Day 1143 Poor little critters

26th September 2020

Kelli had been up twice in the night to feed the little dude.

When we returned after breakfast Kelli held it in her hand and watched as it died in front of her.

It was a horrible moment, there was nothing anyone could do, and she was really disappointed.

I was hoping that it would survive the first twenty-four hours, for Kelli’s sake. She cares for all creatures with the same compassion as she does with anyone she meets.

To add to this time of grief, Larry came over to announce that we had the wrong alternator. He showed me the difference between the original and the new, and clearly it was not the same.

Kelli rang round again to find the correct version, just as Mike arrived to work on the front lawn.

He was at our party, and I took the opportunity to ask if he could do something with it.

He turned up with his big truck and trailer filled with the instruments of death and destruction to lawns. He then proceeded to punctuate the ground with holes leaving slugs of dirt on the surface looking like we had been plagued with giant rabbit droppings.

We needed to go collect a new alternator from a different store and return the incorrect one.

As we couldn’t use the truck we had to cycle up to Kelli’s mom to borrow her vehicle. I had the alternator in a carrier bag on the handle bars. This did make the journey a little difficult with it continuously banging my leg, fortunately it was not far, and soon we were driving about collecting and dropping off car parts.

By then Mike had finished perforating our front garden, went off to source some top soil for the next stage of the makeover.

We had to return Mom’s car and collect our bikes.

Whilst we were there I had been coursed into trimming some bushes, a task I am not qualified to do, unless total destruction is expected, and then I’m an expert.

Having no idea of what I was doing I was dancing about clipping a branch here and a twig there like some demon barber.

I did manage to reshape them a bit, and it will always grow back and hide all my mistakes.

It had been a busy day full of twists and turns, and we even sold a piece of furniture.