Hello! That’s Friday done and dusted for me!
Last night there was a lot of thumping on the back veranda, suspected wildlife, so took my camera out with a torch.
The first possum practically fell out of the tree (pictured above). Happily stayed put long enough for a snap. A few seconds later another one streaked out of the tree and away! (No snap)
Then there was a pademelon (small wallaby)
Also getting fat on our apples. There was another one in next doors paddock. This one panicked a bit with me out there, went charging all over the veranda then went bouncing all through my herb garden!!! I went back inside and left them to it. It was running into the fence in a blind panic at one point and didn’t want it ripping itself to shreds.
I wonder where it sleeps during the day?
It was a rain-sun-rain-sun day all day. Ended up in the kitchen.
Depipped the plums I cooked the other day and ‘mooleyed’ them. (Basically squashed all into pulp) Hopefully will make into sauce or jam tomorrow
Then I decided to get on and use some of the cucumbers and made a double batch of my Nanna’s cucumber relish (Recipe in previous post here)
After boiling all the apple, cucumber, sugar and vinegar (er and supposedly the onion which I forgot about until I was almost ready to spoon it into jars!!!) then you add in the spices and thickener (I use cornflour)
I rectified the onion problem and started to fill my jars
All done
Again – this is pretty good on all meats and sandwiches.
Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend planned!
Cheers!
Lisa, that first pic looks like a big fluffy black cat not a possum to me! Big fluffy tail? Our possums don’t have hair on their tail as it is used to wrap around a tree branch to hang! Different continent, different branch of the family tree?
I was just thinking the same thing. West coast opossum’s don’t have long hair on their tails either. I think Pip has an admirer or friends coming for a play date.
lol – That play date would be interesting!! I don’t think any of the participants would be impressed haha
Hi Elizabeth! This is a Brush-Tailed possum. It is a marsupial. Other possums (like our Ring Tailed Possum)(all our possums are marsupials) have long curling tails that grab things. I agree – the way it landed out of the tree and posed was very cat-like! lol Very very different creatures to your North American Possums
Nope, Lisa is right. I live in the Southern US and our opossum’s look very different here. I did a bit of research after looking at some previous opossum pics Lisa had post. Very different to the almost ugly opossums of my area. Tasmania opossums are actually kinda cute!
Hi Jennifer! I also think they are cute. Probably won’t think they are cute if they wreck havoc in my vegetable patch, but right now everyone is concentrating on the apples – which are full of codling moth anyway, so I won’t be too devastated!
Torch:flashlight…your possums are adorable!
I didn’t think of that one!! Reckon I am going to have an interesting time in Texas while people look at me blankly as I motor on at top speed going ‘blah blah blah’ with an Australian accent! 😀
Texans will love your Aussie accent! It will be so fun to simply communicate with others, such a fun conversation starter. I am from Mississippi and when I traveled to Northern California for work no one could understand certain words I would say due to the Southern drawl. They all thought it was so “cute”. I never did figure out what was so cute about it. I would try to give report to an oncoming nurse at shift report and they would either burst into laughter or stare at me blankly. It was good fun, though!
lol – I enjoy the different accents and words too! Jeff listens to a fellow who does a youtube survival thing who has a beautiful southern accent. I love listening to him!
I remember when I travelled the States a long time ago my accent gave people a bit of grief. I recall trying to order a glass of water – asked three times before a friend helpfully translated my Australian ‘water’ into US ‘water’ lol