Bad news all round

As I foreshadowed yesterday, my computer’s in Launceston being worked on. So I’m writing this on Sweetheart Vivienne’s MacBook Pro. It’s a lovely computer, but I can’t find my way around it too well. And currently I don’t have the time and patience to learn. The upshot of all this is that there’s no compendium today. And, I reckon, I won’t be able to return to usual blogging until my computer comes back. I don’t know when that’ll be. Maybe on Monday. Who knows? The computer repair people can’t, or more likely won’t, tell me. I’m just fed up with this whole computer saga. It seems like it’ll never end.
A quick update on the effects of the heavy rain 10 days ago. The Marakoopa Cave system is closed to the public until further notice. And in the Great Western Tiers mountains the rain caused a major landslip– which is visible from the Mole Creek road – that’s apparently wiped out the Westmorland Falls walking track. And it’s rumoured the river’s been diverted by the landslip and/or the trees felled by it. So the Falls may be gone forever. Such sad news. Sweetheart Vivienne and I love that track and those Falls. We’ve done the Westmoreland walk many times, and we’ve taken lots of family and friends on it too.
P.S. I’ll post some photographs after my computer returns home.
P.P.S. Finally, I wish you, dear Farmdoc’s Blog readers, a wonderful week.

Farmdoc's blog's 1000th post; and the big wet.

This week there’s no compendium. What with trying to extract data from my old computer’s dying hard drive, and dealing with the daunting task of downloading and installing programs on my new computer, I had no time to compile a compendium. Oh, and there’s the matter of the rain. Between Wednesday and yesterday my rain gauge registered 173.5 mm. Almost all of it came in the 24 hours to 3 p.m. yesterday. Mole Creek village’s main street was under water for a time, and closed to all vehicles except 4WDs. One wag altered a sign to read ‘Mole River’. Some small bridges were washed away. Sand bags were used to protect the hotel and the post office. Us? We were fine. We had a waterfall down the gully in front of our house, and the resultant river flowed through the adjacent paddock. It was charming. Our house, being elevated, stayed dry. Sweetheart Vivienne and I worried about our 1km driveway. We needn’t have. For it was fine. No washouts at all. The creek lapped at our bridge (picture). But it caused no damage. So all in all we were lucky. We’re hoping for calm weather ahead, i.e. no wind to blow down trees whose roots the rain’s loosened. In any event, Mole Creek’s rain/flood’s trifling compared with Queensland’s. Those poor poor people.

P.S. Today’s the 1,000th post on Farmdoc’s Blog. I’m sorry it’s not about something nice.

P.P.S. Finally, I wish you, dear Farmdoc’s Blog readers, a wonderful week.