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Friday, 3 June 2011

Some more about our cottage...

 The view to the north-east.


 Early morning visitor!


 A family of kangaroos just outside our back fence.


 Autumn colours.
 The grapefruit trees in the orchard.


 Our new strawberry patch.


 Our kitchen.

 Living room.
 Living room showing door to ktichen.


 Living room showing front door and door to main bedroom.



Backroom or 'sunroom'.  Back door is to the left and behind is the bathroom.

Thursday, 5 May 2011

Cottage Life

We are loving living in our little cottage!  We seem to be very busy since we moved here - packing, unpacking, cleaning, gardening, gardening for the landlord, and our usual tasks of working, cooking and cleaning up afterwards, etc.!  I'm growing muscles from all the physical work, but I'm enjoying it!  When we do relax, we just love sitting in front of the fire together.

Last week we went mushroom hunting on the property, as conditions were perfect for them.

 This is our mushroom haul!  Plenty more where that came from, but there's only so many mushrooms that two people can eat!


 We picked two types - a type of Boletus and Lactarius Salmonicolor - the brown one and the orange one! Yum-o!  No Bacon required with these!


Ulf enjoys driving the tractor!  He's a regular farm-boy now... :-)  We use it to dump garden clippings in a paddock for later burning.

We've laid down some mulch to start killing the grass and decomposing for our vegie patch in spring.  I'm keen to get into the orchard and see what life we can bring back into the fruit trees there, but it will have to wait until we have time, or winter, whichever comes first!  They're mostly apples, possibly some pears and maybe an old cherry tree in poor health.

Monday, 18 April 2011

Our Cottage

This is our new home! 

We've had to do a lot of cleaning inside and outside to get it ready for us, but we should be moved in by next weekend, or just after Easter.  We are very excited to be moving and are looking forward to decorating and making it our own.  The garden also has lots of potential, with an old vegie patch (overgrown) in the backyard and a few fruit trees in an orchard beside the cottage.

It has a fireplace in the lounge room, an outdoor toilet (only just outdoor!), two bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen.  The back room (closed in patio) is the 'sunroom' which faces north.  This will be our dining area and laundry!

We really feel that this move is the start of a new season for us and we're looking forward to whatever comes next in our lives together.