Drop in Temperature
I went for a short walk this morning to stretch out my back. The early morning sky demonstrates the change in weather we have experienced today. We only recently changed into long pants after living in shorts and Tshirts for months, and suddenly I had to change over to the winter doonas.
I spent a couple of hours doing banking and booking further Aussie Road Crew tours, on the assumption the borders will be open by the time they are due to start. Then I went to Spotlight to order replacement brackets for the one I broke replacing a blind when cleaning flyscreens. The crowds in that store have decreased from the height of isolation when it was one of the go-to places to buy materials to keep people occupied.
Tilly and Blue seem to have got the message they have to play less aggressively so spent a lot of time together today. She has this favourite mouse toy and teased him with it all day. She growls at him if he comes too close when she has it. None of their other dozens of toys have the same attraction. We watched some of videos put on Facebook by Tilly's breeder and think we spotted her at 2 weeks. One large litter had 8 kittens coloured brown, chocolate, blue and lilac.
I think I managed to repair the broken acrylic sheet that makes our pool fence a legal height. I won't know till tomorrow when the sealant has set. I was just about to start that messy job when my nextdoor neighbour wanted to talk to me about planting pencil pines in her garden next to our boundary. She explained they are only going to be kept small to provide a bit of greenery against our boring garage wall - I can only hope. This led to me showing them a problem with our shared fence and small retaining wall. There is about a 500mm drop from our garden beds to their garden, with rotting timbers holding back the soil on our side. We don't see this on our side but I was shown the state of the timbers, then invited my neighbours to see the drooping fence from our side. They aren't keen to do anything about this - I suspect they are hoping the problem will go away but our garden beds next to the retaining wall are dropping due to erosion.
I found Blue and Tilly playing with Anita's doorstop - a dog that doesn't pee or poop on our carpet and doesn't need feeding! I hope Blue doesn't try this with real dogs!
I spent a couple of hours doing banking and booking further Aussie Road Crew tours, on the assumption the borders will be open by the time they are due to start. Then I went to Spotlight to order replacement brackets for the one I broke replacing a blind when cleaning flyscreens. The crowds in that store have decreased from the height of isolation when it was one of the go-to places to buy materials to keep people occupied.
Tilly and Blue seem to have got the message they have to play less aggressively so spent a lot of time together today. She has this favourite mouse toy and teased him with it all day. She growls at him if he comes too close when she has it. None of their other dozens of toys have the same attraction. We watched some of videos put on Facebook by Tilly's breeder and think we spotted her at 2 weeks. One large litter had 8 kittens coloured brown, chocolate, blue and lilac.
I think I managed to repair the broken acrylic sheet that makes our pool fence a legal height. I won't know till tomorrow when the sealant has set. I was just about to start that messy job when my nextdoor neighbour wanted to talk to me about planting pencil pines in her garden next to our boundary. She explained they are only going to be kept small to provide a bit of greenery against our boring garage wall - I can only hope. This led to me showing them a problem with our shared fence and small retaining wall. There is about a 500mm drop from our garden beds to their garden, with rotting timbers holding back the soil on our side. We don't see this on our side but I was shown the state of the timbers, then invited my neighbours to see the drooping fence from our side. They aren't keen to do anything about this - I suspect they are hoping the problem will go away but our garden beds next to the retaining wall are dropping due to erosion.
I found Blue and Tilly playing with Anita's doorstop - a dog that doesn't pee or poop on our carpet and doesn't need feeding! I hope Blue doesn't try this with real dogs!
