The Weather Dogs Have Come Out To Play

The weather in Melbourne towards the end of the week was lovely. Warm, sunny, daytime temperatures of low to mid 20s.  In Ballarat it reached the high teens and the low 20s. I began to consider putting away the heavy duty winter clothes and perhaps digging out some short sleeved shirts.  I wasn't going to go quite as mad as putting away the lightweight winter stuff, but the heavy weight things were beginning to look unnecessary.

When Gwen, Jim's mother, died, she left her children a little money. Jim and I put aside his share of her money for fun or not absolutely necessary things. We didn't want to fritter it away on day to day expenses.  Jim decided that he would like a chop saw, so we got one.  We also decided that when the weather warmed up a bit we would buy a nice, gas-fired barbecue. Something sturdy that would last for a while. Last week the weather looked as if it was starting to warm up. Barbecues Galore had a sale on this weekend. We thought we should take advantage of it.

Yesterday morning we woke up to clear blue skies and a still calm day.  About ten minutes after I had noticed that, the wind suddenly picked up.  Black clouds approached. The rain fell.  By lunchtime the temperature had plummeted. When Lindsey picked us up to go barbecue shopping, the rain was icy. When we went to pack (squish!) the barbecue boxes into her car, it was hailing.

We took the barbecue boxes back to our place and then went to Bunnings and to Delacombe. It was cold, and wet, and windy.  Horrible, it was.

During the evening the hail turned to sleet.  The sleet turned to snow.  We woke up this morning to this:

I have definitely attracted the attention of the Weather Dogs, who have come out to play with enthusiasm :-D

Fortunately, it doesn't matter that it is definitely not barbecue weather for the barbecue is in a zillion pieces in the garage and needs assembling.  And I hadn't got around to putting the heavy duty winter clothes away. Jim and I have our thick, snowy jumpers to hand. Although the sun is shining at the moment, it is very cold outside and the Weather Dogs have more clouds to play with.