Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, folks.
A quiet-ish day today, getting the cleaning and cooking done. difficult child 3 has his major exams coming up in two weeks, he needs to get some study done in Maths especially. I've beeen wanting to get some shopping done all week, especially on Tuesday when we were out anyway, but I was just way too busy and ran out of time. So tomorrow I'm going out shopping with mother in law. She had intended to take the bus (it's almost an hour each way jolting along on a rutted bush road with bad bus suspension and gossipy village idiots) so I made her a better offer.
easy child 2/difficult child 2 dropped in quickly this afternoon. It's her last day of prac tomorrow (pre-school teaching) and she needed a particular book, which we couldn't find. So we went online, finally found a copy in her own college library. There is also a copy in our village library but it's only open two nights a week and they're not tonight. She has to have it for tomorrow.
Our two tame wild lorikeets visted us a couple of times today. They're very skittish, they took off twice just because another bird in the distance alarm-called. I now wonder - this pair are only about a year old, it's possible they're new releases from the nearby wildlife rescue lady, the ones I dropped some 5 day old lorikeet chicks in to last night, after that huge tree fell right at my feet. She raises or rescues wildlife then releases what she can back into the wild. And we do have a lot of wild lorikeets in our area - we hear them all the time, see flocks of them in all our native flowering trees.
Our two visitors have learned to land near our back door and call for attention and food. We're not seeing as much of them lately, hopefully it means they're finding more wild food and not relying so much on humans. Unlike Europe & the US, our native birds and animals should have enough food in the wild year-long. Winter is not a problem for them. The riskiest time for them food-wise is nesting time (now).
I've got a busy weekend coming up, but it should be enjoyable.
Enjoy your Thursday.
Marg
A quiet-ish day today, getting the cleaning and cooking done. difficult child 3 has his major exams coming up in two weeks, he needs to get some study done in Maths especially. I've beeen wanting to get some shopping done all week, especially on Tuesday when we were out anyway, but I was just way too busy and ran out of time. So tomorrow I'm going out shopping with mother in law. She had intended to take the bus (it's almost an hour each way jolting along on a rutted bush road with bad bus suspension and gossipy village idiots) so I made her a better offer.
easy child 2/difficult child 2 dropped in quickly this afternoon. It's her last day of prac tomorrow (pre-school teaching) and she needed a particular book, which we couldn't find. So we went online, finally found a copy in her own college library. There is also a copy in our village library but it's only open two nights a week and they're not tonight. She has to have it for tomorrow.
Our two tame wild lorikeets visted us a couple of times today. They're very skittish, they took off twice just because another bird in the distance alarm-called. I now wonder - this pair are only about a year old, it's possible they're new releases from the nearby wildlife rescue lady, the ones I dropped some 5 day old lorikeet chicks in to last night, after that huge tree fell right at my feet. She raises or rescues wildlife then releases what she can back into the wild. And we do have a lot of wild lorikeets in our area - we hear them all the time, see flocks of them in all our native flowering trees.
Our two visitors have learned to land near our back door and call for attention and food. We're not seeing as much of them lately, hopefully it means they're finding more wild food and not relying so much on humans. Unlike Europe & the US, our native birds and animals should have enough food in the wild year-long. Winter is not a problem for them. The riskiest time for them food-wise is nesting time (now).
I've got a busy weekend coming up, but it should be enjoyable.
Enjoy your Thursday.
Marg