Hello Mazy
@Mazarita🙂
The solar business is a little busy during Winter {it's much easier in Summer, though then I have to make sure I top-up the water in the batteries regularly} Before I put the 2nd system together, in Winter I would simply run out of power, usually by 6pm! I'd make sure I had the lap-top and a little portable DVD player charged up, so I could watch something, as my eye sight has deteriorated and there's no reading or doing arts and crafts by candle light for me anymore 😉
On the whole I think snakes are gentle creatures, I've never had one attack me though I know the Browns will do so during breeding season. Bites are normally due to somebody poking and prodding at them, or accidentally stepping on them. We had 9 bites here last Summer, a couple of them were fatal (one of them a child). I've lost 1 dog and 1 cat to snake bite 😞 Now I can add feral pigs to the list of deadlies out here, I think I preferred not knowing - I thought the tracks I was looking at were sheep and often wondered how sheep got into the parks and forests; though I have heard they often fall off the trucks and that the State forests do lease out to farmers. I'm far more afraid of cars, either accidents while I'm driving or other drivers running over my critters.
The ticks out here I put in the same bracket as Mozzies and Midgies, just extremely annoying, no other symptoms except nothing else itches quite like it! 😄 The centipedes and wood scorpions though I avoid like the plague, though I've never been bitten I believe they hurt a great deal! (oo) We get these brown spiders (amongst many others) here in Summer too, I counted 2 dozen one night - it was like they were having a party in my lounge room, one even crawled up onto my lap . . . and I really have a phobia of spiders!!!
It's actually a little exciting getting lost, like an adventure, the panic sets in when I realize I don't know how to get home . . . I have to be able to get home!!! But even since I've gotten a GPS that panic has been a little less. I've had one for years, an for the first couple all I ever used it for was to get to the Center of my Universe - doesn't matter how many times I go there, I couldn't find it on my own . . . there's just too many turns to take wrong in the 5 hours it takes to get there!! In the last year or 2 I've started using it just to go places, like just going for a drive knowing the GPS will find my way back 🙂 I still can't find my way to and from the local national park that is literally just around the corner! There's a rabbit warren maze of dirt roads around where I live, and in the forests and parks themselves; and I can't recognize things like I used to.
Ah yes, the Sun Dews, I was absolutely amazed; they were tiny but thousands of them! I must go back with my camera! I told myself I need to put my camera in my car, so it's there when I come across these things. I used to carry it everywhere I went, I was a bit obsessive taking photos of anything and everything (perhaps I used it as a way to remember things?, proof to myself that I had really seen them?) But I haven't had the urge to pick it up for a couple of years now - I declare that my mission for the day . . . charge the camera and put it in the car!!
I read a little about your weird day, I'm sorry you were put through that. I have had many similar occasions in my life, were I have 'helped' friends out. The last occasion, I finally realized and even spoke aloud of my disgust that they were abusing a woman with (I even used the term) a mental health illness. It was as if I thought that was all I had to offer and I feared if I did not submit and do as I was asked, I would lose their friendship. I once had a Doctor tell me 'some people are better off alone', it made me very angry at the time, and I still think that Doctor has never really been alone - but maybe they were right. Now I am lonely but I have a much higher opinion of myself, and do not need to numb everything out with substances all the time.
It makes my day better when I hear you've had a good one 🙂 Out the flat and on the bus before 10am - that means you got cleaned up, dressed and walked all the way to the bus stop by 10! Way to go girl!!!:):D Glad you got to see your friend, because that's what she is now, someone who chooses to keep your company without any dollars and cents involved 😉 My you had a busy day! How's the art group going? Did you do more painting to music? Can you dance while you paint to that music? I can understand how such a day would agitate you and am proud of you for doing the various things that you know will wind that down and help you feel okay again
I love our catch-ups, our very real communications and your soul
Still streaming the love XxX
Niqua
