Today marks the end of our first summer here in our new home.  Can’t believe we’ve also been here almost 4 months. The time has flown.  Graham has had to mow the lawns every two weeks – it is good he now has a ride on mower.

Summer (thankfully) hasn’t been as intense as last year’s.  So many people were gearing up for what looked like was going to be a long hot (and bad) summer as the heat really began later October and didn’t seem to want to let up.  However, we’ve had quite a bit of rain over January and February and being in the rainbelt in our new home means we got more rain than many other areas.  It also meant that the area wasn’t as dry as it could have been during the bushfire season.

All the same, we still had high fire alert days and Graham was able to work from home some of those days which was a relief for me.  I felt safer with him home.  We’ve had to put a fire plan together and although it’s not yet complete we do have some idea of what we need to do for future summers.  We elected to host a fireguard community group in our home.  A good way to meet our new neighbours and locals as well as learning about looking after our home and our property.

I look forward to autumn here. The Liquid Amber and Oak trees will be dropping their leaves. Already the Liquid Ambers are showing signs of autumn with their leaves turning colour. Graham says we’ll have a ton of raking to do but I don’t think I mind that really.  Will make for good mulch and it will look so pretty.