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Our First Working Bee.
A rare Sunday of no appointments, so today we popped on some work clothes, grabbed the garden gloves, mower, whipper-snipper and packed up our thermos, some coffee, a few munchies, some milk, and our cups, and stuck it all in the ute (whos name is Zane incase you’re wondering!) and headed out to ‘the Farm’ do a bit of a cleanup. We’ve had quite a bit of steady rain over the last few weeks, and we wanted to check out whether or not any of it was coming in under any of the door of the shed. While we have been away on holidays the grass has grown a lot, as…
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4000 Housing Ideas
Our shed (okay, so its not actually ours yet, but that’s irrelevant. Conceive, Believe, Receive!!) – anyway – on with the show! As I was saying….Our Shed used to be the machinery shed for the house that’s now on a separate block. Its a huge [to us] 7.5m x 9m colorbond shed, with 3 roller doors at the front, and an access door at the side. Inside is just one big open expanse, however a wobbly mezzanine of sorts has previously been put in for storage, which is about 2m x 2m. At the moment, the shed is about 1/3 full of ‘stuff‘ that belongs to the previous owners,…
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A Slow Crawl.
As you’ve read, it started back in about April, when we went and had a proper look at the block, did a whole lot of talking and working-out stuff, and some more talking – and then finally made an offer. We were nervous about making an offer, as we pretty much had no savings left from the last few years of having had various kids come back home – so we didn’t want to make an offer, then find out we couldn’t get a loan! It would have been rather embarrassing, especially for a real estate agent, and when the sellers are ‘well known about town’ types… 😐 Anyways –…
