The proof of the pudding. And more lousy weather.

Ha, Mates Rates seem to have done a good job.  Here is the proof. One medium sized huntsman on the outside of the house, hanging around….lol..

He might not look very big, but he has all his legs tucked up tight.

More pudding:

I have done a few posts about the mango trees at this home we are house sitting. Today we reaped the rewards. We have watched the growth of the mangos from the tiny tiny flowers to the tiny tiny fruit to the bigger fruit, and although only three grew to maturity, one gobbled by bats or birds and the other two rescued by us. Today  we got to eat one. Just delicious.

One final word today about the weather. We have had a wet summer and it is continuing. The weather has been completely lousy. The last few days have been windy again, stripping more leaves and small branches off the trees, and of course, kindly dumping some of them into the pool which means more cleaning.

About three weeks ago we had an ex-tropical cyclone go down the whole of the east coast causing havoc, well we are having a repeat of a couple of nasty weather events combining over Queensland. They are predicting 200 to 400 ml of rain all around us again, and around Bundaberg, who has not recovered from the last lot. Last night we had 50 mils, thats over two inches in the old language. It seems we will get another four to six inches today and tomorrow. What joy! This house is never going to flood, we are high up, and on a sloping hill, if we flood all the Gold Coast would be under water, so we are safe there, but even so it is likely to cause more major problems. All the local dams are releasing water as fast as they can, which causes flooding downstream anyway. Add to that water spouts off the coast, its been a crazy summer for weather.