Although I didn't know it yet today would be the day I hit the wall. Today broke me in more ways than one. It started off fine, the rain had stopped finally after nearly 24hours of constant downpour. When I say downpour I mean torrential, loud, deafing rain that soaks everything even if your not actually out in it.
I had quarentine with our two new house guests but I knew I was on gibbons already. They all seemed pretty calm today, all was going well till I got to the second from last cage. Projectile shit. Now all the gibbons were a bit loose today, they had had lots of treats yesterday but this was a whole other level. All four walls, the bars, and floors were covered. I got Kerry to take a sample before I cleaned as this gibbon has had a funny tummy for a few days now. Then I set to work. These cages are small at the best of times, menouvering around then with ropes and logs, trying not to get grabbed is hard enough and you end up soaked from back splash. But this was not even funny!
After completion I was soaked, but decided to finish the floor outside their cages that I had started to scrub the other day. It was looking rather wonderful if I may say so myself. I still finished before all the others so Kerry handed me a saw and sent me off to the jungle to collect branches.
Me and a sharp object without supervision I hear you say. No no, I didn't cut myself I just managed to let go of a branch to quick and it hit me in the face, I then had half a tree dragging behind me and I walked into a sign post, scratching me knee! I got back to quarentine and split the tree into 5 one for each of the cages and double for the one that houses a pair. I smothered them in jam and set to work creating each it's own little jungle.
By the time I finished I was covered in jam, my knee was turning blue and then Edie came round the corner having had a log dropped on her foot! Lunch was in order.
As if I had literally lost all of my sanity I opted for the farm AGAIN! And this is where my body gave up, and my brain pretty much agreed. The sun was out in force and maintaining the level of work we had been outputting previously was quickly diminishing. At 4pm Mel and I were done! We got a lift back to the centre, I burnt dinner and then we decided to play a few games of scrabble with the other two newbies from up the road.
I even made it to 9.30pm but I was broken!
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