{"id":1601,"date":"2014-07-21T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2014-07-21T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T06:57:08","slug":"spring-has-sprung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"Spring has Sprung"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day preceded by an overnight low of -5.\u00a0 The wildlife hasn\u2019t been reading or listening to weather reports.\u00a0 A magpie was busy selecting some of the copious cat fur decorating the seat of the office chair on the verandah.\u00a0 Indie has displayed herself on it in the past and left her calling card.\u00a0\u00a0 The bird was welcome to it and it spent ages selecting sufficient to surround her beak with a fine light fuzz.\u00a0 She then hopped over towards the glass door where a dog was stretched out on the other side.\u00a0 Perhaps she had thoughts of adding to the
\ncolour scheme with some personal plucking.\u00a0 She returned to the chair and further fur selection before flying off.\u00a0 I\u2019ve left dog hair out in the past with the hope a bird would put it to good use, but doubt it happened.\u00a0 It\u2019s always ended up in great drifts in the carport catching leaves and general grot until I\u2019ve raised the energy to deal with it.\u00a0 Bushfire season has always been a good galvanizer of such action.<\/p>\n

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I enjoyed some time on the verandah chatting to Floyd and dealing with some washing.\u00a0 Even Floyd sounds brighter and chattier with the sunny weather.\u00a0 While there I heard and saw the first blow fly of the season.<\/p>\n

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This morning the animals were stretched out enjoying the sun.\u00a0 After taking advantage of the photo op, through the door so as not to disturb the pose, I put washing on the line and investigated some of the flowers in bloom.\u00a0 Some came out before the cold snap started about 6 weeks ago but others are emerging all the time.\u00a0 The blow flies were numerous and making a racket as they flew around the garden.\u00a0 It must be time to get the fly trap out of mothballs.<\/p>\n

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This afternoon I went shopping for kangaroo mince for Indie.\u00a0 I had expected to sail, well, hobble, into the first shop and leave with a kilo of human grade roo
\nmince for one cat.\u00a0 The roo mince section was resoundingly empty.\u00a0 I tried to
\nplunder the next supermarket to meet the same result.\u00a0 While not completely out of roo mince we didn\u2019t have far to go before facing the equivalent of Mother\u00a0 Hubbard\u2019s cupboard and an Indie without her favourite food is not for the faint hearted. \u00a0I was a bit desperate.\u00a0 I drove for miles to a shop where I fully expected to find the required food.\u00a0 Again, I met an empty shelf.\u00a0 I succumbed to a tray of kangaroo filet as I had more plastic capacity than energy to search additional shops.\u00a0 Now there is the additional job of finely cutting half a kilo of\u00a0roo.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Unfortunately stock piling even of small quantities of roo mince doesn\u2019t work.\u00a0 Did I mention she is fussy and an excellent trainer of humans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day preceded by an overnight low of -5.\u00a0 The wildlife hasn\u2019t been reading or listening to weather reports.\u00a0 A magpie was busy selecting some of the copious cat fur decorating the seat of the office chair on the verandah.\u00a0 Indie has displayed herself on it in the past and left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}