What a great weekend we had! Me and David spent the afternoon at the animal sanctuary and saw some gorgeous baby rainbow lorikeets. Shimmy the adult lorikeet got a bit jealous when Penny was syringe feeding the bubs.

I had picked up some free carry cages from Freecycle that I thought Penny could use, so we dropped them around to her and whilst we were there adopted 2 gorgeous rats! They have been at the sanctuary for some time now and now we have a play room especially for the rats we thought we could give them a loving home. Their names are Cookie and Ratty. Ratty is a boy, but he has been desexed so he can live happily with the girls. They are adorable and settling in well. They are a bit wary, but love having their free range time and are getting more confident every day.

Penny took us to the plant nursery next door to the sanctuary and it was so much fun. They provide plants to big stores like Bunnings and Aldi and all the plants that are not sold are returned and go on the compost heap. We were allowed to take whatever we wanted!  We took plants off of the trolleys by the compost heap and had even more fun climbing all over the heap finding plants and throwing them to each other. We filled up Penny’s van with about $1000 worth of plants and have spent this week planting them in the garden and in pots. They are all very healthy and were just a bit too big for the stores to sell. It felt like we had hit the jackpot when we drove home with our car full to the brim with plants and two cute little ratties in a carrier on our laps. Penny says we can go back and get more plants whenever we like! Check out the photos of our treasure…