We’ve had a shitty day, literally – we mucked out the chicken and pigeon sheds, they hadn’t been done for years and they are full of rats!!!! We hate rats; we were always very careful not to encourage rats in Wales and if ever we saw one the dogs were put to use – Winnie was a fantastic ratter (must have been the terrier in her), Molly was enthusiastic but nowhere near as quick. Anyway we have now removed their food source, next we will fill in holes and then our last resource will be rat traps/ bait – there’s no way we’ll be living near rats. All the sheds are much more salubrious now.
We had an exciting occurrence this morning; we saw a dragonfly shed it’s exoskeleton, it even shed it’s legs! The original body was half the length of the new one. We took a photo at the start of the process and then watched it as the wings were pumped with colour (it was green so was it blood?); we monitored it for about an hour, it was happening very slowly and then we went and missed the final stage – it just flew off!
If you squint you can see the exoskeleton under the front legs
We met Gary as we were coming into the village; he was off cycling somewhere but said he would be back later. He and Betty, his dog, came to visit after lunch; he brought us a map of the area, which he’d got from the Tourist Information, which was very thoughful.
We visited Mark and Glen on our way back; they’re cutting out holes for floor beams – it’s hard work.
I’m happy as I ‘spoke’ to Hen on facebook this afternoon, when we went in to Castelo Branco to update the blog.
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