Thunder And Lightning

Oscar Dominguez 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Dom%C3%ADnguez

Yesterday evening when Richie and the dogs were in the park, I saw dark clouds and thought that any moment there would be a thunderstorm.

Luckily nothing happened while Richie was in the park, and the dogs had a great time.

Later on after we had gone to sleep there was a thunderstorm which went on for hours, every time I thought it was finished there was another roll of thunder.

It was accompanied by torrential rain which lasted all night until it was daylight.

The noise of the storm and the rain was soon replaced by the sound of birds on the bird feeder outside the bedroom window.

There were jackdaws who like the fat balls and parakeets that come for the peanuts as well as blue and great tits.

We have been thinking about putting a web cam on the balcony so that we can see exactly which birds visit our bird feeder.

A couple weeks ago a woodpecker was one of the visitors; at our last apartment we saw 24 types of birds in the garden behind us.

We saw sparrows in the garden but since we're live here I have not seen any not surprisingly as they like to stay close to the ground.

The other reason we don't see them so much is that they are becoming almost extinct in the Netherlands.

Despite the storm last night I somehow managed to sleep which was good, today is the third day of the bacteria treatment and it is going well.

Next week Tuesday Richie has an appointment with our doctor, so she can take swabs in order to check if the treatment has been successful.

I expect we will have to wait at least a week to get the results back from the laboratory so we have to be patient and hope it has worked.

It will be brilliant if Richie is finally cured of this horrible skin infection which has been so painful for him for the last four years.

Sunny and Blue Skies in November.

Autumn.


Seemed to be drifting off to sleep only to realise hours later that it was not happening so woke up Richie for some help.

Soon went off to sleep and slept until 11 am which was very pleasant indeed, woke up dreaming about making bread out of black eyed peas!

A strange dream, though guess you could add black eye peas to bread dough, but would I really want to do so.

Did have a space chocolate but it did not seem to have any effect, so after several hours of sleep not happening, got Richie to give me a muscle relaxant tablet, which seemed to work reasonably quickly.

Richie says I seemed to go off to sleep quickly after the tablet, wonder whether the space chocolate finally worked too.

Might have done when I was no longer worried about was it happening or not, that is the time when both worked.

Could explain the excellent sleep which I had last night, nothing woke me up, which was wonderful.

I usually hear everything; can be annoying, as Richie can’t creep off to the toilet, without it waking me up.

I think that both worked which gave me a brilliant peaceful night’s sleep.

Today is sunny with blue skies despite the forecasts of terrible weather, down pouring of rain along with high winds.

So far nothing, just blue skies and the occasional white fluffy cloud and a never ending line of little Great Tits and Blue Tits landing and departing with nuts at the bird feeder.

November through to February and March are top visiting times at the bird feeder after March the birds all concentrate on insects.

Sleep proves elusive before Thursday.

Last night seemed so relaxed but no matter how much I tried sleep eluded me for hours.

When at 5.15 I still could not sleep Richie gave me a lorazepam and that seemed to do the trick and I slept until about 12.30 when I was awake again.

I do feel that I have taken a pill; it makes me feel slightly weary of everything which is not how I usually feel or how I like to feel.

It is a sort of seedy feeling as if you have rented out your body and are not sure the temporary tenants did not trespass where they should not have.

Think opiates always give you that feeling, the feeling of being lived by proxy that is why I do not usually like to use these pills.

It was just did not want to go totally without sleep especially as I want to be relaxed for the big appointment tomorrow.

So may take one of those lorazepam tonight but then right away and not when the night is near over like this morning.

No wonder I feel so seedy today, as I did not sleep for the full time that I could have slept.

The day has been bright and sunny, the blue sky is now get ting cloudier as the afternoon comes to an end here, and it is 16.35 here.

This is why I hate the time being changed as we can never fully appreciate these fine autumn afternoons and evenings.

This is end of the afternoon, the blue tits have been stocking up on peanuts, so have the parakeets, today eating and not squabbling with each other.

Have to get Richie to top up the nuts soon so as to keep the birds well fed; they do need it now there are fewer insects.

Love to see the birds at the bird feeder, realise more these days how much I still miss the beautiful wildlife in Trinidad.

Had not realised that there were over 30 species of lizards in Trinidad and as many types of frogs.

Also an amazing amount of birds a real treasure chest of wildlife, thankfully they realised what a little gold mine they were sitting on so the wild life in Trinidad is being protected now.

Sadly not in time to save the ocelot, there are no wild ocelots roaming free in Trinidad but it is the place to visit if one is a wild life enthusiast.

Here is a link to the Asa Wright Nature Centre


http://www.asawright.org/


Here is a link to the wiki Natural History of Trinidad and Tobago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_history_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago