Welcome to Words from Willow Pond

Willow Pond is the home of Deb and husband, Ian, their three adult children, Jossy, Kimmy & Dylan, Joss' husband, Chris, two lippizzaners, Dutchy & Obie, an Old English Sheepdog called Mitzi, the cutest Cavoodle ever, called Oscar, two orphaned Ringtail Possums, named Tamigotchi and Saori, two brush tail orphans, named Penny and Sheldon and other resident ringtail and brush tail possums and many geckos and frogs. Otis our rainbow lorikeet, whom we looked after for over 11 years, finally flew the coop and is enjoying the freedom of the skies.

Deb and her family have lived at Willow Pond for the past fourteen years.

Deb & Ian can sometimes be found down by the willow tree on a hot afternoon sharing a cold beer after spending the day gardening and mowing lawns.

Deb & Ian planted a young Willow tree about ten years ago down near their pond in the back paddock, and it has grown into a very fine specimen. They have since planted four more Willow saplings, which are growing well. The Willows inspired Deb to name the property Willow Pond. It is their hope that native wildlife will find shelter and a haven here like the characters from the children's classic, Wind in the Willows.

Deb enjoys creating ideas and writing here at Willow Pond. She intends to dedicate this blog to the adventures at Willow Pond with her family.

If you have found us by accident, or intentionally, then - Welcome and thank you for dropping by. We hope you enjoy your visit.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Revamped: Cimmaron Soul to Willow Pond

This blog site has been dormant for a little while now, but it always stayed in the back of my mind. I kind of left it so I could set up my book club and writers' club blog and because I'm not a technological IT sort of person, these things take time for me to implement. So I contented myself with one blog at a time: my Novel Tea 'n Pages blog and left things be.

However, now I'm back with new ideas and decided this blog needed a name change and a revamp, which I proceeded to do. Now I'm ready to begin.

I hope along the way I meet up with many new readers. It takes awhile I know, but here's hoping.

I am going to start my blog rolling by sharing some adventures about the experience of being thrown into the deep end of a  world previously unknown by me. This world that I speak of is that of 'Wildlife Carer'. It wasn't planned at all. I just kind of fell into it. But I won't spoil it here.

I plan to chronicle my journey because you see, this adventure was born out of necessity and the fact that I have a soft heart, or maybe because I am a 'soft touch'? Well, it doesn't matter. The thing is I began this journey with zero knowledge and have been on a steep learning curve the whole time, but I feel like I'm coming up to speed fast.

Like everything new, there are times I feel confident and other times not so confident, but there's no choice, you just keep pushing on through and hopefully at the end, there will be reward.

So, I hope you decide to join me on my journey. I hope that over time I end up building a journal that might prove useful to any novice that finds themselves in the situation I recently found myself in.

so, until next time...
love from Willow Pond
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