Mud...

I went to Kmart last night, not a big surprise, I love shopping there, can always get a bargain… last night I went for something for my car and ended up with that plus a DVD, and that was after telling myself no to about 10 other things! I’m pathetic. Anyway, so I walk outside to my car and look and there’s a row of cars that have a layer of mud over them. It’s as though they had been bush bashing for the weekend and then it rained a little – only enough to clump the mud together, not actually wash it off. My car too had the layer of mud but as I have a wagon the rear window had a space where the windscreen wiper had smudged the mud in an attempt at removing it. As you drive around the area nearly every car looks the same, those that don’t you make the assumption they weren’t doing overtime on Tuesday night so there cars were already parked in the garage at 5.15pm or they were and they have a carport at work… They could possibly have been in a different area but this isn’t as fun as the other options. So what happened? Well, after a REALLY nice weekend of weather in the high 20’s early 30’s (warm to hot) and then two days of 36 (HOT) the dust was in the air along with the smoke carried down by the winds from a fire a few hours out of the city and all of that led to the pidly amount of rain that fell on Tuesday coming down more as if God were cleaning the garden path after a mudslide rather than he’d turned on the tap… And 90% of the eastern suburbs of Melbourne have brown cars. This number seems to be decreasing as more ppl take their car to the car wash – as I did last night coz I just couldn’t handle it!!! That and there was a mother of a moth stuck in the grill with it’s wings entangled and head sticking out. I didn’t want to touch it so I needed a high power hose to remove it! I didn’t do a great job but it was a start and it definitely looks better. I have to say that despite the crappy rain I love Melbourne’s weather. After the attempt at a shower was over I went to a friends house ‘for dinner and a beer’. Well dinner never ended up happening as time got away from us and a beer turned into 4 before I realised the time and that I’d be over the legal limit for another hour or two and that’s even if I did stop then. I arrived to him working in his garden so took up a seat on his steps (a big mistake – but I didn’t realise I’d be sitting there for 3hrs). And after he’d finished the garden stuff we sat in his back yard talking until Midnight… Just to clarify before anyone gets the wrong idea this guy is the ex of a good friend so there’s none of that business going on! Just want to be clear on that. That is what I love about Melbourne and about summer in general. You can have some crappy, random weather but you can also have some awesome weather. I’m looking forward to the rest of summer now hoping there’s going to be more of the same. I can handle washing my car regularly if there’s beer as a reward! :)