The Start of the Rain

So here we are. I wonder how many times this will happen this summer. I couldnt get to work today as the M's driveway was to wet to even attempt, and it looks like there is more rain coming tonight and for the next week. How long I will be stuck up at the cottage for?
Yesterday afternoon I noticed the change in the colours, on the drive up to the cottage the dirt road is bright red, almost shining in contrast to the green of the grass alongside, as you drive up the hill, the grass dims to a light brown overlaying the green where the cattle have yet to graze, that is where the dirt of the road changes to tan, it is as if the light and colour has seeped down the hill and into the ground there.
The rain beats a steady rhythm on the roof, and little streams run down the yard and onto the road, on the up side, maybe some of the dirt will be washed off my car...

First Impressions

So I finally arrived 6 hours inland from Brisbane, and 18 hours from Alexandra. Things are going okay, the drive up went fine, except for the last little bit which isn't a sealed road. The main road was fine it was the trip up the M's driveway that was the worst. Mr.M had said it was okay, and I thought I was going to die!! Having never done any off road driving so all I had to go off was things I had read and since I got through without getting bogged I suppose I did alright. My pretty car is COVERED in mud, (not that I hadn't expected this) and it is just hitting me that I will have to go back and forth on that driveway every day... I might have to leave a bag of things at the M's place just in case it rains a heap.
I spent today with Mrs.M and two of the three kids, baby G (12 months) and little A (3)we did a lot of baking ready for a baby shower tomorrow.
At the end of the day driving up to the cottage I share with another nanny I had a little cry and I doubted my ability to do this, living so far from people I know and care about, and coping with the isolation, having so little phone service... But I want to do this. I can do this.