This time last year we were recovering from floods in Wagga. Everything was green and lush. This year it’s been our usual Summer… hot and dry. This is mostly what our landscape looks like in the surrounding areas.
Yesterday some friends and our families drove to Narrandera (about an hour away) to use their pool complex with a water-slide. It was really hot and really windy. As we drove I couldn’t help but notice the landscape.
This is typical Australian countryside. A far cry from all the lovely beach images I keep seeing on everyone’s blogs!
This is how I spent my Summer as a kid. Battling through the heat, laying under the air-conditioner and only getting to play outside after I’d had my bath in the evening. The heat can be excruciating out here!
Nothing much has changed. I love it. While I do love visiting the beach, I still love all the smells, the sparseness and the openness of living in the country.
Australia Day is here this week and I’ll spend that day doing much of the same… heading to our ‘brown-dirty’ lake, bbq-ing and letting the blokes drink beer. Then we’ll come home and lay under the air-conditioner moaning about how hot it is and how sun-burnt we got (even though we didn’t mean to!)…
Today, I am still packing. We’re moving in a few days. It feels good to sort through everything. I’m just praying it’s not 38 degrees on moving day!
Have a great week. X
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