After the rain ends..

This happens! After nearly a month of solid relentless rain, the sun came out last Saturday afternoon. KISA and I were not expecting it and were inside pottering around preparing a Valentines Day dinner. I happened to look out the window and saw this. Beautiful.

After a month of solid relentless rain, the pool filled up with fresh water and dirt that had been washed in. It looked awful and was starting to develop its own ecosystem. So after KISA mowed the lawn yesterday -again- he put flock in the water which is some magic stuff that attracts all the suspended dirt and makes it fall to the bottom.

Then this morning he had to vacuum up all the dirt and add 20 litres of chlorine, 100kg of salt, 5 kg of bicar soda and some other stuff. So hopefully by the end of this week it may be all sparkly again and safe to swim in. Because it is hot as blazes and we can't use it at the moment. That's ok, we are hiding out in the air conditioning.

I had a wander around the garden this morning, it is growing before our eyes. Here are some shots. This is some of the gingers and tree ferns.

Hiding in amongst the tree ferns is this Heliconia Lobster Claw.


Dorothy's tree is getting very tall, in fact I can't get it all in shot!

If I stand back far enough, you can see how tall it is. The other shot is of the crotons and the agave plants, which are looking good as well. You can't see them in the photos but there are also lots of weeds. Next weekend we will tackle thewm As soon as KISA finished the pool it started raining again.