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I am insured! Adulting takes way too long. It's taken over a year and a half to get onto the home/contents insurance (which is actually only contents, because the home is entirely included in the strata insurance) and then another, geeze, month of researching and comparing and finally nailing it down. I'm covered for bushfires, which is really all that properly matters. Also flood. Which. Yep. I'm on top of a hill in the driest state in the country, but sure, flood cover comes standard.
Meanwhile, tree gone!
Before and, well, during, I guess. I couldn't fit all the leafy bits in the green bins, alas, so that pile sits there until next weekend after the green bins are emptied.
As Dad was hacking at it with the chainsaw, halfway through he suddenly went, 'Aaaah, Anna?' and turned the chainsaw off. Nestled in behind the branch he'd just felled was a nest with two pigeon chicks in it. I had no idea they were even there! They were both completely stiff, probably scared shitless, so I carefully picked up the nest and relocated them to a nice thick bush down by the driveway. The mother came back and sat on the roof staring at the not-tree in obvious distress, and the chicks still weren't making any noise, but eventually she did find where they were. She flew off and came back several times, always coming back first to the not-tree before finding the nest again. Silly pigeon. I'm sure she's forgotten all about it by now.
Yesterday Mum and I went succulent shopping, so I have a row of them sitting under the window now awaiting planting, along with my lemon tree, lime tree and tangello tree. SO EXCITED! Can't do anything until I can clear away the rest of the tree, though. But YAY!
Meanwhile, tree gone!
Before and, well, during, I guess. I couldn't fit all the leafy bits in the green bins, alas, so that pile sits there until next weekend after the green bins are emptied.
As Dad was hacking at it with the chainsaw, halfway through he suddenly went, 'Aaaah, Anna?' and turned the chainsaw off. Nestled in behind the branch he'd just felled was a nest with two pigeon chicks in it. I had no idea they were even there! They were both completely stiff, probably scared shitless, so I carefully picked up the nest and relocated them to a nice thick bush down by the driveway. The mother came back and sat on the roof staring at the not-tree in obvious distress, and the chicks still weren't making any noise, but eventually she did find where they were. She flew off and came back several times, always coming back first to the not-tree before finding the nest again. Silly pigeon. I'm sure she's forgotten all about it by now.
Yesterday Mum and I went succulent shopping, so I have a row of them sitting under the window now awaiting planting, along with my lemon tree, lime tree and tangello tree. SO EXCITED! Can't do anything until I can clear away the rest of the tree, though. But YAY!