The healing wonders of nature

June1952
June1952 Member Posts: 1,935 ✭
edited November 2015 in Health and wellbeing

Hello Ladies

Living in a very dry rural area we feel really blessed to have had 24 mls of rain overnight (so far this year we have had less than 300 mls).  This will help the brown paddocks, help our wildlife and top up our water tanks.

It has been a great morale booster for me.  I yearn to live by the sea but this is a good compromise.

Hope the photo below give others a giggle and a sense of pleasure.

Summer  :-)

Oh, I tell people it is me dancing naked in the rain !

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  • iserbrown
    iserbrown Member Posts: 5,768 ✭
    edited November 2015

    Nothing like the smell of rain on parched earth

  • June1952
    June1952 Member Posts: 1,935 ✭
    edited November 2015

    Oh yes, it is a magical smell, isn't it ?

    We have had another 17.5 mls today and have thunder at the minute.  Some rain has been heavy so the spoutings could not get it into the tanks but at least the runoff will be welcomed by the paddocks.

    Summer  :-)

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Orbost, VictoriaPosts: 0
    edited November 2015

    Awesome ! Thank you ????

  • iserbrown
    iserbrown Member Posts: 5,768 ✭
    edited November 2015

    Wow!  We are on tank water as well as and I understand the pleasure of rain and the delight of an overflowing pipe.

    Take care and enjoy the season

    Warm Regards

    Christine xx

  • Rosemaryc
    Rosemaryc Member Posts: 93 ✭
    edited November 2015

    Awesome picture. Thanks

  • LorraineB
    LorraineB Member Posts: 85 ✭
    edited November 2015

    Love the photo Summer. 

  • wendy55
    wendy55 Member Posts: 774 ✭
    edited November 2015

    Hi all,

    I too live in a rural area, BUT only 75 meters from my front door is the beach so the best of both worlds, we got 2 inches overall after the driest october on record ever, we too, are on tank water plumbed into our home and now will have enough to carry us through, the farmers here unhappy with the rain, but thats mother nature doing what she does best, everything is so fresh and the flowers in my little garden are looking up toward heaven so grateful for their drink -just being able to appreciate these things makes me feel better after a pretty horrible few weeks, blood pressure through the roof - unfortunately the oral chemo drugs are responsible - so now on another tablet to bring that down! but I have a lot to be grateful for - I turned the big 60 on the 25th of last month and look forward to many many more birthdays but for now grateful for today and going to have tea with my son and granddaughter tonight and cant wait to see the look on his face when I tell them I have bought them a block of land and am going to build them a new home, this came about due to the death of my beloved father, so will always have peace of mind they will have a roof of their own over their heads, to everyone out there in bcna land rainbows and hugs

    wendy 55

  • Sue Jones
    Sue Jones Member Posts: 76 ✭
    edited November 2015

    Oh Summer!

    You are bringing back all those wonderful memories of my childhood days on the farm in the wheatbelt area of WA.  Love that fresh smell of rain on dry brown dirt.

    Take care

    Sue

  • June1952
    June1952 Member Posts: 1,935 ✭
    edited November 2015

    Hello to all the ladies who commented above

    Yes, it is a great photo - I Googled 'photos of rain' and chose that out of hundreds (or so it seemed).

    To those who also rely on the rain, I hope you have had as much as us - we had the 24 mls in the gauge yesterday and another 19 today.  What a blessing.

    Our neighbour has been waiting to extend his dam and it was to be done last week - but no, it will be done tomorrow.  What a shame.  They do not live there full time so will have sufficient drinking water.

    The smell of rain on dry dirt is a pleasure in life and it certainly helps me to get through.

    Hope you are all feeling OK and have a great weekend.

    Big hugs to everyone.

    Summer  :-)

  • Ne
    Ne Member Posts: 336 ✭
    edited November 2015

    LOL, when my treatment finished we took our family on a well deserved vacation to Tangalooma.  One day, hubby and I went for a very long walk and found ourselves on a beautiful remote beach. We both looked at each other and I instinctively knew what he was thinking before he even said it! (lets skinny dip in the ocean!)...NOW, my hubby is very conservative and normally we would never ever do anything like this, but he didn't have to invite me twice!  we both stripped off and giddily hid in the beautiful water.  My initial fear was being attacked by a shark or something and having to be pulled out of the ocean butt naked! but then I just allowed myself to get submerged in the moment and I floated about on my back (one expander filled breast poking out of the water like mount Everest) and just soaked up every ray of sunshine that hit every inch of my weary body.  It was a bucket list moment. 

  • June1952
    June1952 Member Posts: 1,935 ✭
    edited November 2015

    Hello Ne

    What a great holiday idea.  It is so nice when things 'just happen' like that.  Really, Google may be watching from afar but who gives a damn - we only have one life to experience these moments.

    Hubby and I found a little stream in the dry old mountains one summer and did the same - for a wash and cool down (it was very hot).  Goodness it was cold and I said "fanny froze" - just as another car came along the bush track - hee hee - didn't they laugh (probably jealously) - we often have a giggle at ourselves for that moment in time.

    Oh, and we were in our 50s at the time so imagine !

    Keep making fun memories.

    Summer  :-)

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