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Raindance anyone?
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:33 am
by Boots
Have been thinking we might need some help here.
Tis getting very dry and our area is really feeling the effects of drought. As we come to what is technically the end of our wet season, our dam is the lowest it has ever been, our countryside is ravaged, there is no feed on the farm and very little that can be bought locally.
I think maybe we need a hand and am one that believes in the power of collective thought. So if there is anyone here, who is willing to spare a thought for the families in Queensland, I believe it would help.
When you are recycling your bath water, or turning the tap off between toothbrush dips, maybe you might like to direct some of the water your saving our way? (Mentally, I mean)
Now, I realise that what I am asking has the potential to direct a cyclone our way

- but heck, you won't hear me complaining. I guess it shows how bad things are when folks are disappointed when even Cyclone Larry over looks them. We need water. It's that simple. Any help anyone can offer (in the form of positive thought and enviro friendly actions) would be wonderful.
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:21 pm
by hedgewitch
*joins boots in her rain dance - you do know we have to be naked right?

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:57 pm
by Boots
Nekkid??? 
Oooooh... am trying to
attract rain H!
The heavens might close over completely if we start shakin our wobbly bits....
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:44 pm
by Sandy
You got the wobbly bits right Boots

Have those in abundance, so will wobble for all they're worth for you(only after dark mind)

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:52 pm
by Muddypause
You're all going to post pictures of this, right?
More seriously, I think help in the short term is going to be a problem. For a longer term view of things, I guess it behoves us all to burn less fuel, take less part in the consumerist society, stop demanding food that travels half way round the world. Not sure that even this will solve your problems, but it might help to make them a bit less worse.
Meantime, in the UK, many of us have hosepipe bans in force and it's only just the beginning of spring. And at the same time, a water company that is enforcing the ban has just had the outside of its offices cleaned with - a pressure hose.
Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:04 pm
by ina
Muddypause wrote:And at the same time, a water company that is enforcing the ban has just had the outside of its offices cleaned with - a pressure hose.
And it's still ok to fill your own private swimming pool, isn't it? But not to water your veggie patch with a hose... although you can use the hose to fill your watering can.
I wish they'd make these rules a bit more sensible.
Which reminds me - I'll be pressure hosing a lot this coming week (cleaning out of livestock sheds). All our own water, straight from the loch, not suitable for drinking, and it'll go back onto our own fields again (enriched with nutrients

). But still; I'd rather there were a better way of doing the cleaning. The bringing out of the dirt water needs a lot of energy, too.
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:44 am
by Boots
Oooooh. KEEP SHAKIN THOSE BITS folks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is looking good...
Quite cool today, got some dark clouds and it's one of those will it or won't it kind of days??? Have just been out mulching pens very hopefully...
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:44 am
by Wombat
Pretty dry down this way as well Boots! So I might be talked into shaking the bits as well, if nothing else it should help the sunglasses consortium that I am putting together.
Nev
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:56 am
by Boots
You know Nev, the whole country is in a bad way... And the twits still keep cutting down trees!
Really drives me nuts. I was driving down a road the other day and couldn't believe that bulldozers had stripped the one little patch of bush left along that road (which is edged with the driest old grazing paddocks) to install power poles. Are they insane? Our country is screaming and no-one is listening...
Just leaves me stumped.
Pardon the pun.
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:02 pm
by Boots
Ooooooh!
It's sprinkling and tinkling!!!!!
A very light rain is rare here. I think it is the same rain I remember from the UK....
Thankyou to H. Think Sandy may be ok down there? Heard the Hinze Dam was overflowing this arvo. But thankyou for dancing and doing your bit.
Feel free to keep it up. You boys can join in too!

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:42 pm
by ina
Congratulations! Actually, it's been quite dry again here, too. Even the road across our burn isn't flooded any more... Will have to water my pots outside tomorrow if this keeps up!

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:44 am
by Wombat
Boots wrote: Are they insane? Our country is screaming and no-one is listening...
Couldn't agree more Boots!
Some drizzle today, just enough to lay the dust........
Nev
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:22 am
by Millymollymandy
I'll do a rain dance for you too - I got quite good at doing them last summer. Mind you it didn't work!

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:15 pm
by nick
runs around madly doing a rain dance. need a miracle as well. if local dams get to 30% only mines and power stations will have use of water allocations. a lot of people having to sell cattle because there is no water in the dams and no feed. not much available in the line of adjistment either. wells that are usually reliable are drying up.