One of our Possums is missing.

So...we have not been visited for nearly two weeks by Little Miss Galore. It's very unusual and worrying. Perhaps she has just grown up and moved on but she did love visiting us for some banana. We have heard possums rattling across the roof down at Frogknot but nothing on the roof here at Blue Moon.We know there is a fox about as we lost Módi the rooster recently in broad daylight and our neighbours lost eight of their hens in one night after forgetting to close the pen door.Caliban, the one eyed possum disappeared for months at a time in the past before showing up again so hopefully she will turn up again soon.Having said that, we have not seen Caliban now for ages either. It's a big, cruel World out there.

Viral 'Birthday' meme of the day!

Viral meme of the day.

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Quetzalcoatl commotion!

So...I was roused from my bed this morning by a commotion down in the old chook pen. This is what I found.

A Brown Goshawk had got into the pen and couldn't get out. Even though it looks badly entangled in the picture it knew what it was doing hanging from the wire like that. I went round and opened the door and it flew straight out. The three girls in the pen were fine and hunkered down in the nesting boxes. Quetzalcoatl was outside and had somehow ended up trapped between the wire fence and the netting. I got him out eventually but it was a little undignified for the the coop leader to need a helping hand to get out of the predicament he was in.Hopefully the goshawk won't be back after the fright it got this morning. Meanwhile three Walleroos carried on nibbling the grass unaware of the drama. 

Life goes on.

So...we have been keeping busy around Frogknot. Will has been de-sliming the dam. The weed has rapidly multiplied in recent weeks and eventually covered the whole surface. He is now sieving it out and using it as mulch on the garden. I have been tidying, raking and burning dead wood in an effort to reduce fuel for possible bush fires. The fire has been going for nearly a fortnight now but there is still lots to do. I tidied Fort Yudhisthira today clearing leaves and branches that had collected on the netting and coop roof. I had to abandon it twice as Pacha was anxious to lay an egg. She didn't manage it on her first return visit but did on the second.