waitingman: (Orang-Utan)
It's too darned hot - the first really hot days of the fast-encroaching Summer. Unlike last Summer, which was dry & baking, due to the years of drought & adverse weather systems, this Summer is being directed by a La Nina in the Pacific which brings hot, humid air & lots of rain... the complete opposite opposite of an El Nino event, which is what has baked Australia every Summer for the last 6-8 years, contributing to our devastating fires

Tomorrow will be a case in point - a stinking hot, humid day, then thunderstorms aplenty in the late afternoon. Today has just been hot'n'humid, without any kind of cool breeze to bring relief - the wind has been coming off the West Pole, which brings nothing but hot air from the inland. And of course, I wound up out in the middle of it for work, dealing with an installation which had some key breakdowns in communication that threatened to send the day off the rails & took some terse, some angry & some smoothing phone calls between 4-5 people to bring back from the boil... most done out in the open air, as the building's phone reception was bloody awful

Long-suffering Partner has just come off 4 night shifts & boldly volunteered to accompany me to the 2nd gig of the covers band I was briefly in. We made it through their 1st set before her sleep bomb went off & possibly some mild heatstroke began leading me towards the Land of Nod as well. So we are home, it's still too darned hot & the only breeze is coming from the fans we have on in every room - & 2 in the bedroom!!
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... on the just & the unjust alike.
But mainly on the just
For the unjust hath stolen the just's umbrella

After a baking hot weekend, which saw us use 3 fans in our bedroom at WaitingManor, just to bring the temperature down to a level you could sleep in, the rain began last night & continues this morning. Not stormy downpours, but a nice, constant fall that is more useful - as it gives the soil & plants time to soak it in, without having the topsoil washed away by too much water, or trees losing their limbs from too much wind

One of our large gum trees in the back yard did drop a branch though... Not a huge one, but big enough to do some damage to the plants underneath it! Fortunately Bella was neither climbing that tree at the time, nor walking past it at the wrong moment

Having finally picked up a copy of Leonard Cohen's posthumous album 'Thanks For The Dance', about 10 days ago, I played it for the first time last night & came over all misty-eyed. It's a short album, only about 35-40 minutes & you couldn't say Leonard does much singing on it (some may argue he never did!), but he intones & recites in an affecting way which, barrel-scraping future releases aside, we'll never hear again - signing off with the words:

"Listen to the hummingbird, whose wings you cannot see
Listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me..."


Sorry Len, I think I'll still be listening to you in both my near & distant futures. Besides, there aren't many hummingbirds around in Sydney at the best of times
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