Bugs and Heat !

Bugs and Heat !   Or  The Bugs are Killing me !

As the land was much greener for a while due to some rain over Christmas so the number of bugs increased. Many wait for the wet to hatch ! So the abundance of frogs - green frogs, very small brown and pale green ones and the worst of them all cane toads, along with geckos, butterflies, moths, ants and mosquitos increased. 

Both outside and inside the house we noticed them in number, especially the small frogs and geckos who all leave small presents everywhere including on the walls. The small frogs take over our shower/bath each night and it is George, our great white hunter's job to get rid of them, but of course they keep returning. They tuck themselves into the most unlikely places.  It is not unusual to get up in the middle of the night and tread on one in the hallway, so now I always turn the light on. It wouldn't wake George anyway !  

We also had arrived to find three of our aircons not working..... And in the bush it takes a little while for the delivery and installation to happen. We therefore spent our first two weeks struggling to adjust to the heat in the house. This was made even more difficult I think because we had just returned from a two week cruise to New Zealand where the temps were generally between 17 and 23 degrees. The daily temperature was in the 39 to 47 degree range, with our night time temperature at 10 pm remaining in the 33 to 40 range. 

Eventually our new aircons were installed in the bedrooms, but the loungeroom aircon sounded like a jumbo jet taking off.  While there was nothing they could do about the dreadful noise and rattle which emanated from the living area one that shook the whole house.