Jill and Gerard's Seachange

Too Hot to sleep and when I do..............

Well it is gone 7.30 in the morning, had finally got to sleep last night in the heat and ended up having this awful nightmare. I was trapped in a house with a lion, tiger, panther and leopard all under the bed just waiting for me to move so they could get me!!!!!! Rusty our cat walked under the bed!!! OMG and then Sassy came in, here I am shitting myself with fear for them and I am calling Gerard to come in and he is busy doing his own thing, shaving, cleaning his teeth, watering plants ignoring me. The leopard has come out and I am trying to stop it from getting too close, by pushing its face away from me!!!!! FINALLY I wake up, thank goodness and it is over, don't know what happened to them all as I did not go back to sleep!!!! Got up and here I am sitting on the swing or should I say lounging on the swing. It is amazing what the mind conjures up from events during the day I suppose. The only dramatic thing that happened during the day was one of my nieces had a young cat and it came inside the house and she notices some blood on the floor, when she has a closer look at the cat underneath, it has been ripped open down it's stomach. The vet reckons it has got itself caught on something and has struggled and pulled itself out of the situation and torn itself open. Amazing how it got home. Had to be put down though. So that is the only thing I can think of . Oh yes there was a big cat doco I read on the TV guide! Did not watch it though.

O.K. Maree are you any good at analyzing dreams?????? lol!!!!

So back to the chair.

Close your eyes.................... got them closed????????? well silly you cause you won't be able to read this and visualise it at the same time!!!!!! ha! ha! ha!!!!!

O.K. you can open them to be able to read this then. I will let you.

O.K.

What can I see, feel, hear and smell today from my lounging position?????

The sky is white with a heavy shading of grey over it as I look up through the window, if I look further out over the bushes at say 10 to 12 there are a lot of soft cotton wool clouds over the water with bright areas where the sun is trying to reach them. The swallows are flitting over the bushes in that direction, darting here and there, probably catching insects as they soar and flit about the place, they go in all directions so I gather that is what they are doing. Plenty of mozzies I suppose but not a lot of food in them!! No sign of any boats at the moment have not seen a one!

Looking straight ahead at 12 o'clock, I cannot see much that paperbark tree MUST go!!!!! it is getting too big. At about 5 to 12 I can see over to Raymond Island and in the distance on the water the black mounds are there so many of them. There are so many more swans about than last year.

Oops a magpie has just landed on the roof above me and is talking away, probably telling me that it knows I have the fatty bits of the bacon I had yesterday still in the fridge and it is hungry! Oh around the corner has flown about 8 green lorikeets madly squwarking away as they just miss the corner of the verandah! and then they are gone. A grey and pink galah has just flown past from the bushes also making a racket!!!

Maggies chortling away and flying around chasing the parrots. op here come more of the lorikeets again. They must be flying marathons at the moment around the block.

The Plovers are over on the flat past the bush just minding their own business and not , hey I have just heard a kookaburra laughing over on the island. Does that still mean rain????? It looks like it will rain.

Have already had the willy wagtail around and had his bath and is happily in the distance making his odd noise. He was sharing the bird bath with three rosellas. I wonder if the rosellas are the ones that used to come last year. If they are they have almost lost all of their green feathers and are turning that gorgeous blue and red!!! Just stunning. We have a bush that produces some sort of rough berry and they love it.

Uh there is a pacific gull I think they are called just landed on the street light at 12 o'clock.

I can hear the chug chug, but cannot see it yet oh there it is at 5 past 12!! Just a little boat looks like a fishing boat off to see what luck he has maybe. The willy wagtail is back!! Sounds like he has the wrens with him now. They are such petite little birds and look so cute in the water flitting about and getting so wet. Pink and grey galahs are making some noise and the swallows have increased in numbers now so there must be heaps of insects in the air that I cannot see!!!

The sky is getting darker grey and I can feel a cool breeze just a slight one coming in through the window near me. It is so pleasant to feel some natural cool air. The smoke smell has gone thank goodness and the sky does not seem to be so smoke filled as it has been. Yesterday morning it looked very foggy over the water, but I can see the main land over at ten to twelve.

SSSSSSHHHHHHHHH absolute silence. seagulls flying by heaps of them never seen so many over here. A car engine has started and yep a blow fly just flew by!!!!!

Way out at 10 to 12 between the gaps through the trees I can see a boat cutting through the water, the whiteness of the water at each side as it rushes it way through. Can't see it now.

Sounds like the neighbours around here are starting to move about, a few cars going by. oops silence again. The odd cry from a swan, way over on the island the parakeets must be making such a din!!!!!

up what is that at 10 past twelve???? running along the foreshore?? it is only Jack!!! a little fox terrior and there is its owner I think his name is Eddy. And here comes Ivan!!!! for his morning walk. Hat, sunglasses, little shorts and a long sleeved top!!! He used to get out earlier than this unusual for me to see him. oops duck your head here comes an Ibis now heading for the flat part in the bushes. The swans are making a racket now I suppose Jack is stirring them up.

Well I had better get off this fat bum and do something. I have to take Milly to the vet's this arvo as she is losing her hair by the clumps... If she had chemo I would understand, but it is real bad and she is scratching too. No sign of skin irritation but! Hope it is not an allergy to the bushes and the salt water!!! That may be a big problem then....

Mum is coming for the ride and she is going to keep Milly company as I need to pop into KMart and change these bathroom scales I bought as they are not accurate. One minute I am one kilo heavier and then not so heavy it is silly. How can I get an accurate reading to compete with Machele..

The silence is broken, willy wagtail is back, gee he is noisy and the plovers are not happy. I can hear the little squeaks of the wrens too so they must be in the bird bath I reckon, will have to get up and take a look as I get to and do some work!!!!

Had a terrific time with Kate and Matt here even though it was so hot. Was able to have a bit of a talk with Kate which will be continued at some other point I guess. We are getting along so much better now.

o.k. I am off now, Milly and Sassy have broken the silence barking at a neighbour with her australian bull dog pup. It is so gorgeous about four months old, huge feet real clumsy looking and has black trousers!!!! Well not really but has black legs and look just like trousers!

o.k. rambled on long enough back to the drawing board for this Deco book swap, have to find something related to tea, teapots, tea cups etc. Have some stamps of them but do you think I can find them?????????????????????????? NUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bye

luv Jill xxx

posted by Jill @ 7:43 am