It rained again last night, with enough of a rumble to wake me up 🙂 I can't remember the last time that happened. It didn't frighten me, I went straight back to sleep, which isn't the norm for me when awoken. I think the sound of rain on my tin roof was just so soothing? This morning there was a heavy weight curled up almost on my legs & a fluff ball with his face nearly on mine . . . & it was all good 🙂 It seems to have made the air cleaner, maybe by settling the dust. I've been having some real drama with my nasal passages, ever since the dust storms, I don't know if they had really settled until now. Even the clouds look cleaner, they had this tinge of orange to them, no matter what time of day - for so very long. I'm starting to think I've made the right decision with leaving my trip for another week, if this is happening here . . . I can't imagine what's happening along the coastline! 

I really, really have to go into town today, I'm out of milk. I meant to go in yesterday, but . . . well . . . I didn't. But I don't like tea or coffee without it, & I'm very used to drinking the rest of the litre of an evening while I'm watching shows on the box. I didn't get it while I was shopping last, because the car was in being serviced & I had to cart everything around. It would have been too heavy & wouldn't have fitted with 2 boxes of milk cartons in my little pull-along hand trolley. I have to go back into the big smoke for the next couple of fortnights, they always find something else that needs to be done during a service, this time it's the alternator belt & a top radiator hose clamp - they tell me the one on it is a non-adjustable one. Both are things I find rather vitally important. I have to go in twice, once to make the appointment & then again to return for it. I make them a fortnight apart so they coincide with my 'payday' & I can take advantage of the Aldi store nearby. So next pay day I intend to get about $50 worth of milk 😉 That's $1 a carton, 1/2 dozen cartons to a box - 4 boxes; should get me through the following fortnights service 😄 What a rave about milk, I don't know that I've ever raved about milk in such a manner before 🙂 I think it feels good to rave on about just an everyday thing like that  🙂  I might leave it until later this afternoon & take the puppies for a walk in the forest on the way back - unless of course, it's raining - is it greedy of me to hope for more? What the hey . . . I can hope 😄

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