ntch - yes we can put in vegies, not sure about the poultry. No pond (dam) for ducks. Even though there is a snakeproof fence around the home paddock, it still has a gate! There are bloody big brown snakes (google them) around here.
Boys are going to love it I agree.
Mellie - hope the market picks up for you.
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Kaz - it sounds wonderful. Small house = less cleaning :-)
I'd love a big yard too.Posted 1 year ago # -
Lazycow - I always thought I wanted a house with more than one bathroom, until I got it! I hate cleaning bathrooms and the kids used ours most of the time anyway. This one has a second loo in the laundry which will be good. Figure it will take about an hour to clean the house tops. Woohoo!!!!
The yard will take a bit longer to mow though. Outside paddock get slashed and the back paddock has a shetland pony agisted on it. Gotta keep the home yard low cause of the snakes outside the fence. I want to keep them there!Posted 1 year ago # -
That's scary about the snakes! I'm glad you will be keeping the grass cut low. That will help more than anything.
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I'm thinking of using Evernote to write down what pieces of furniture I'm keeping in each room; is this wacky?
@Kaz I grew up with copperheads, so I am frantically making warding motions at the snakes. I like them, but well away from me!
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lucy, i use evernote for way wackier things than that.
i say GO FOR IT.Posted 1 year ago # -
I looked at it last night. I'll definitely aet it up once I'm back in the little house this week. No kids to pick up after, but taking a carload with me this afternoon and DH took a few Billys and boxes of books down for me to rebuild and fill.
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The boys got to see the house on the weekend. The youngest wants to know why we can't stay in our BIG house, the eldest was running around the paddocks like a loon. Once they worked out the could lock each other in jail (the dog cages) and the youngest could collect a toll each time we went through the gate that he opened, they settled down. They were impressed by the horses, but....
Then they saw the emus in the next paddock! Better than kangaroos in my estimation.
Have discovered the pros and cons of rain here. Pro: fills our water tanks. Con: makes the drive up the yard very slippery and my car very dirty.Posted 1 year ago # -
All moved. Old house all settled. New church found. Kids organised to start school on Thursday, just need to take up school pants and buy one lunchbox - lost in the move.
We had our first fire the night before last. Have to get DH onto splitting some more wood and organising another load of firewood before the price goes up at the start of winter. ANd someone to slash the paddocks - we have a little bit of a mouse problem, but so does everyone else in the area.
I can't get over how much stuff we brought with us. We are still unpacking, and doing a bit more of a cull as we go. I thought I was more uncluttered than this, but then I discovered that DH had packed all the donation boxes too! Lucky our local church is having a fete with a white elephant stall, so alot of stuff will be going there.
We are getting a little bit stir crazy with living in such close quarters, and the boys are very rowdy - I'm waiting for the first bit of wall damamge. I keep directing them outside. They are not particularly quiet kids, can be when they have to be (church), just not at home.Posted 1 year ago # -
i have a similar love-hate thing with the rain.
it is beautiful and it is terrible.sounds like your family is settling in really well....i reckon your boys will adore the new lifestyle.
we went through the exact same learning curve with slashing paddocks, rainwater tanks, organising firewood.
wait until your water pump acts up!
that is a problem that we never knew even existed before moving to the countryside!
but if there is a power cut, you will be a lot less disrupted than if you were in the burbs.Posted 1 year ago # -
I am excited for you and your family. Best of luck!
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