Endangered Animals

Okay, we may be late.  But better late than never, huh?
We want to support our friend Louis' Endangered Animals Post.
First, for Kismet, we will show you the Orange-bellied Parrot.  It's facing extinction...sigh....such a sweet little birdie, huh.

And the Eastern quoll.

(our friend Charlie already told you about the

northern hairy-nosed wombat.)

Look at this little creature ,

(cover your ears, Madi)

also called the native cat,

isn't it sweet?

Well, it is pretty much extinct

(can something be pretty much extinct?

It's a bit like  a terrible tragedy......)

Anyway, it only lives in Tasmania now.  The mainland quolls

are endangered....critically endangered.

Don't you think they deserve to live WITH us?

Even if they are just good for those troublesome tiles in Scrabble?

As are quokka, below, who are not endangered.

We do!

(Note:  Please EXCUSE, this post was written under the influence

of Semillon Cabernet Blanc.)

HURRY UP!!

Toy renewal...

One of my Christmas presents from my ♥♥♥Ernie♥♥♥

is this squeaky, crinkly dog.

 I love carrying it around, keeping it away from Dui,

squeaking it in his face.

But it stopped squeaking.

SHE had a look and discovered there was a

bottle inside it, with a cap that squeaked.

 Off to the shop where she bought a

replacement bottle!

Switch of the bottle cap, insert the new bottle

in the velcroed bit.

We know it's a bit rude.

 And we're good to go!

PLUS, we have five more replacement bottles!

(Hope the squeaker cap lasts that long.)

Crazy Weather...

We were out early this morning.

Out before the sun came out.

 A beautiful sunrise means there are clouds about.

This is Roxy being a crazy dog after being

allowed off the lead.  She rolled in something disgusting,

and had to walk sedately with HER for a while.

 She raced madly around  annoying scotties.

 When we got home, this happened.

 A downpour of very LOUD rain...

thunder and wind.

After about an hour, the rain

stopped and everything dried out.

 The wind picked up and...

More rain and WIND.  All day long.

Just crazy

(We liked the cooler temperature, though.)

Remains of the Play...

Dui

We're hibernating...

AFTER our early morning walk.

Friday the Thirteenth...

We went to the river early,

Where we met a new friend, Coco.

 She joined in our wild games.

That girl can really RUN!

 It was starting to heat up, so we had a few dunks in the river.

Then home for the usual quick rinse.

We dried off under the ceiling fans, before the mercury hit 42°C/107.6°F.

It was a good day for sleeping in the

air conditioned house.

(Actually, we've been very lucky so far.  This was our hottest day.  The very hot weather has been to the north and west of us.

Today should be a more reasonable 33°C/91°F.)