It's Raining

The sky has been dark for the last 5 days and it has rained a little every day.  Just light showers, though, giving us about 35mm in that time.   This is unusual weather for Moree but it's welcome and it hasn't ended yet.
We have made a quick dash to the pools most days, even though I had a woolen poncho wrapped around me on the cooler days.

Yesterday, I stopped and talked to Laura, a woman alone in a very small camper van.  She told me that she hadn't slept the night before because of the mice.   She lay awake, listening to the constant patter of their little feet in the van, even against the windows.  In the morning, there were no tell-tale signs of them.     I heard those mice too.  It was a very heavy mist/light rain!   Her next door neighbour agreed with me.  Laura was very relieved.

We're cooking a roast of pork in the glass Turbo oven tonight.  I haven't used it for a while so I had to experiment with the time and temperatures but it's looking good and smelling delicious.

A week before we left home, I picked up my *replacement* hearing aids.  They have a thin tube that goes into the ear, unlike previous models where the inside is moulded in the shape of the ear.  The thin tube has a tiny cap at the end, like a mushroom.   Only days after I got them, the left one wouldn't work.  I tried new batteries but no go.   I rang the audiometrist from Moree, and was advised to send it back to Echuca.  It was packed and ready to go when I was given some information.   A man in the pool told me that the problem was probably wax in the little mushroom cap, as he often dealt with it.   Steve operated on it and got out a tiny piece of wax.   Problem solved!    *Let me tell you why I needed replacement hearing aids.   In a nutshell, Steve diligently included them in the rubbish collection, along with a heap of other important stuff, of which the most important to me was a letter I had been writing for about 15 years. 
...sigh ...

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