Summer!

[Blessed-one]

yesterday i smelt smoke in the air, (and in the shopping centre too). Some people said it was backburning (sorry for not watching the news yesterday!)

i hope this summer won't be like the last one. oh yeah, and there was a bit of rain in the morning, like 2 min shower...

 

[jono1]

i'm praying almost daily that this summer won't be like the last one...

 

[Blessed-one]

yeah!
isn't it great that it's gotten cold lately? i was thinking summer just came a bit too early.

 

[jono1]

i'm thinking more along the lines of last summer was bad because i live in canberra and 400 homes were destroyed in one day because of the bushfires....

 

[Blessed-one]

awwww.. it was a pretty big one at Sydney too..
arr, bushfire is bad! i don't understand why people liked arson.

 

[Buskanaka]

its funny how in winter everyone wants it to be summer, and in summer everyone wants it to be winter. i personally wish it was spring the whole year!

 

[jono1]

awwww.. it was a pretty big one at Sydney too..
arr, bushfire is bad! i don't understand why people liked arson.

yeah well i don't mean to brush you off or anything, i know you get bad bushfires in sydney, but you get them a lot.
canberra hasn't had a major one in decades. so it was kind of a shock. it was also a big shock for me because on january 18 i was on the way back from this christian youth camp i was on...the cops wouldn't let us back into canberra cos of the fires...we spent the night of the floor of a church in cooma. it was quite distressing....

i personally wish it was spring the whole year!

agreed spring is the best...except for allergy sufferers of course...

 

[Buskanaka]

true. i just love when you can feel summer coming, and everything that goes with it, like cricket, iceblocks and waterfights!

 

[Godzman]

I just wish it was summer again

 

[Blessed-one]

yeah well i don't mean to brush you off or anything, i know you get bad bushfires in sydney, but you get them a lot.
canberra hasn't had a major one in decades. so it was kind of a shock. it was also a big shock for me because on january 18 i was on the way back from this christian youth camp i was on...the cops wouldn't let us back into canberra cos of the fires...we spent the night of the floor of a church in cooma. it was quite distressing....

done taken.
wow, lucky you went to the youth camp!

agreed spring is the best...except for allergy sufferers of course...

that would be me.... *sniff* always get a bad nose running at this time of year.

its funny how in winter everyone wants it to be summer, and in summer everyone wants it to be winter. i personally wish it was spring the whole year!

for me, Buskanaka, i like autumn the best. No summer! winter's all right too..

 

[Buskanaka]

winter's ok i guess... but i live in bathurst, and it's FREEZING in winter!

 

[Blessed-one]

oh. then take a holiday trip to somewhere warmer during winter!

 

[inside_left]

Far out!!!! I lived in Scotland for half my life......I cant stand the summers here!!!!! The winters here are like our summer back home......Na its all good. Summers are good as long as your at Palm, bondi or Manly beach 24/7.

 

[Blessed-one]

The winters here are like our summer back home.......

that's something! consider how summer here gets hotter than winter..

i'm taking my own advice, gonna be away during Jan.

 

[ex-Cutie]

Go Summer! Go winter! Go spring! and Go autumn! lol, i love the year 'round. each one is beautiful and gorgeous in it's own way. God is an awesome creator!


The weather has been crazy though. i guess, that's what you should expect in Melb. lol.

 

[mamaneenie]

Yes, I was in Canberra too, in the bushfire season. I have an almost 2 year old boy (at the time of the fires he was 13mths) I was really worried about evacuation if we had to be evacuated with a small child. It was a scary time for our family.

Our house wasn't lost, but my husbands best mates was. Also our church was burned down and the homes of 10 families in the church.

Also my BIL was fighting in the fires as well.

We have moved to another part of Canberra which wasn't affected by the fires last year, we have got pine forests practically in the backyard. I am thankful we are getting this rain so things won't be so dry , and I am praying every day that this summer will not be as bad as last.

 

[ex-Cutie]

That must have been awful with such a little one!


A few houses in a friend's street went down, but thankfully hers didn't. I feel sorry for the poor people living in California at the moment! It must be 10 times worse than what we suffered!

 

[jono1]

hey...you're from canberra too..ok i just totall embarrased myself....(re: "it's probably been done before, but...")

 

[jesusrocksmyworld]

Does Currumbin (sp?) area ever get fires? I'm wondering how the animals at the sanctuary are doing.


Last I heard, the California fire death total was 24. Weird how all the fires started within a one-week time; only one suspected arson so far. This has left countless (to me) Americans homeless. Please pray for them!

 

[-=Burnt Toast=-]

Yeah, somehow i think that it might be SA's turn with the fires this yeah, hope not though. We really havent had a bad one since Ash Wednesday. But i assume we'll be making our yearly pilgramidge over to NSW to fight your fires...

on a side note, any other firies? Volunteer or otherwise?