Not so long ago I wrote this amazing heading and had an equally amazing story to tell. I would like to say that the story is the one that follows, but it is just a poor imitation of the one that was in my head.
You see, I made the mistake of going to type it as it came to me instead of writing it down and typing it later.
Life got a little hectic, four kids can do that sometimes!
Anyway, the title still stands and I still don’t have a clue as to what I wanted to write.
In 2019, we lived through the worst the drought has had to offer, our river had dried up around October 2018 and fires hit our homeland in late September 2019.
Fires that traversed our lands were not the small fires that we are used to, these were wild. In fact, the already dried our land had NOTHING to protect herself with.
The rivers New South Wales wide were barely a trickle if anything at all, animals were stressed, hungry and dying of thirst. Towns were on the highest water restrictions and having to get water trucked in.
All this, then the fires came.
Aussies are a pretty resilient bunch, but this drought has taken its toll on so many, it has been a long road made up of many years of hard times, financial worries and lack of water and feed. To have fires come along after everything that was happening and seeing the destruction that was and did occur was more stress than most could cope with.
Fires hit NSW in two distinct waves, the first was bad, but the second was devasting. Destroying everything that it touched to the point where most people have wondered whether or not tres would return, grass would grow, or the country would ever recover.
Fast forward to 2020, we have had rain, so much in fact that the rivers that have been bone dry for 18+ months flowed. So much rain that the country was nearly washed clean away. So much rain that instead of water the rivers ran with mud.
Do you think Aussies worried that the water was mud?
No way, in fact, most were just praying for more, but in gentle doses.
The rain has fallen, but this drought has been so long that it hasn’t scratched the surface of the drought-stricken country. In fact, although for us, the country got a soaking, most of NSW missed out and is still barren and dry.
The fire danger has passed in our region (hopefully), the country is green and we are blessed and grateful for what we have received, but, we pray for rain countrywide so that the fires and drought may become a thing of past memories and that farmers and communities Australia wide can prosper once again.
City living is great, but the outback of Australia is where the country gets its strength. Help support our Australian farmers, yes, the farmer chooses this life, living, breathing, and working the outback by choice, but without them, our country would be one of the imports.
Who really wants everything we eat, sleep and breathe coming from other countries???
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