Annie's Blog

I wish to say a Happy New Year. The sun shone yesterday for the first time it seemed for quite a while and when I saw the water moving quite strongly in the pool I wondered why, until I saw this little fellow sitting up there he'd been having a bath in the pool. After all our rain. The tawny frogmouths from down south wanted to wish you a Happy New Year too! May God go with you in 2011. The situation in Queensland is pretty dire at the moment with all the floods across the state. Many people have been evacuated from their homes, including whole towns of Theodore yesterday and Condamine last night, all by helicopter. They say the affected areas make up the size of France and Germany combined. About 200,000 people have been affected. Australia is really a strange land of contrasts. While we have widespread floods up here in our state, down south in Victoria and South Australia, after much rain this year themselves, they are once again having a heat wave and are at risk of bush fires...

Had a safe flight back. And someone came to welcome me home! He's looking a bit hot there. He reminded me of another dreadfully (40 degree plus) day we had a few years back when the kookaburra was happy for me to hose him off with the hose! This photo was taken through the kitchen window, hence the unclear nature of the image, sorry. I didn't like to disturb him since the door was only a meter away from where he sat! It was 35 degrees celsius, and the humidity must have been 100% here yesterday when I arrived. Fortunately they are predicting a cooler 29 degree day with rain...much better...for today.Thanks for your prayers, I appreciate them all! May God bless you all also! It is 5am as I write this, and not light yet. But the birds are singing. It is so quiet after being in New York! Gosh it must be nearly Autumn here. Just had a wonderful (horizontal) sleep, after the 24 hours of dozing on and off on the long flights home. ps Would anyone happen to know how I can shift the t...