the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

[opmania]

This is a thread with no particular

Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂

So if anyone out there has something 

To say about anything you like now

Is your chance

Keep it clean 

And be nice 

See how long that lasts

Can we keep politics and religion out 

Of the conversation 

[ecar3483]

For a bit of variety I turned an ordinary solar powered garden light into a hanging light.

It looks good, or should I say Did...

Somebody didn't take well to my absence, this afternoon, so they took to the light, instead...

Don't ask me how a cockatoo can unscrew the outer plastic case, then unscrew the inner plastic case, but they managed it,  all the same.

Out there in the darkness there's a denuded light, and pieces, yet to be returned to it, lying forlornly on the ground.

I was running late, so Takeaway's breakfast consisted of a handful of seed and all the bread in the bowl, dumped in a heap.

For the last week or two I've been putting out two breakfasts, one for Takeaway and one for Donny if she was around, or whoever found it first.

Tonight, Donny got a token gesture half handful of seed. I was in a hurry, and she hasn't been around for days, so it was a token gesture.

Guess who turned up for dinner? The possum who can predict the weather. Last night, relatively speaking, the weather wasn't too bad, there was no indication of the kind of blowy, wet and cold we're getting now.

Is it a coincidence that she stayed over, today, or can she read synoptic charts...? Ooh, spooky.... Ha ha ha.

About 11 this morning one of the birds, in the back yard, made "that" noise; the one they make when the possums nudge them, in the middle of the night, when they're trying to sleep.

Probably the closest translation would be "Eek!".

I popped my head out the door to see why it had "Eeked!".

On an otherwise quite pleasant sunny morning the rain had come, briefly, yet intensely; fat, freezing cold raindrops.

I think that's grounds for an "Eek!", ha ha.

Snow, tomorrow, they reckon. Snow overnight, I reckon, just to add to the miserable windy wet, and then a couple of lovely sunny days. If you don't mind (predicted) minus 4 starts. So far this year you could add another 2 to whatever number they say, and you'd be closer to the truth.

Brr.

Ha ha ha.

[ecar3483]

It snowed. It rained, too, and it was windy, the whole package, as promised by the BOM.

Turned out to be, apart from the chill, a lovely sunny morning.

I took breakfast out for them and the cockatoos, and a million or so of their friends, treated me to their reenactment of the storming of the Bastille, with a good old fashioned pre Revolution Parisian bread riot thrown in, for good measure.

I tried to tell them that Bastille day's tomorrow, but well they'd already got the ball rolling, so to speak, and it's not like they listen to me anyway.

You can keep your snow drifts that melt away by lunchtime, I had a carpet of white, all of my own.

Carpet, blanket, seething horde? What would be the right term? Ha ha.

[ecar3483]

It looks as though young Donny is going to be staying with me for the next few days. We're looking at a few minus degrees mornings coming up, and if nothing else she appreciates her creature comforts, such as a nice, warm possum house.

She got up tonight and headed over to the big tree at the back of the yard, it 's bare this time of year so I got to watch her climbing around in it.

She got to just short of the top of a branch, then urgently had to scratch her back foot, closely followed by her tail, then her shoulder.

I watched on in quiet fascination as she went from one itchy spot to another, then she reached up to the top of the branch and found that it's been recently broken, and was still a bit pointy.

Ow! Shake paw!

I don't know if possums swear under their breath, but I wouldn't have been surprised if she had, ha ha.

Meanwhile Takeaway's showing me that she can climb from one arch to another one, by taking a short cut through a tree.

Clever girl, though she's probably none too subtly pointing out that I never did finish putting up a bridge around there, linking the two arches.

I can see that at some point I'll have to build her a platform so she can see what's going on, on the roof.

Climbing half way up the ramp/bridge that leads to the roof, now, before she can see anything isn't entirely ideal, in her mind.

I know this because I've watched her crawling on her belly up the ramp, trying to stay below the edge of the roof, so she can't be seen by whatever might be up there, while craning her neck to peer over the edge, to see if there actually Is anything up there, at the same time.

It doesn't look comfortable.

The trouble is, if I build a platform, then by rights I should build a bridge across to the roof, after all, if she sees someone on the roof then she'll want to follow her natural inclination to charge at them while looking ferocious, ha ha.

A platform will need some form of access, and it would probably be a good idea to link it to the existing bridge system, as well.

This job is starting to get bigger and bigger, and I still haven't started on the things I was going to do that I haven't started on, yet, ha ha.

It never ends, but if it keeps her happy, well, you know, that's all that really matters.

🙂

[lloydslights]

Speaking of construction......Channel 7 ....8pm tonight.....The World's Best Metro ........Northwest Rail Link 

I grew up in the area..  

Old Windsor Road was a dirt track built for horse and carriage trips between Parramatta and Windsor.  

No, I don't remember the horse and carriages but I recall the dirt, the flooded plains, the dairy farms.  

The Oldsmobile brought to a stop........and waiting for the cattle to cross the road from the lush paddocks to the milking sheds.

As a teenager, working in the City, "Where do you live?"  "That's a camel train and a packed lunch trip to get there"

Now the road is a 6 lane highway with under and overpasses.  Almost gutter-touching Medium density housing bordering the corridor.  Dependent on buses but mostly cars to get anywhere, drivers endure the  peak hour inch-by-inch frustration.

Now the Rail Link is almost completed.  A construction masterpiece.  

DEB

[ecar3483]

Thanks, Deb.

I'll have to check that out.

🙂

[ecar3483]

That was a great show, Deb, very entertaining. I love those tunnel boring machines - they're anything but boring, LOL.

🙂

[tasfleur]

Good morning all ..... 

Amazingly, it's looking like I'm going to have all next week to myself ... woo hoo!!!   So I'll be getting the Christmas decorations going (wish Pepe was still around, she has fantastic ideas and links) in order to get everything finished early as the first week in December is when we have our annual gathering.   I want it to be quite different this year.

Lovely to see everyone on this wonderful thread here and next week perhaps I'll be able to drop in each day and chat.

Love the tree kangaroo ecar, all your constructions are absolutely splendid.

I've been a little overcreative (is there such a word?) with this Christmas art wall hanging already ... it's a McKenna Ryan design, but I've modified it to within an inch of its life, added and subtracted, mainly because I didn't have the time to do all the hundreds of other bits and pieces that should be there, but then again, it's not 'cluttered' and it makes it a bit more personal to change things around a bit ...   Might be a bit dark to see some of it as the picture was taken late last night.

 

Back later.

[ecar3483]

That's magnificent, Tas, you're so clever. 🙂

I love the detail you've put into it, especially the fingers at the top corners. 😜

[tasfleur]

  ..... *hee hee* .... those are Mr. Tas fingers, he is so much taller than me and perfect as a quilt stand! ....

[imastawka]

What a clever girl,  but no moose?     

Awww, my smiley's not well,  poor fing