Intruder!!

Was a coldish night last night. Cold enough for Lilli to want to get as close to the fire as possible!



We have been setting the Possum trap these last few nights as there is evidence of the little critters eating all the buds off the fruit trees in the orchard!!!!!!

Sure enough this morning we caught our second one. Only this one was a bit different..........

He was stuck!!!

Very stuck!!! Somehow he had squished his enormous rock hard head through the very small mesh at the side and of course couldn't get back through!!!

He was not happy! He was a large very smelly male who hissed and squealed like a stuck pig at every opportunity!!

Geoff had to get the bolt cutters and CUT the wire of our expensive possum trap and bend them back so he could get his stupid big fat head out!!!

And yes.l did actually feel very sorry for him!!!!!

It can't have been very comfortable and the poor thing had probably been there for hours and hours and was very frightened

He still managed a very good  impersonation of a Tassie Devil though when he finally pulled free!

AND wasn't scared enough to snatch a juicy piece of apple out of my hand!!!

We  put him in the back of the Ute and covered him with a dark tarp so he went to sleep until Geoff had time to take him...................away..................Apparently when he went to let him go he wouldnt get out of the cage!!! Hopefully he is far enough away he won't come back!

The humble  beginnings of one stable wall!!!!!!!

And today Geoff and l have been married for exactly one year!! We celebrated with a lovely meal and a bottle of french champagne. l love you my darling man xxxx