@cowcockie maybe chasing them back across the creek is the best solution, but it would be a major undertaking.
Roses: years ago, when my husband died, I had him buried at Pinnaroo, which is a lawn cemetery. I used to go there and just sit on the ground, by the grave, talk to him, sometimes weep, or watch some other mourners. One day - and I was well into my mourning period - I watched a lady in black staking out the grave of her beloved with roses - she had at least 2 dozen red roses, all neatly arrayed round the grave. Then she left. No sooner was she out of the way, when 2 kangaroos appeared and gobbled up all the roses. Sadly, it tickled my sense of humour, or perhaps I realised that life was a constant carousel, where one woman's pain was another's gain - in this case, tasty roses - and that all life was interconnected and ephemeral.
It helped with my grief, I had a laugh, and I didn't go back to the cemetery for quite a while after that and my grief became manageable.
I had troubles with possums last year, who decided to reside in my garage and crawled into the ceiling space above the lounge room. No sign of them this year - fingers crossed. When they first turned up, I thought I had been invaded by spirits from hell - they were screeching and yelling like banjees and I could hear them on the roof and in the ceiling spaces - seems that's how they celebrate 'love' . . . . I was absolutely terrified for a split-second, am not easily frightened, though and realised I was hearing animal sounds and not ghosts.
Wonder what the New Year has in store for me and all of us, better things i hope!!
Keep us posted re kangaroos!
Taurisk
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