Fat possums dancing on the roof...
So we had an earthquake tremor the other day. It made our house shake. And my first thought was that it was:
a) our washing machine malfunctioning, or
b) a fat possum dancing on our roof.
That probably tells you volumes about the architectural soundness of our house.
But seriously, the washing machine is really that shaky when we run it, because it's cheap and we bought it for half price at Kmart and it really isn't capable of handling a full load of laundry, let alone the double loads we wash because we're too lazy to do laundry more than once a week. Normally it only makes the shed and the toilet shake (because everywhere else is brick), but it's the same kind of noise, frequency of vibrations, etc as that earthquake. And Charis and I were looking at each other and thinking "is that my washing or yours?" when we realised that the washing machine wasn't on, and that the living room was shaking.
So then we thought it was possums, because they climb on the roof and make lots of noise and sometimes you can feel it in the walls, especially when they're fighting with each other. Except it must have been a REALLY FAT possum to make the whole house shake, and normally it's more of a clang and bump noise than a trembling noise because of the fact that possums are little and when they get thrown around by other possums it's a very acute dent and you can locate the part of the roof they fell off by where the noise comes from. Plus there were no shrieking noises so it couldn't have been possums.
So then we thought someone was breaking into our house, but there was no-one there.
And then the news came on and told us it was an earthquake.
Which was kind of a relief, because I really didn't want to deal with monster-sized possums keeping me awake at night for the rest of the year.
a) our washing machine malfunctioning, or
b) a fat possum dancing on our roof.
That probably tells you volumes about the architectural soundness of our house.
But seriously, the washing machine is really that shaky when we run it, because it's cheap and we bought it for half price at Kmart and it really isn't capable of handling a full load of laundry, let alone the double loads we wash because we're too lazy to do laundry more than once a week. Normally it only makes the shed and the toilet shake (because everywhere else is brick), but it's the same kind of noise, frequency of vibrations, etc as that earthquake. And Charis and I were looking at each other and thinking "is that my washing or yours?" when we realised that the washing machine wasn't on, and that the living room was shaking.
So then we thought it was possums, because they climb on the roof and make lots of noise and sometimes you can feel it in the walls, especially when they're fighting with each other. Except it must have been a REALLY FAT possum to make the whole house shake, and normally it's more of a clang and bump noise than a trembling noise because of the fact that possums are little and when they get thrown around by other possums it's a very acute dent and you can locate the part of the roof they fell off by where the noise comes from. Plus there were no shrieking noises so it couldn't have been possums.
So then we thought someone was breaking into our house, but there was no-one there.
And then the news came on and told us it was an earthquake.
Which was kind of a relief, because I really didn't want to deal with monster-sized possums keeping me awake at night for the rest of the year.