the massive, exciting & wonderful next chapter in our life & lifestyle . . .

 Greetings all,

Super exciting news . . . we bought a farm!! It's been a 20 year dream with my husband & only possible since he returned from his fifth deployment. We have lived all over Australia, deciding to settle in Canberra, a military & public service national capital city, surrounded by farmland.

Our must-have list was . . . 45 minutes from the CBD, cleared land, no dwelling, 100 acres & sobering things like 'affordable'. During our search, issues like . . . fencing/ rainfall/ school buses became important; power/ telephone/ sewerage did not - as we desire to be self sufficient. Finally we found the right property & much larger!!

This has given us the exciting potential of raising livestock, building a straw bale homestead & planting orchards. Could not be happier. Stay tuned for our exciting plans, we will build our home next year.  All the home building information will take place at my other blog, which has been waiting for this moment . . . b u i l d Z i l l a.  Love Posie

a wonderful day in the country

Greetings all,

What a glorious Winter day in the country.  

 We're looking for a neat farm block for our active, animal loving family.

 So we headed to Braidwood (beyond our outer limit from the Canberra CBD) & worked our way back, looking at properties, to the Federal Highway.  Clocked up 300km between morning tea & lunch!!

 Wide open spaces.

 Run down wool sheds & barns.

 Long dirt roads - where my husband & i start to wonder if this is someone's private driveway??  

 Just cruising the Great Dividing Range.

 When a real estate agent asks "are you Ok with wind farms - they might be visible from the property" they actually should just say "this property is next door to a wind farm!!"

So we're back on the search, for the elusive 100 acres, more or less, with a small list of dreamy requirements like . . . a sealed road with good access for builders, cleared with privacy & some bush, friendly council, water/ dam, in our budget!!  All i can say is that we are very patient.  Love Posie