It is with a heavy heart that I have to let you all know that SnowPatrol died on Monday 17 December 2007. The little sausage was just not strong enough to cope without its parents, and they were not interested in him. In all fairness, I was told that they would attack the baby if there was something wrong with it, and there was definitely something not right with him. The poor little chap had very little co-ords and couldn’t eat very well by himself. I was very upset to find him lying in the bottom of the cage, even though every time I looked into the cage I was expecting him to be dead. So, I have buried him, and the even sadder news is the same parents rejected the other baby Cyan as well. However Cyan is a lot stronger and seems to have it’s wits about it, and can eat very well on its own. Cyan is becoming tamer by the day, and loves to get out the cage for a good fly around the house. I also let it bath yesterday as it had managed to get baby porridge all over it’s body and it had a ball, although once drenched it was no longer interested in the water. Unfortunately I don’t have a picture of Cyan here at the moment, but I will be sure to take some and then post them as well. My friend Sandy, will be looking after Cyan for the week that we will be away over Christmas, and has promised that she would let him out for a fly once a day. I just hope that the time spent far away from psycho parents will help ween it so that every time it is out the cage it doesn’t try going back to them. I was heart broken last night when it few to the other cage where the parents are and they looked at it like it was a bug or something, and it was crying to get to them. So I’m hoping the week away will help with the separation problem.
Today also marks the 34th week of my pregnancy, which means around 6 weeks to go, and believe me, I am hoping that they go quickly and yet slowly all at the same time. I am looking forward to snuggling the precious little baby inside me, but at the same time, dreading not having it with me every second of the day, even when it kicks me in the ribs and makes me want to cry out from the pain. It is a very active child already, and my tummy does some very interesting things these days, and you have to wonder what people think when my tummy is squirming all over, and I am “oblivious” to it. It is fun to watch though. Some days I wish I had one of those X-ray screens like they have in the cartoons, so I could see what the child is doing, because some of the things that I feel would take a complete contortionist to achieve, although I’d imagine Cygnet is quite the contortionist at the moment, being all curled up inside the womb.
Well, tomorrow is my last day at the office for this year, and then it is off to East London for a week for Christmas. It is going to be a long drive and hopefully not too uncomfortable. We’re having supper with my folks this evening to celebrate Christmas, since we won’t be here, so I’m hoping it will be fun. Then when we get back, I will have to fetch my car from the mechanic. Turns out the brakes were completely finished, metal on metal! And no one had any stock of the replacement disks, so I have left the car with him so that he can fix it while we are away. It will be nice to have new brakes again though. I was just very upset that in the 95000 odd kilometres that I have driven the car the brakes and disks have been a problem 3 times already. Not very good mileage out of them. Lets hope the new ones that he put on last longer.
Well that is me… I will keep notes of interesting things to post and let you have the updates when we get back.
Have a blessed Christmas and I hope the Spirit of God fills every moment of it.
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