Mornin' one and all.... As the last dregs of coffee from my mug slip on down I'm gradually joining this world's "reality". Not a bad day ahead for Moi today. Tis Tuesday, and that means working at the Clinic-Day. It's an indoors gig, so there won't be any (or not likely any) livestock. I have gone out in the field with Captain Ron a time or two to do a gelding of a stallion, or look at a milk fever cow. That one was exciting. Never seen a cow try to do a high-jump before. Yup indoors today. I can pull that off one day a week max, and that's it. I used to do that 6 days a week not so long ago, and after doing what I do now ? nope...ain't a gonna happen again. Ron has asked me if I'd consider adding a couple more days a week to that schedule, but frankly, I don't even know where I could put them.
So it's been a few days since the last entry, and while I felt some sense of being neglectful about that, I haven't been lazing around I swear *rolls eyes* No really... I actually turned my last bout (which was supposed to be a 12 day in a row work-a-thon) into a 13 day in a row insanity bout. Then for my luxurious day off, I went to K-9 rescue and did my Sunday morning volunteer work. I go there every Sunday for the last 14 months (was doing Sat too but work squelched that one and a brief lapse of connection to reality :P), and help out. Medications, cleaning some 30 plus dog kennels, walking and exercising animals, or some weekends if I can get them off from the ranch-clearing the brush around the place to ward off Tiger Snakes, Which brings me to a story ! yes-yes I forgot to mention. I caught my first live Tiger Snake since arriving here in Oz. I've heard all of these vicious stories about them, really. (You know that almost everything in this country will try an' kill ya' right ?) Between Funnel Web Spiders, Tiger Snakes, Box Jellyfish, some blue ringed octopus thing, crocodiles...The list goes wayyyy past that. But, my captured venomous snake count here was up to this :Dugits-5, Western Browns-1, and now (drum roll please... Tiger Snakes-1.
Now I don't want to underestimate this act. For instance I don't think you'll ever find in the Crocodile Hunter archives, Steve ever catching one by hand, holding it up and sayin' "Ain't she a beauty ?" These are known for actually chasing folks distances, and they will kill ya'. In fairness I always use a short stick I customize at the last moment with a little "Y" at the end to pin the head down, and I always release them a couple kilometers away near an uninhabited water source.
So yeah, there you go...excitement. Oh, also it was at 9:00 at night in almost complete dark in a neighbors chicken pen. I got to poke around under a pile of brush to find it. It'd killed one of her chickens, and she said it looked like a dugite. My blood did go a bit cold when I saw the stripes, but since I didn't have time to get worked up about it before hand, I just did what I do, and it all came out fine.
I don't have anything fascinating to add about last week's paddock-work. Pretty much same ol' thing. Did get to run the ol' John Deer a bit more moving about the order of GIANT square bales of oaten hay. I'll get some picks of these things up here soon iffin' I can remember to bring my camera-heh..
Welpers, got some chores to do around the homestead before I head out to the clinic. It's a real cool morning fort a summer, and I won't be back till well after 8 or 9 tonight (yes also going to the next town to look at a friend's cat and change its' bandage before I even get to rest the weary bones post work) so it's a real long day ahead.
Peace-Out hermanos y hermanas !
T.
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