A Close Encounter of the Marsupial Kind
When the holidays are over, I like to leave the garland
upon my deck. I replace the colorful
Christmas lights with white ones and switch out shimmery lavender bows for the
red Christmas ones. I call it my “winter
deck.”
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| My winter deck at night |
The other night when I went out to turn off the lights at
bedtime, the overhead deck light turned on because it is on a motion
sensor……and what to my wondering eyes should appear but a big, fat possum
munching on something on my deck!
Our
two-second, silent conversation went like this:
“Whhaaattt???”
“Whhaaattt???”
“You gonna hurt me?”
“No, you gonna hurt ME?”
“No, but what the hell are you doing on my deck?”
“Oh, well, I’m just helping myself to some of this lovely
stuff the birds left here.”
“I see. Ok, then, carry on.”
“Nah, I’m outta here!”
And with that he was gone. Strange.
