Long overdue rain

It has been many weeks since we have had decent rain here in Metung and yesterday that situation was remedied with a vengeance. We received  103mm of rain during the night and day. Needless to say it was more than the driveway could cope with and the road outside our house was almost covered from…

Dry riverbed provided wonderful drainage in the storm

For those of you who have followed this blog since we constructed our dry riverbed in the front garden, I thought you might like to see how well it coped with the downpour we had yesterday.  We had 14mm in five minutes, that is a considerable amount of rain.  The riverbed coped beautifully. A little…

Stones

The stones have been delivered for our riverbed.  It will take a fair bit of work to move them into place. You get a better idea up close.