The interesting and not so interesting events in my life
ANOTHER SHOPPING DAY
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While out shopping at SPOTLIGHT, Lachlan (the party animal) and Corey decided they'd try on a few hats and glasses. I, as usual, had my camera in my bag so snapped a few photos.
Hello, this is my first Blog.......until a few months ago, I'd never even heard the term so this is all very new to me. It's still very summery here in Victoria, Australia where I live even though the calender tells us it's now autumn. Last night, this is what we had on the wall of our house, a large huntsman spider - thank goodness it decided not to make it's way indoors or the family would have left in a real hurry. The Commonwealth Games finishes on the weekend but it's been a great time for Melbourne with lots going on in and around the city. As a Scot by birth, it was great to see the Scottish team in their kilts and even better to see them winning so many medals.
After days of exceptionally hot weather up around 38ºC to 40ºC each day and not cooling down much at night, we had a cool change around 5pm today. What a relief. It's to be cooler, in the mid 20s, for the next few days and hopefully we've seen the end of the hot weather and we can give the air conditioning a rest.....after all, it is autumn. As the clouds rolled in, this was the sky from the back of the house - it looked really weird. It would be nice if it would rain, but I'll believe that when I see it.
We're in a drought so when it started to rain we almost cheered, until I went to the mailbox and found SNAILS!!! There were loads of them all making themselves comfortable in my brick mailbox along with my mail.....talk about snail mail. Now I'll have to see if I can find some solution as putting your hand in to get your mail and it coming in contact with a snail isn't something I want to do. Another problem is that the snails love to eat the mail - bills I don't mind, but other mail is a definite no, no!!! Is there a solution? No doubt I'll have to go to the local hardware store / garden centre and ask for advice. I've checked on Google and only come up with crushed egg shells or copper strips - there doesn't seem to be many websites where they talk about this problem. I'm looking for some spray or powder perhaps that will last for some time.
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