So last night I went to bed really early & enjoyed a few pages of the last book in Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy. Such good writing! Even so, I was probably asleep by 9pm therefore woke up after a good night's rest at around 4:30am. This pleasantly surprised The Cat, who is quite used to having Santo to himself for at least an hour most mornings. Apart from jumping up to wake me/say hello briefly, that is....
It was already light, who would have thunk?
After First Tea I went for my usual morning stroll around & meandered into the main veggie patch. I had just checked out the asparagus & decided there was not quite enough to pick for breakfast, when I all but trod on a goddamm snake! Yep, you had better believe it, yesterday it was a Juvenile Eastern Brown around 20cm long sunning itself on the driveway, today a definitely Adult Eastern Brown...longer than 1m, guessing around 4 feet long.....Yikes! I screeched & bolted a few feet away then turned to watch it nonchalantly head to a hidey hole in the middle of our garden, at the edge of our pond. Sadly it looked quite at home....a Resident in the middle of our vegetable garden!
Given that a woman died within a 2 hour drive from here, apparently from multiple bites from a Brown snake in her garden last week, this has prompted us both to be far more careful about everywhere we go & everything we do outside here now. You really don't want to put a foot wrong, so to speak.......
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