Thursday, May 18, 2006
Yowah Opal Festival and Varmit Poo
The opal festival in Yowah, Queensland is getting close (the middle of July) If I get my ticket to Australia in time to get there I will need to clear out the varmits that take up residence while I am gone nine months or pay someone to do it for me if I won't make it . I do that as I open the place to be used by one of the judges of the Designer contest I started about ten years ago. Her name is Barbara Gasche and she lives in the opal field of White Cliffs. Also there are usually three others that need a place to sleep during the festival as the town with only six units that are motel accomodations opens its private home's doors to tourists and buyers coming for the event. The cleaning job includes ridding the place of "varmit debris".There is a permanent so far for five years, goanna that lives in the ceiling and scuttles and scrapes thru the insulation. Sounds just like a snake. Also I will need to scrub away the telltale signs of life death struggles on my walls. the ceiling is nothing but corrugated tin with thin silvery sheet of insulation on it so the insulated fibro walls stop where the tall gabled roof begins and leaves a ledge for my goanna to hunt upon all around the central lounge/kitchen room.. The blood and feces of dying mice and lizards and frogs sorta run down my white walls here and there during the ten months I'''m gone. That is the first bit of scrubbing I do after the toilet and tub. The toilet will be full of frogs if the last miners to use my camp didnt shut off the cistern water and dry it up. Also all bedding will need washing and hanging out in the sun for freshening up. as will have five guests sleeping at the camp during the festival. I wander on dont I? I dont get to be prepared for my guests if I dont get my ticket to Australia soon. The pressure is on.