Weather

I love the weather here in Melbourne. The last few days it was hot and muggy to the point that I thought I was melting. Then today it was cool and rainy and in a few more days it will be hot again. I've been told it does this until about February when it is just plain hot for about a month then back to hot, cool, hot, cool, hot, cool, until “winter” (if you can even call it that) when it's just cool and rainy. It does get pretty windy sometimes and I don't care for that much, but it never lasts for too long and really is nothing to complain about. My favorite part is the late night storms that we've been getting recently. On days when it's a little cool in the city and hotter further inland the hot air mixes with the cool air and makes some pretty good thunder/lightning storms. I sat by the window tonight with the slider open watching it pour down rain and getting a great light show too. I feel that I should add that when it rains here it is generally pretty serious about it. If it rains during the day it seems to do it little bits at a time. By this I mean it rains hard, but only for a few minutes. Days like this it could be raining one minute and sunny the next and five minutes later be raining again. When it rains at night though it just pours. I love it. I will take rain in December over snow any year. I have been missing the snow a little though.

It is the middle of December, but it just doesn't feel like Christmas. We have a Christmas tree and it has presents under it and everywhere you go in the city there are decorations, Christmas music, and holiday events, but it just doesn't feel like Christmas when it's the middle of summer. Not to mention the part where we are spending a typically family-filled holiday season without all the family.

I am pretty proud of our Christmas tree. It's our $4 Charlie Brown tree (that's all it cost to make it). Our place is small and we don't have a lot of floor space, but wall space we have extra of. Green yarn and couple of days of knitting and our little 2D tree was done. I knitted the little balls too from yarn that the store was basically giving away just to get rid of it. Yarn here is usually pretty expensive if you want good yarn, but for projects like this the cheap stuff works great.