Snoskred – Life in the Country

One afternoon I was reading a book in our “zen space” out the back, and slowly the light on my book changed to a brilliant orange. At that point I had to put the book down to watch the sky. After the brilliant orange there was a gorgeous pink, and at that point I had to get the camera and go for a short walk to get this photo so I could share it with you, too.

We have a small “Queensland room” – basically a room screened with mosquito screen – at our new place. The kitties have been allowed out there for the last couple of weeks and they have found it very exciting – so much so that they have to sleep for many hours afterwards to recover from the thrill of it all. We thought we would build them a special platform where they could survey their vast kingdom.

If you look carefully you can see a rainbow lorikeet is hanging out in the native tree just outside the screen.

The big kitty is a good jumper and she had no trouble getting up there.

It took the little kitty a while to work it out, but as soon as I went to take a photo she rushed to get down..

We had heard that there were roos around these parts and a month ago we first met our new Kangaroo friend. I mentioned him previously here on the blog in this post – Coffee In A Plastic Cup.

Unfortunately the cameras were all at the old house, plus the batteries were all flat anyway, and I couldn’t get a pic on the Iphone. This roo was so enormous that I thought nobody would ever believe me – he is one of the largest roos I have ever seen, and extremely muscly. He would be about 2 metres tall

Tonight we sneaked out to steal borrow some bin space for our recycling as I have become quite the recycler recently after finding out a lot more about what can and cannot be recycled here.

Our recycling bin was full – the other garbage bin half empty, and I did not want to undo all the good work of recycling by just putting it in the other bin. I am sure nobody will mind me stealing borrowing a little space for my extra recycling, there was plenty of room.

As I walked up to the bins, I noticed my roo friend was back! So with batteries charged, we took these – only one with the flash, we don’t like using it with animals, all the others were long exposure times and we just had to hope he stayed still. I have several where he did not – he was very busy eating the grass. In this one you can see his head stayed still but his ears were moving -

And in this one with the flash you can see some.. roo poop!