Jill and Gerard's Seachange

AM I A SUCKER OR WHAT!!!!!!!!!!

Gerard left here at 6am this morning, don't remember him saying goodbye!!!! anyway I woke up at 10.30am and have missed the best part of the morning, will have to try and go to bed much earlier... yep another late night!!!! looking up census's trying to find Mum's relo's... that is another story, anyway, the water was like a rich blue sheet of glass with the odd sparkle as it gently ripples. Just magic.

wow there goes a large yacht right now as I sit at the kitchen bench I can see it!!! just floating by so gracefully.

the sun is shining and it is quite warm, I think we are expecting about 30degrees or was that yesterday, I am not sure now but it is warm!! the sky is dotted with soft puffs of cotton wool stretching across the gorgeous baby blue sky. Can you imagine it yet??? Just a slight breeze on the tops of the trees, oh here comes Gypsy and Daisy for their morning walk with their master today not the girl. Gypsy was abandoned on the side of the road and left for dead, she was only about a week old, covered in fleas and ticks and a real mess. She has turned out to be the most gorgeous black kelpie and Daisy is a golden retriever and they get on so well together. Daisy cannot keep up with Gypsy though. hmm where was I?? oh yes get back to the view.

I must get the Christmas lights fixed tonight cause the nest door neighbour has hers on and seeing their house towers over ours, I want to at least have some lights with a bit of sparkle also. At least mine change as theirs don't!!! O.K. they have a "HUGE" tree, but I think mine has a lovely light show happening!! O.k. Jill stop being childish here!! slap!!!!!

Well I decided I had better get out the front and collect the morning paper seeing it was 10.30 in the morning and everyone else around here get up so early!!! So I opened the front door, still had my short nightie on so put on some long pants and crossed my arms and went out bare footed, bleary eyed not able to focus properly yet, grabbed the paper off the ground, turned around, started walking back down the drive ..............

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I had to blink quite a few times and rub my eyes cause there standing on the concrete drive beside my car, near the front wheel was a .................................................


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"Little Pied Cormorant" !!!!!!!! you know the water birds that dart into the water and sit on posts drying their wings? yeah you know don't you?????

Oh my goodness what was I going to do now, I could not just ignore the poor thing, it looked so little.....

So I squatted down near it and it looked at me and I looked at it and it looked at me again and ................ yep o.k. you get the picture.

It was just standing there looking at the chrome on my tyre most of the time....

anyway I remembered I read somewhere that if there is an animal or bird injured, just catch it and put it in a box and keep it dark and safe and call the wildlife rescue!!!

o.k. so that is what I will do then........ Catch it!!!!!!!! Put it in a box!!!!!!!!!!

Luckily I said NO!! to Gerard when he wanted to get rid of the BBQ box which I had just opened last night and put the BBQ together and told him NO!!!! just in case we needed it to return it or something as usual. Anyway the buld lit!!!!! Put the bird in the box....... So inside I go and empty the box of its packaging and manouver it out the front door, put it in the shade by the garage and go back to the bird. Yep still there but had moved a bit... O.K. now to catch it!!!! hhhmmmmmm!!! It has a curl on the end of its beak, it might bite me!!!!! So in I go and find an old towel to "throw" over it... O.K. now this bird has hardly moved this whole time I have been running in and out of the house so what does it do when it sees the towel???? Run under the car or should I say stagger... It comes out the other side and heads towards the front door area, fine I can corner it right!!!! I did not want to throw the towel at it while I was too far from it cause more than likely I would miss it and panic it and of course me!!!!! As I slowly approached this "little" skinny bird, (oh and yes, my foot was killing me so I was hobbling in pain), as I was ready to throw the towel over it, it decided to flutter and jump onto the front verandah entry part, fall in a heap and scramble to the corner, hey presto I could catch it now. The towel, get ready, hobble up the steps and throw...... missed!!! how hard can it be Jill?????? Second go I was closer and presto the towel covered it's back, Neck turning around, beak wide open ready to attack.... No sound just this big mouth darting at me. Covered it's head carried it to the box and put it in, uncovered it, mouth still gaping and folded the lid down.

Now what do I do????? heart racing...... Oh yes ring the wild life rescue people here in Paynesville. where is the phone number??? Oh yes I know in the mobile phone, thank goodness I recharged the phone yesterday.. ringing .................. ringing ................ ringing ....................... uh oh no answer what am I to do now with this bird in the box?? sleepy young teenage overhung voice says heello????? Durrrrr.. Eventually got him to make sense of the call, left my address and waited................. and waited ............. and waited for two and a half hours, no one coming??????? So I rang again and a woman answered this time, meanwhile the bird was still alive, had it's head sticking out the handle holes of the box for a while, had a sleep, thought it had died and then pecking at the box again. Yes we will take it, can you bring it down???? O.k. so now I have to put this humungus box into my little car...... The boot will not fit it and the back seat, well we stood the box on it's side to get it home in the first place. Opened the boot and got hit with the morning heat, nup won't fit in the boot unless I take the shelf off and fold down the back seats ........... How easy is that? No it is not, so I got the box and carefully squeezed ito the back seats of the car. Easy well almost, did not tip the bird up at all. Still no noise from it.

I had locked the front door and got into the car and halfway down the road when I realised I had left the address inside the house, oh well will have to go by memory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hmmmmm what number was the house............ Anyway I found the place, it is located just behind where Mum is living, so now I know where it is they will probably see more often.

The lady was waiting for me, took the bird out of the box, INSIDE MY CAR!!!!!! my goodness what if it jumps out and poops all over the car?????? It was an adult bird, absolutely starving, so skinny its bones were sticking out. She thought at first it might be poisoned although it was not trembling, so very weak and had not eaten for some time. So she took it away and said it will most likely not survive it was so malnourished. Anyway I will call later today and see if it survived. I told her I was a sucker for this type of thing!!!! She was pretty vague about volunteers, so who knows I might end up getting involved or maybe not!!!!

So I drive home with this large empty box in the back of my car with the towel and some poop the bird left behind. Feeling sad for the poor little thing. Yeah come on Jill don't be such a sook!!!!

I drive into the driveway and get out the car, take out the box, towel, my phone, put the box in the garage, take the other stuff to the front door, turn around to get the junk mail out of the letter box and there sitting in the shade was........................... beside my Palace ......................................





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little dog!!!!!! having a rest, so thirsty, got it some water and off it trotted on it's way. It has been here before wanders around the place gets out of its home. So I thought no!!!!! Jill leave it, it must know it's way home by now......

so that is it for the day so far, Pat the Painter has turned up so had better see what he is up to, probably picking up his stuff for another job this week....

Am going to Mum's this arvo with the vacuum cleaner and do some cleaning for her, don't feel like it, but these things need to be done, probably laze away the rest of the arvo and see what the rest of the day brings. Would have been a great morning for the kayaks.....

o.k. talk soon.

luv Jill

It is cooling down a bit more cloud but still gorgeous.

posted by Jill @ 1:41 pm