Monday 12 March 2012

Clean up almost done

Yesterday I slept practically the entire day. I had no energy whatsoever. I presume it is from the last 9 days. We have almost finished things around the house. The enclosures are another story but I have contacted one of our local radio stations for assistance and they are going to come out on Wednesday and see if they can help. We would never normally ask for any help with our volunteer work but under these circumstances, there is only so much you can do.

To add to everybody's frustration with the flood damage, our local council in all their wisdom have apparently been 'watching' the main dirt road deteriorate over a section of the main creek. This has now begun to collapse in a major way, it started last week and by Friday it was not good at all. Council then closed the road Friday morning. What does this now mean - a 35-40km detour to get to the village alone, let alone Canberra or anywhere else. And ironically we received our rates notice in the same week as well, I won't even bother to comment here. I'll comment to council directly instead but yes, that now adds to all the others costs, etc. BUT at least it hasn't rained for 3 days now which has given us time to certainly get things fixed.

Wombat wise, well the burrows are either collapsed or flooded. Doing major work there. The lack of burrows has led one of our males to become incredibly aggressive, due to territory and he has certainly put on of our males in a very bad way. Harry is doing okay though. We got him before the flies did thankfully and he is eating. He is also on medication and resting. We have him in a pipe and have covered the entrances to keep the flies out during the day. Mr Bean is also doing much better. His wounds aren't smelling as much and he is responding well to medication. He has also started to eat again thankfully. Just no more to come in, that would truly push the limits here. Thankfully all the females around appear to be just fine, albeit wet and muddy. It still amazes me as to where they in fact go when this happens. Logs I would imagine.

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