Way back in 2009 when Agent Smith and I were at a garden store in Melbourne, we came across a cute little metal sculpture of a Kookaburra and thought, someday, when we have a garden of our own, we’d like to have something like that in said garden.
Well, in April of this year when I was migrating from one photo management tool (Aperture) to another (Capture One), I came across a picture of the Kookaburra that I took. I did some online sleuthing, found that garden store, and sent them an email asking if by some slim happy circumstance of chance they still had it. The kind staff at the Fitzroy Nursery wrote back to say that they had actually two in stock, one like the photo (a one meter rod) and another that did not have a rod, but could be put atop a pole or on a flat surface.
So the very next day I called them (they’re 17 hours ahead) and gave them my payment info. One week later, I got a package!
Needless to say we’re delighted to have such a unique little sculpture that will eventually live outside in our garden area. I say ‘eventually’ as the landscaping project managed to stall out, and at the time of this post, I’ve just fired our first architect and am trying to get them to cough up the work we have paid for up to now while settling on a new firm that is more up to the unique task.