The possum houses. Rather than referring to them in vague terms - the spare one, the other spare one... ha ha, it's easier to call them what I call them.
There's the original house; Takeaway's abode.
The Brown house (I used "Walnut" wood stain on it. It's an pleasant enough ordinary shade of brown), which has seen quite a number of possums. Takeaway uses it sometimes, as an alternative to her place. Both Kogan and MacBeth slept there, during their respective "I need a accommodation now that Mum won't let me stay at her place" phases. And old Red possum stayed there while he was convalescing (there's a story in itself). It's certainly had some use.
Then there's the Honey house, stained with "Maple", so it's really the warm glow of maple syrup, rather than honey, but honey sounds good, ha ha. Donny has decided that rather than leaving the confines of the garden, she'll live in the Honey house.
Takeaway doesn't seem to mind that, which is curious, considering that she chased her other two offspring away, at every opportunity, while they were here, but is letting Donny stay. It seems very much out of character, but I'm sure she has her reasons.
Last, but not least is the Toffee house, stained with a mixture of Maple and Jarrah stains. It's the warm orange brown colour of toffee, like people used to make for sale at school fetes. I wonder if they do that, anymore?
The Toffee house is built with a wider doorway/entrance with a Mum and baby possum in mind. Also, the wider doorway, as I found this last Summer, is great for sprawling in; Takeaway's favourite method for coping with the heat.
The old man possum who looks like a well loved teddy bear prefers the Toffee house, when he comes to visit, and stay over.
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