April produced a Indian Summer over the four weeks with temperatures almost reaching 30℃ some days. It rained a little, dropping around a welcome 75mm on us but mostly during the night.
This topped up the tanks and the dams and gave the pasture an incentive to grow just a little more before ‘shutting down’.
All in all it was perfect autumn weather. Good for working outside, spraying weeds and removing the netting from the now mothballed grape vines.
Then on the 30th, dark clouds gathered, the temperature dropped and the rain drizzled down. The first taste of winter had arrived.
Gusty cold westerly winds had the day time temperature struggling to reach the mid teens.
There was the first dump of snow on the high country a few hundred kilometres to our south west.
Time for our first fire of the season.
Also time to get out the heavier red wines that have been stashed away for drinking with our winter comfort food.
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