daughters has moved to Cairns. There were some kids squealing out the front. They were playing a game, but the squealing was so peculiar that we weren't sure if it was human or not. Was just kids. I lost my umbrella today, but that wasn't here at home - it was on a train or in the city or something. Bad timing too, it was raining when I left work.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Cool summerand dual names

It was 16 dec C on my front porch this morning. What a strange year. Even though there's been heaps more rain the creeks haven't come up any further. South Creek drained and then came up a bit more, but not to the same extent. BTW, I discovered while I was looking in the latest street directory that South Creek now has a dual name. It's South / Wianamatta Creek. Mind you, when I look up the Geographic Names Board entry I find out it was dual named in 2003. Went right over my head! http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search/extract?id=TRIOjzsyKW . Ropes Creek has stayed at around the same level for days, up but not really close to the bridge. The dams are up to 64%! i wonder when the last time was they got that high! I'm told it didn't rain during the day today but it's just started again.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

More rain! Fancy that.

It was sunny during the day and rather hot. Then the rain came back! With a vengance! I turned everything off while the storm was happening but it's gone again. I keep wondering if South Creek has flooded again, but I can't be bothered going out to find out. I also want Ropes Creek to break it's banks. It's been too long. Lots of people round here have never seen our reserve flooded. The rain radar is stunning, one massive amount of rain that is just traveling across the whole of Sydney. It looks like it has a big blank area with no rain in the middle.

As for the missing kids yesterday - no one has been reported missing so the thought is the kids got out by themselves and don't want to own up. The next day or so will make it more obvious.

And isn't it amazing how many papers picked up the brawl at the community centre? It's pushed all the other bits of news off this page and it's just cycling through all the different papers that have covered that story. I hope the girl is ok. My best wishes go out to you, whoever you are.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Flooding

There's been so much rain that various streams have flooded around the area. Ropes creek hasn't yet. It's up quite a lot, but not close enough to flooding. I have seen it flood, a couple of times a few years ago, and the worst was when the whole reserve was flooded. It filled up to the bottom of the embankment along Ellsworth Drive. Both bridges, the one on Forester and the one on Debrincat were covered and there was no way from Tregear into St Marys. We had to go round via Mt Druitt or up to Penrith. Luckily the buses come and go from Mt Druitt so we could still get around without much trouble.

On the way home from the station today we drove around to have a look at flooded South Creek at St Marys and found all the fuss on Werrington Road with the possibility of missing children. There were helicopters everywhere and a motor boat on an area that is usually dry, running beside the road on the north side of Dunheved Road. Fire engines everywhere and heaps of onlookers. The whole of South Creek has turned into a lake.

Of course none of that was in Tregear ... hmm. In Tregear there was a dirt bike in the reserve, although under these weather conditions we might have to call it a mud bike...

Sunday, February 3, 2008

I'm back

I've been in Queensland for a symposium for Web 2.0 technologies in libraries. That was a heap of fun but I won't go into the details here. Coming back to Tregear and finding it cool and raining was a real treat after the muggy heat of Brisbane. I swear I didn't stop sweating the whole time I was up there! And I thought Tregear was hot! It was raining and or cloudy a lot of the time and still I was dripping with sweat all the time. At least when it's raining and cloudy here I can cool down!

The previous 3 posts were all suppose to be on different day but my fill in poster got mixed up with the technology. Never mind.

I see there's a news post about a riot up at the community centre! And a passer by ended up hurt! Did anyone else see it? Was involved in it? My back up here said she thinks she saw the group before the fight broke out and thought something might turn nasty, but walked away and forgot so she didn't end up writing about it. Anyone want to give their side of events? Remember - no offensive stuff.

Friday, February 1, 2008

rain

very hot here yesterday, humidity is the killer. then the storm came in, just lots of thunder and some rain but it's still raining now so all the plants have had a good soak. very quiet here today.

Warm day

It's very hot here today. my dogs are both old and don't like the heat so their inside at the moment. When it start to cool they'll go back out. Very quiet morning so far just the sounds of kids off to school.

Alone again

My partner has gone of the a symposium on Web 2.0 up in Quennsland. i would have went but I'm enrolling in TAFE on the 1.2.08 so i stayed here. Also we have two old dogs and it's just easier if one of us is here. One is 16 1/2 the other is a 14. Both of them are blind but they cope ok with that. I've taught the 14 year old one to follow the sound of me tapping my leg. She cope really well. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

The other one is coping better than she was but she just not as physically able as the other dog so he put a harness on her to lead her around by. She presses up against you leg as a guide when she walks.

Oh well there's really not much else to say another quiet day in Tregear