Sniffle Sniffle

My friend Kaz phoned me today and suggested an illness 'remedy' that we've both known about for a while, but haven't had the chance to try.

Half an onion in the bedroom next to the bed.

I'm going to try it tonight - I'll give you the results tomorrow.  Hopefully, I'll wake up cured!

I just took the dogs outside to pee.  I opened the laundry door and the dogs went tearing outside barking like they were chasing something.

There, at eye level, draped along the top of the fence was this unhappy chappy ...

It's an Eastern Brown Tree Snake, considered venomous but not dangerous - which kind of seems a bit contradictory to me!

Psychotic dogs didn't even know it was there, although they may have smelt it and that's why they were barking as they were.

It crawled along the fence towards the clothes line (which is attached to the fence), so goodness only knows where he came from or where he went!  I hope we don't find out the hard way!

I do know that I won't be leaving the laundry door open all day and half the night, as I have in the past for the dogs' convenience!

That's the second snake I've seen on that side of the house.

They are probably eating chook eggs!  That may be why we are only getting one egg each day!

Adoring Husband is not a big fan of snakes.  I guess I'm not either, but only because I'm not confident identifying them and I wouldn't know if I'd found a deadly snake or not.  As it was, I did a google search to discover what this one was.  Thank God for the internet!!

Enough of this frivolity.  Time to get myself and my medicinal onion ready for bed.

Nite all (sniffle sniffle)