Overcast and gloomy. Had to turn the light on over the laptop...

Coolish at 26degrees (inside & outside). Feels damp 46% humidity. Looks like it will drizzle any minute, 50/50 chance... Probably maybe a 99% chance it won't. lol.

Had to buy a new washing machine a month ago. Still playing with it. Not a good day for getting things dry quickly though. Similar to last year where we had unusual cloud for the first one third to one half of the dry season. Talking to the owner of the observatory yesterday, he said even if he'd been able to open the observatory there's still too much cloud to see anything.

Grass is going brown, although still large patches of faded green. It's only been crunching underfoot the last 10 days. There's patches of green where the white flowed prickly weed is starting to pick up. People tell me I should get rid of it, but it brings in flocks of galahs, the pigeons and doves enjoy it, and so do the finches, and our crazy local guinea fowl always spend a fair bit of time pecking through it.

Guess I could get a nice neat yard, but I'd much rather watch birds and wallabies foraging. Even had *four* crows turn up at my birdbath, which is a first. They don't normally come that close to the house (still 10-12M away), usually just the one or two. Hard to catch a pic of them too. These two photos I took through the insect screening, standing about half a metre back from the door. They usually hear me turn the camera on and disappear immediately. Note one of them is hanging on to a small cane toad...