Phew!!!!!

Well we made it! After a very sleepless night and some very scary wind and rain we are now back on track. The power came back on about half an hour ago and you could hear the cheering from the neighbourhood in all directions. It went off about midnight saturday when the winds really picked up and stayed off til now. Having two little fishes in stinking hot humidity for a couple of days with no power is not my idea of fun, but there you go.

The Ergon crews have been working round the clock to try and get everything fixed but there was a fair bit of damage and they still have a lot to fix so we are very happy that we now have power.

We only had 4 trees come down and none of those fell onto anything important so, yay!

Oldest fish is a bit devastated because her favourite park has been smashed up pretty badly. All the old paperbarks and other gums around the playground all were either badly damaged or snapped off at the base and fell on the playthings. We told her that it would be okay and the tree fixer people would come and clean up the trees and the playground fixers would come and fix the swings so she seemed happy with that.

I am still amazed the sheds didn't fly away, I was really expecting to lose them. Apart from the huge amount of vegetation that is everywhere and the fallen power lines I think our area did pretty well. We discovered our fence is a bit stronger than we thought it was, it had two bottlebrushes fall on it and it stood its ground. It is like heaven here at the moment as the fans are working again! I could live without the lights but the fans, they are a must. I have a mountain of washing and cleaning up to do, but it doesn't matter because the fans are on! And the kids can have a good nights sleep! Yay for electricity!

What to do when it rains....

With a rather large cyclone heading our way this weekend there wasn't much choice but to stay indoors. So i actually managed to get a bit of cutting out done. The little fishes will be getting some new pants and skirts when i get around to making them.

We didn't end up getting much of the cyclone except for a bit of wind and quite a bit of rain so that was a bit of a fizzer. It might seem strange but it was almost a bit of a letdown- all that anticipation and then....nothing. but we are glad it has continued on it's way and now hopefully we will have some sunny weather to give our waterlogged ground a chance to dry out (and our waterlogged selves). Stacey had some fun playing in the mud that passes itself off as the backyard at the moment and managed to get most of it in her gumboots. and Zali just continued to eat her milk arrowroot biccie.

I keep finding all these great ideas and colour combinations to try on everyones blog so the list of things to do keeps getting bigger and bigger. oh well, it's good to have things to do. Am determined to follow through with my challenges i set for myself and make sure they don't get forgotten this year.

*I am going to make a quilt of love for the special care nursery at the hospital every month.

*I am going to make/thrift the majority of the girls clothes this year (maybe will try my clothes another year, but will definately make some of mine)

*I am going to clear out of my stash all the fabrics that have been there since i started at spotlight (seems like oh so long ago) and have never used and make room for some more fabrics that will actually get used and that I actually like and are not buying just for the heck of it.

*I am going to try and use the fabrics in my stash instead of just buying more because I can't be bothered looking in there.

Hopefully I will remember to do all these things and keep my challenges going, we'll just have to wait and see.....

Despite the fact we just had a cyclone pass by we are hoping to go up to Hamilton Island next weekend while my brother and sister in law and their 2 little fishes are staying there (yes they were very brave and stayed on the island through the cyclone) and have a little holiday. They haven't met Zali yet so it would be lovely to introduce them.