A Fall Storm for Mike's Birthday

Last evening Mike & Patrick headed down to the beach to watch the storm roll in when I headed off for my yoga class. Now that fall is here, the weather is only about 90% 'fine'. Days are generally clear and sunny, but it does get cool in the evening - we have the winter 'doonies' (duvets) on now. If you are watching the temperature, we seem to be toggling thermometers between Barrie and Mandurah now - morning here and evening there are often the same temperature with days and nights opposite. And we are now getting occassional rains as you can see by the storm rolling in here.

At home Mike had a low key birthday other than the storm watch - the boys cooked him a nice steak dinner, and we had cake after I returned from yoga. But he did get to celebrate at school also where they had a cake along with some thoughtful gifts. Lucky guy!!!!

Patrick (aka George - seen contemplating the world above) is also a lucky guy - he has a volunteer position at the Gravity Discovery Centre / Australian International Gravitational Observatory. He will be staying at the centre from Mondays to Fridays (and perhaps some weekends, but he will join us for our July trip to Alice and Darwin) while he is here and will be producing a short film on the research being done at the centre. Patrick is very excited to have such a fantastic opportunity and have exposure to this extremely leading edge physics research.

And for anyone not too fond of spiders (Robin perhaps?) - Beware the next posting!!!