Full house

Lani, James and Jazz arrived in Canberra last night so we have a full house now. MJ is really enjoying the kids' company and is keeping occupied and hopefully all the running around will tyre him out sufficiently for him to sleep throughout the night.

We had the air conditioning installed yesterday morning. 4 guys turned up to do the job at 7.10am and were gone by 9! Temps hit 28 degrees today so we got to test it out and it does it's job well - it will be great to have somewhere to escape to when the really high temps hit.

Krysti is due on Monday and we all hope the baby comes before then. Krys thinks that the baby has 'dropped' so hopefully that is a sign that things might begin to progress soon.

It's difficult to concentrate on anything too much at work since I know that any call I get could be the one that takes me away from the office for a few weeks... and hopefully long enough to tie up with Christmas for a decent break! :-)

Hopefully the next posting will have something about the arrival of our new addition... J

Big storms rock Canberra...

Flooding in the stormwater at the end of the street
Originally uploaded by JohnConn.

We got hit with some pretty bad storms yesterday. Terrential downpours, hail, thunder and lightning.

This picture was taken at the end of our street on our way out to see a play that Chad and Kali were involved. It was just after the rain had begun eased a little.

There was a raging torrent running through here since this stormwater drain services most of the suburb. The water came within about 4-5 metres of the next door neighbours fence. Water running down our street was contributing to it and half of the turn around circle at the end of the cul-de-sac was under about 6 inches of water. Quite amazing to see. Fortunately, we didn't suffer any damage and the water level didn't appear to get any higher.

Mum and Dad weren't so lucky. Giralang seems to have been hardest hit with huge dumps of large hail and lashing rain, which has completely obliterated the plants in Dad's garden, shredded their new bbq cover and flooded their conservatory and back path. They also had water flooding in under the front door and spillinbg in through the kitchen as well as water leaking in through the skylight in the kitchen. Not good...