Another bright sunny day and so we keep on going with our dream farm which is always “in progress” or “in process.”  Arrrgh…but when you look outside, everything is getting bushy because we can’t get the grass done (walk behind brush-mower is no longer working -RIP).  We are attracting a lot of toucans, light blue birdies and bright red coloured birdies because of  the semi-bushy state.  A bird spotter would cringe at my lack of birdie knowledge…ha-ha!!

Very Bushy:

Anyway, I kind of mentioned that we had lost all our guinea pigs to a rogue possum.  Yes I know…Paradise Piggies are no more and have passed onto become Heavenly Piggies.

We love you piggies!!  Miss you!!

So, every night, for the last 5 nights, we have been baiting the possum with an enticing bucket of scraps that we place in full veranda-view on the nearest vegetable bed.  Sure enough, every night something has been knocking it over and slurping out of the bucket.  They never finish it because it is too much and every night I set the bucket up straight for it.

A few days ago, we decided that it was time “to get the possum.”  During our much-loved sleeping time, we donned our long sleeves, long trousers and woolly hats and sat in the darkness of the veranda waiting quietly for the possum.  Gnome had his pellet gun ready (for full destruction) and I had lights ready to switch on to dazzle.  I also had a bucket of brine ready to dunk the cleaned carcass in preparation of a possum dutch oven/curry for the day after.

Anyway, we waited and waited and waited.  The stars were pretty!!  And when I got accustomed to the darkness, I could see different shades of blackness…kind of poetic and meditative if you ignore the biting mosquitoes!!

(Meanwhile the cat was in the house sleeping…usually by now he would have been kicked out for his usual night duty).

Okay, so nothing happened…and no possum came…not much of a story, right?

Oh but what happened when we finally got the cat out of the house in the wee hours of the night?  The bucket turned over…

We’ve been baiting the cat??!!  Oops…upside down picture…not upside down cat!!

Where is that darn possum??  I really want my possum curry.  Yes we have declared war on all possums in the vicinity…

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