23 April 2007 - Few words

First, something I don't want to write about.

A couple of days ago, I posted a couple of photos of a little gecko that's been sharing my home. I've got no wife here, no hound, few posetions, just a house. It's been made a little more homely with a familliar face, the quirky little gecko with the stumpy tail.

This morning I went looking for him, as I made breakfast, as the last couple of days I've found him in there, probably scrounging crumbs, or whatever it is gecko do when we're asleep. Today I couldn't find him, not in the usual places anyway. Never mind, he'll turn up.

So I had breakfast.

Washing up my bowl before heading off to work, I stepped back from the sink and felt something crunch under my heal. I'd stepped on him.

Worse, for both of us, he was mortally wounded. Alive, and looking back at me as I looked down, but with no way he was going to make it. I had to finish him off. One of those things you do straight away, because you never could if you thought about it. Really, upsetting.


It's little things like this that make the going tough here some days. Some of these things I don't write about - things that, well, I guess 'you just had to be there'. Sometime I don't feel like keeping the blog going, when I know I leave things out. So if there are gaps in the postings, it's probably because I have nothing to say, in some kind of way.


Second, the rest of the day.

So I had a heavy heart all day, and probably for a while to come yet. Todays trip was to Hooker creek, where the only passenger I was taking was, at some time through a 3hr council meeting, to give when called upon a 15 minute presentation. And then return to Darwin. Needless to say my mind wasn't entirally on the job, and I'm sure our client thought I was miserable company.

While I waited, I grabbed some lunch at a local 'shop', and began hatching plans for my new website - www.davesdodgydogs.com, where I'll place all my photos of the dodgy dogs I've seen, including todays doozy, a hound in four quaters of different colors and, most likly, four quaters of different breeds. Unique. Don't hold your breath on the site getting on line any time soon.


On return to Darwin, more hours, and another new destination.