Glorious Rain and a Tribute

It is raining!!!! Yay!!!! We haven't had any significant rain for.... well......ages. The grass in my paddock was brown and I was starting to think about feeding hay. Now however, the grass is gonna grow, grow, grow. :-)

Today was the hottest day that Auckland has seen in 150 years. It hit 34 degrees!!! It was 32 at 6pm when I picked Mum up from work and it is really, really sticky!!!

I would like to make a note of the loss of the nicest dog walking area in the world (in my opinion :-). We are really lucky in West Auckland to have Woodhill forest to walk, ride, bike, whatever in (I may have mentioned it......a lot..... before). On Monday my favourite area was closed to the public so they could start logging it :-(. Last weekend I took my camera with me when I walked the dogs so that I could a photographic memory of it as it will never be the same again. Following are a few pics of the forest and the rest can be seen here: http://s152.photobucket.com/albums/s169/Paddockornament/Woodhill%20Forest/