Sunday, April 12, 2009


11th April 2009

Today we welcomed our beautiful new beagle puppy home. He is just the most adorable pet yet. His ears are as long as his face and he has the saddest expression around.

With the excitement of the long awaited puppy arriving behind us, Johnny and I started with the high pressure water machine on the back porch. We moved onto the paving and I wapped away all the stains and discovered different colored tiles beneath the stains, pinks and oranges which had been covered over the years. The paving had been laid in a pattern which you couldn’t see before. It looks wonderfully clean now and almost new again. Johnny attacked the dying bougainvillea with the tractor and managed to clear a lot way. The hens nest was destroyed in the process which means now I have to hunt to find her new one tomorrow – fun and games…..

The ducks are changing. I hear the noises they make now are different. After doing a bit of research on the net the other day, I picked up some good tips on how to tell the sex of a duck. The most accurate tell sign is the sound of the quack as they differ from male to female and the second sign are curly tail feathers indicating a drake. I do hope we have one of each, but I guess time will tell. The ducks are such sociable creatures and they become quite frantic if they are separated. The morning and afternoon swims are rather entertaining. They splash and dive and love to swim under the water at a great speed. They are fast approaching the time when they will need their own water hole and so we must complete the proposed chicken and duck area soon. The hole as I think I previously mentioned has been dug but now needs to be sealed off and the edges concreted. I need to build a gate for the front of the run. The fences are all still in good condition and will be fine.

The house is quiet at last. The puppy is comfortably laying in Jonathan’s arms and the rest of the family’s in dream world. This was a good day. Every family needs a puppy at one stage or another I reckon. It makes me think that our family is complete again. It was such a terribly sad day when we said goodbye to Roxy and Treasure in SA. My heart felt like it would never heal. Today it feels like the last puzzle piece has been found and is now in place at long last.

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