Saturday 7 July 2012
It has not been
a great week, I have to say, the weather has been great on one day and crap for
most of the rest of them. Yesterday was very wet, although we have been very
lucky in comparison to others, at least any flooding here is usually
containable. Mine you if I had a house that was liable to flooding I think I
would change the design of the inside and get rid of all carpets, have
waterproof floors and rugs and electrics up high, particularly if I had flooded
more than once.
On Tuesday I had
a delicious colonoscopy, the day before was dire as usual but the colonoscopy
was also not much fun. I looked at the notes afterwards and on the discomfort
note it said mild!!!! Not from where I was feeling it is was not, it was a
close call that they did not have to scrape me off the ceiling and the pain
killer was particularly ineffective!!! I needed much more!
But Wednesday
was the worst day, the weather was ironically a nice day, but Mozart had to be
put down and that was like a cloud of doom for most of the week after I had
taken the decision.
Thursday the
weather was lovely, first thing I dug the grave for Mozart and everyone helped.
The dogs tried to help, but as usual were rather more of a hindrance, Leaf did
not help by getting into the grave while we will trying to fill it in! We put
him at the very end of the lower middle lawn as close to his aviary as
possible, the other lawn would actually have been where he had lived when
tethered all those years ago, but we thought he would prefer to be by his
aviary. Interestingly as we dug we hit sand which means we were digging where
the original compartments for the falcons were before we enlarged the Hawk
Walk. He has a stone over his grave and it will be carved with his name when we
have a dry enough period to do it.
On a better note
the Lesser Kestrel is now charming and not trying to foot everyone who puts a
hand near, she is wearing jesses and will soon be old enough to live outside
during the day on a perch. Holly has the young Grey Buzzard Eagle out – she is
feeding on the perch already and I guess Holly will start picking her up next
week, it will exciting as we have never trained a completely new juvenile one
of this species. Come to think of it I have never trained a Lesser Kestrel
chick either!
The new website
for The Falconry Weekend is complete and up – www.thefalconryweekend.com
will get you there and I think it all works well, I really like Joomla it is
fun to use and relatively easy and you don’t have to worry about all that awful
html stuff!!!
My washing
machine has recovered slightly, but I suspect is probably going to die again in
the not too distant future, probably at a vital time.
Other than that
it is the weekend, the weather is holding just about and I am praying the jet
stream will move very soon!!
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