53. October already?

I have to say this but where did September get to? One minute we have a house full of people the sun is shining then,empty house and incredible storms! OK lets start with the storms, we have had the worse storms since records began large parts of the Costa Blanca wee flooded it turned out to be a national disaster and they sent in the troops to help out, we were very lucky as we are in the furthest point north of the Costa Blanca and we didn't suffer the same fate as some further south but it was still horrendous all the same.

The road became a river.

I have seen heavy rain before but nothing on this scale and this went on for  over a week am so glad that we live where we do and I will never complain about walking up that hill ever again. The storms contributed to another problem? Before the storms hit a series of roadworks were started as part of a village improvement scheme and of course while the storms where in progress the work stopped so they had managed to dig up a road close to my house it's an important road as it is the only way out from my garage so while the roadworks continued i couldn't go out on my motorbike!!!

Then

Now

It has taken them over 3 weeks to get to this stage but there are still barriers to stop anyone using the road, well this Sunday I got bored with waiting so I got up early moved the barriers and went out for a long overdue ride on my bike, in fact I went for a near 500 mile ride to Consuegra and back, the home of the famous windmills of Don Quixote.

The weather is still mild and hot even on some days it was over 30 degrees the day I went for my ride, so I still wear my shots when out walking the dogs, some days when Lorni's knee is too painful I walk the pair of them together and I have to say it's getting easier to do this Willow is starting to settle a wee bit.

That's September done I am hoping for a mild October so I can keep my shorts and sandals on for a bit longer, The nights are drawing in now and I have noticed a bit of a chill in the morning but not going to complain I love it here and I want to stay so fingers crossed we get our residency sorted out fast.