We can see clouds!

This mightn't sound much, but we realised this morning that we haven't seen them for nearly a month - just smoke. So clouds are looking pretty good. Especially since they just might be bringing some rain tonight. We had about 12 drops this morning just as a teaser.

We had a nasty large spot fire only 100mtrs away yesterday. Burnt out several hectares and a heavily wooded gully. Burnt right down to the firebreak around our place but luckily didn't cross it. We were lucky once again to have very little wind, even though it was predicted to be gusty. Even more fortunately, within minutes, five (FIVE!!) firetrucks and several support vehicles magically appeared and held it at bay, even using foam in places on burning tree trunks. So we can't totally relax yet. Still hanging out for rain tonight.

Am having problems uploading images at the moment. I'll post some when it's fixed.