After expecting the summer to be long and extra hot suddenly things changed. The monsoon trough pushed an x cyclone across central Western Australia and into South Australia from which great quantities of rain fell. Even when it reached us 140mm fell in 48 hours turning our once dry creeks into torrents. These raged into the dams which filled and over flowed something we've never seen happen in Febuary. The green seemed to happen overnight but it would have been over a few days that the yellow old grass vanished and the new green growth appeared.
We'd just started to hand feed the sheep as the hot weather had sapped the remaining proteins from the dry grasses and now there was new growth everywhere, mainly the clovers.
With the milder weather we tackled our new watering system in the vegetable garden again, this time finishing it. During all the hot weather we'd only been able to use the drippers on a couple of the beds having to hand water the other vegetables, now all the beds are covered. So we've been able to plant the next group of seedlings.
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