Settling in..

The old farm house

As I said in the my first blog, we did not buy the farm because of the house. I actually think the previous owners sellotaped the house together when we came to view it, because when we moved in, we notice a couple of extra’s we didn’t know were there and not listed in the chattels. Like the indoor garden in the bedroom .

Or when you sat on the toilet, if you didn’t sit directly on the seat, you would end up seeing your arse without the use of a mirror. Speaking of mirrors, when you used the one on the bathroom, best you look quickly because before you knew it, only your eyebrows and forehead was mirror height. Yip, the bathroom floor was sinking. The shower… OMG… we both wondered how the hell 6 people showered in the shower!? No Bull…the shower literately dripped! You couldn’t wash your hair because it would take a week to get the shampoo out!

That said the kitchen bay window was perfect to capture the morning sun The fact that I was pot planting at 9.15 on a Monday morning (and I was not on leave) was something that took a while for me to comprehend. I worked from the age of 18 and now at 48, I didn’t have a 9-5 job. Having always been career woman, it never crossed my mind that I would never not have a full time job. One never really knows what lies ahead, what path you will walk until its time for you to walk it!

Having to renovate the almost 100 year old farm house, we needed other accommodation. One of the building on the farm was an old deer shed. We decided to fix the deer shed up and move into it while we renovated the farm house. I wanted to be on site because anyone who has every built a house knows, that if you are not there all the time, everything that can go wrong will, go wrong!

So we start the conversion of the old deer shed.

Yes, it needed a little work, but we thought with a little TLC, paint, a couple of windows and doors, we could make this home for a while. And so we did and on the 1^st of May 2017 we moved into our new little abode!