Heck of a hot day today, just like the four before it! The wind has picked up creating nasty conditions to make things much much worse for the fire fighters all over the state. The fire in the Grampians is doing some serious damage. We can see it from our place although it is about 25 - 30 kms away from us as the crow flies. The local radio has been issuing warnings and alerts all day and there are road closures on the main roads into and around the area. Sadly they have also reported one death and building and stock losses over a wide area and have issued an evacuation notice for the entire town of Halls Gap with Dadwells Bridge also being impacted 35kms up the main highway from here. A cool change arrived this evening but the wind has now turned and is blowing straight towards this town. The air is thick with smoke which is giving our noses a bit of a workout.
The unrelenting heat has been affecting all the animals and native birds as well. Today I spotted an owl sitting on the meter box of the daughters house in the middle of the day. I think it was sitting there as it is beside an open window and there was some of the cool air from the air conditioner blowing through the window. The poor thing had its mouth wide open and was too hot to bother to fly away from us or the curious dogs barking underneath the meter box. There is a small fish pond in the garden and many of the native birds are using it as a birdbath to cool themselves (Note to self: check and see if they have also been fishing!)
Us humans have spent most of the heatwave sitting inside in the air conditioning watching the tennis and cricket and eating simple meals that require little or no preparation and cooking.
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