Today

Last night I made a commitment to myself: one piece of writing per day. I already had the content for my first piece so I was good to go.

I got out of bed this morning and jumped straight into mapping my day, if I don’t plan then life just happens and I find myself at the end of the day with only a few of my tasks completed. By the time my young adult son was up I had already completed more than an hour of sourdough baking prep and I was in flow.

“Are we going for a swim?” he asks and normally the answer is straight up yes but I was in the zone so I wasn’t sure. After looking at the timing of everything yep there was definitely a window with enough time for a swim. This decision alone is significant for me. Whilst I have always loved swimming, my preferred water has always been a swimming pool, rivers and the ocean were a source of fear for me and sand, well don’t get me started ……. it gets into everything! So here I was choosing to jump out of my “zone” and go to the beach for a swim at 6:30am. There is a whole other story here …perhaps tomorrow.

Today, I had my day perfectly mapped out; phone calls would be made around the timing of sourdough, running the first test on a different dough I haven’t made before, writing up my baking notes and writing my piece for the day. All was going well, I was on the phone when something caught my eye …… there was a snake on the stairs in my house! Wait, what? No I didn’t get that wrong; THERE WAS A SNAKE ON THE STEPS IN MY HOUSE! Unless you are a snake lover I am sure you can imagine the words out of my mouth. My son who was sitting three metres away from it couldn’t figure out why I had just lost the plot and my daughter and her two year old were just about to walk up behind it. What on earth!!

The concise version; four phone calls later we had it confirmed that loopy was a non venomous green tree snake, who by the way was brown and yellow not green, and the only snake catcher in town today would be over pronto.

We did all the right things …..blocked all the possible escape routes into rooms with a thousand hidey holes and opened the big wide front door so he could easily escape. But before the catcher could arrive Mr Loopy had a better idea…… the wall cavity of the bathroom sliding door was the perfect spot to get away from these noisy crazy bi-peds. Try as he might the catcher could not extricate loopy without knocking a hole in the wall and so I opted to go the gentle route and wait for Mr Loopy to leave of his own accord. At one point we thought calling the catcher out a second time would bring results because Bob Loopy as he was now called, was actually lying on top of the door with his coils across the door tracks. Nope! This little guy was sneaky, he had actually weaved his way through some holes and as the catcher gently pulled he puffed up making it impossible to proceed without harming him.

I am seriously not a fan of snakes, they really do give me the heeby jeebies, but I have to acknowledge I possibly manifested this visitor ……. the old saying be careful what you wish for…… I had been complaining about the cute little geckos that ran around my house at night, they make such a mess! No really, they are very messy creatures. It is likely Mr Loopy came in chasing one of said Geckos and it turns out he was doing the environment a huge favour, those messy gecko’s are actually imports and therefore a pest.

So tonight I will be attempting to sleep knowing Mr Loopy is still hanging around, although apparently, he is not nocturnal so the chances are he is sleeping too! Oh and yes I managed to make the sourdough ready for baking tomorrow, even though it was hard to focus on anything other than the spot where loopy was hanging out. Wish me luck! I imagine all manner of interesting snaky dreams will be my lot tonight. 🙂