I don't have that colour in my palette

The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

Ram Charan

We see some crazy skies around here and the photos, amazing as they are, do no justice to the awe we experience when gawking out the window.  At the moment sunrise coincides with exit to open up the chicken house and feed all the girls (🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐓🐐🐐🐐🐑🐑🐑). We nearly always snap a pic and then groan as the little screen throws back a pale facsimile of the reality. We're sure that if we painted a true representation it would look like a cartoon sky and nobody would believe the kooky palette.

Stare in wonder, marvel at the universe, rinse, repeat

It has been mighty wet around these parts and yes we did flood out again downstairs. The mods we did after last time had some effect and made the situation more bearable, but still it was a sight to see us in dressing gowns and gumboots at 3am sloshing the river of water out into the garden with brooms. Good exercise but we prefer sound sleeping! Work was cancelled the next day thank goodness as we were in no condition to be upright and functional. We'll have another look at drainage and hope to retrieve our driveway from the neighbour's paddock real soon!

One downside of a wet winter is the slop that the puppy brings in on her oversized paws. When we returned from Rarotonga there was a lot of mud in the house and we had to get in a cleaner to bring it all back up to spec. She's a worry that one.

Paws perfect for gallons of mud cartage

Take care and stay warm.