We completed swimming lessons in feb/march, it is amazing what swimming for an hour a day does for children, even after only 2 weeks she has improved 10 fold. There are some pics somewhere but finding them would be difficult.
She wants to choose 8 endangered animals to do some writing and researching about. I want to get my vegie patch established and ready for planting so she can have a space to learn to grow and look after her own food. I also what to set up a small weather station, so she can record rainfall. wind direction and air temperature.
One day everything will start falling into place.
March 19, 2010
February 8, 2010
It's Been a while
So it has been quite a while since I was here and I really need to work on starting up a recording system.
Life has been a bit crazy round here. On the 18th of December we shipped out of the city and headed for 30 acres of lush bush and pasture. Ok, ok, more like 15 acres of bush and 15 acres of hilly cleared land that needs work!
We have a bigger house that is not really crash hot but livable and in the long term we plan to have a new home built. What a learning curve that will be.
So xmas came and went the children had a ball and now can't wait for their birthdays.
We have a new puppy dog, named Chunks, because he threw up on Kurt on the way home from the pet shop. There are 5 turkeys, one has 3 babies. a rooster, 2-3 hens (unsure about one). Somewhere out there there is a lone sheep and goat.
There are a few drakes somewhere too but they seem to stay well away from the house.
3 Dams up in the bush and a nice big water tank store our water, a combustion stove in the kitchen heats the house and the water and also cooks the dinner!
So much work to be done and a massive life journey for everyone involved.
Today we have contacted another home educating mum near us and arranged HEA membership so we will start going to the group meets. Then Ishtar did some art work decorating butterflies and flowers that her nan bought her. While Konrad did some drawing. Next wednesday, heading to the beach for the day. Then Ishtar is thrilled with the idea of going swimming and can't wait to join the group at the pool for 2 whole weeks worth of swimming.
I on the other hand still have boxes here everywhere that are not getting sorted out fast. with a month left to do it,so our housewarming festival is not a disaster.
Life has been a bit crazy round here. On the 18th of December we shipped out of the city and headed for 30 acres of lush bush and pasture. Ok, ok, more like 15 acres of bush and 15 acres of hilly cleared land that needs work!
We have a bigger house that is not really crash hot but livable and in the long term we plan to have a new home built. What a learning curve that will be.
So xmas came and went the children had a ball and now can't wait for their birthdays.
We have a new puppy dog, named Chunks, because he threw up on Kurt on the way home from the pet shop. There are 5 turkeys, one has 3 babies. a rooster, 2-3 hens (unsure about one). Somewhere out there there is a lone sheep and goat.
There are a few drakes somewhere too but they seem to stay well away from the house.
3 Dams up in the bush and a nice big water tank store our water, a combustion stove in the kitchen heats the house and the water and also cooks the dinner!
So much work to be done and a massive life journey for everyone involved.
Today we have contacted another home educating mum near us and arranged HEA membership so we will start going to the group meets. Then Ishtar did some art work decorating butterflies and flowers that her nan bought her. While Konrad did some drawing. Next wednesday, heading to the beach for the day. Then Ishtar is thrilled with the idea of going swimming and can't wait to join the group at the pool for 2 whole weeks worth of swimming.
I on the other hand still have boxes here everywhere that are not getting sorted out fast. with a month left to do it,so our housewarming festival is not a disaster.
November 18, 2009
House is on it's way
So there where more hiccups and more solutions and everything is done, short of signing the loan contracts. We will be moving house before christmas with any sort of luck, the kids will have a wonderful christmas at our new house. We will be thrilled and everything will fall into place.
Going to adelaide for the National Joyous Birth festival on the weekend. Staying for 10 days with my sister and taking the sproglets to the Monarto Zoo.
What a wonderful thing to do, sorta dreading the plane trips tho.
Going to adelaide for the National Joyous Birth festival on the weekend. Staying for 10 days with my sister and taking the sproglets to the Monarto Zoo.
What a wonderful thing to do, sorta dreading the plane trips tho.
Heading To Adelaide
So as the title says we are heading to Adelaide for a 10 day holiday on Friday morning, We will be staying with my sister, meeting lots of new people and visiting the Monarto Zoo, that is all I have planned for now!
I am sure there will be loads more to do.
We will be moving house sometime between coming back from adelaide (on the 30th november) and christmas. Hopefully sooner rather than later!
I will see you all on the other side of our holiday.
I am sure there will be loads more to do.
We will be moving house sometime between coming back from adelaide (on the 30th november) and christmas. Hopefully sooner rather than later!
I will see you all on the other side of our holiday.
November 6, 2009
Bout time
Well I guess I better up date here, and while JB is down what better time to do it?
We are in the process of doing 6 different things that are required for us to get a homeloan/investment loan approval by the bank so we can have our cake and eat it too... well until we figure out if it will just all work out or if it will all be too much for us LOL.
Unfortunately a requirment of the bank is that we have a signed tenancy agreement to get our loan, how do you let out a house that you are living in? and how do you make a date to let out the house if you don't know when you will be moving out of it, because that is based on when the settlement take splace and the settlement can't take place until the loan is approved and financed!
Then we need a completion certificate for the house we are in to complete the reno's which need more work done to them than we originally thought needed to be done so that is in the process of being done too!!
The house is on the market to sell but we can only get the loan based on rental income, so finding someone willing to rent a house that is on the market might be interesting.
Um that'll do for now provided everything goes to plan we will be in the new house before xmas and we will have a tennent here to help us out too :)
We are in the process of doing 6 different things that are required for us to get a homeloan/investment loan approval by the bank so we can have our cake and eat it too... well until we figure out if it will just all work out or if it will all be too much for us LOL.
Unfortunately a requirment of the bank is that we have a signed tenancy agreement to get our loan, how do you let out a house that you are living in? and how do you make a date to let out the house if you don't know when you will be moving out of it, because that is based on when the settlement take splace and the settlement can't take place until the loan is approved and financed!
Then we need a completion certificate for the house we are in to complete the reno's which need more work done to them than we originally thought needed to be done so that is in the process of being done too!!
The house is on the market to sell but we can only get the loan based on rental income, so finding someone willing to rent a house that is on the market might be interesting.
Um that'll do for now provided everything goes to plan we will be in the new house before xmas and we will have a tennent here to help us out too :)
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