Dorothea Mackellar summed it up beautifully
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
of droughts and flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
While it rained kitty started to emerge.
Warning to anyone with a fear of spiders.
As I was emptying water from the flower pots s/he leapt up the wall.
Good to see the critters survived the deluge.
Have a wonderfully creative week.