baby blessings & other stuff

The Leicester and Hardman families ... lucky all the Leicester's weren't there or we wouldn't have fit in the photo!

Lewis was a little perplexed at the whole day! Look at those eyebrows!
Matt with his hands full!
And Hannah ...
cool dude!

We've been having some trouble with some of the electrics in our house for a little while with it getting worse and worse with the circuit breaker tripping at least once every day, sometimes a couple of times a day. We weren't sure what was causing it and couldn't isolate a particular appliance which might be causing the problem. On Friday night after the circuit breaker tripped 3 times in the space of as many minutes, we thought maybe our resident possum might have caused some damage. We often hear the possum scratching in the wall behind a particular power point in our lounge room.

So we unscrewed the power point ... this is what we found ...

The black and the yellow wires were pretty much stripped bare and when we unscrewed the power point we found the little bugger clinging to the wires and his teeth and nose poking out the hole checking us out! It was quite cute ... and lucky it wasn't dead!

We taped up the wires and poured naphthalene flakes in the hole, apparently they don't like the smell. Indeed, the possum has not been back in that spot ... yet. Now we have to block up it's entry/exit points and find the little creature a new home.


Max making paper planes

And the cutest baby boy in the world