I'm baaaack
Oct. 5th, 2003 02:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eWell, I'm finally online again after various assorted problems, including my main computer dying!
It took me more than half an hour tonight to download my email -- 802 messages!! most of which were spam... grrrr!
Seems to be some problem with my email -- I can't send. I'll get it sorted out tomorrow or Monday.
This place I've moved into is wonderful. I can only see one other house in the valley from this property. There are a few other houses in the valley but they are over other hills kms in each direction. Today I stood entranced while a wallaby grazed about a dozen steps from me just outside the house. I wake each morning to a veritable chorus of birds, including kookaburras, which I didn't realise lived here. The other day I threw out some waste food and a bearded lizard (about 18 inches long) came out of the garden to investigate. I haven't seen one of those since I was a kid and used to catch, draw, and release them and snakes. I believe there are a lot of snakes here, but have only seen one rather large (dangerous-looking) one so far. Apparently there is a cute carpet python living here too. I'm hoping to see it -- it will help keep any adventurous rodents under control. I had forgotten how many insects and spiders live in the country (I grew up in the bush and am not squeamish about them). Oh, and there is the sweetest-looking enormous green tree frog living in the toilet cistern.
*big sigh of contentment*
It took me more than half an hour tonight to download my email -- 802 messages!! most of which were spam... grrrr!
Seems to be some problem with my email -- I can't send. I'll get it sorted out tomorrow or Monday.
This place I've moved into is wonderful. I can only see one other house in the valley from this property. There are a few other houses in the valley but they are over other hills kms in each direction. Today I stood entranced while a wallaby grazed about a dozen steps from me just outside the house. I wake each morning to a veritable chorus of birds, including kookaburras, which I didn't realise lived here. The other day I threw out some waste food and a bearded lizard (about 18 inches long) came out of the garden to investigate. I haven't seen one of those since I was a kid and used to catch, draw, and release them and snakes. I believe there are a lot of snakes here, but have only seen one rather large (dangerous-looking) one so far. Apparently there is a cute carpet python living here too. I'm hoping to see it -- it will help keep any adventurous rodents under control. I had forgotten how many insects and spiders live in the country (I grew up in the bush and am not squeamish about them). Oh, and there is the sweetest-looking enormous green tree frog living in the toilet cistern.
*big sigh of contentment*