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The Hippy Farm, N.S.W, Australia
I've now been living on the Hippy Farm for just over 12months....Ive had my initiation, mice, mozzies, spiders, snakes (only seen one) and flood...I'm now an official country bumpkin and I love it!!

Saturday, March 24, 2012

New Toy

All the vegetables seem to be ripening at the same time, we cant possible eat them all, so as well as giving them away, Ive been lucky enough to find one of these.
Straight from the groovy retro years this dehydrator is big enough to hold the veggies without me having to cut them into tiny pieces.
I had a few dehydrators to choose from, plastic ones that  have tiny little shelves, and start at $100.   She cost me $45 on ebay, I just lurveeee her.

Cherry tomatoes, just picked ready to go in for the first practice run.
Five hours later they were dried, sweet and chewy

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Waving not drowning


our front yard looked like a river

we werent going anywhere,we were flooded
in by the silent water that came during the night
Great NOt water up past tje skirting boards.,
In my dumb morning state, I threw towels down, hoping they would soak up the water....Yeh right!
The shiny water carpet in the sewing room
Splash splash to the back door and bathroom
The back porch this is where the water came in from
Not happy!!

 The river that we woke up to, at the front of the house...you can see the tiny bit of the road.

You may have heard about the floods in N.S.W, well the hippy farm copped a beaut last monday morning.
The strange thing is we didnt hear the water coming in the house. Hippy man woke at 5.30am and noticed something sparkling on the road.  Ugh is that water? Nope it was a raging river streaming down our street that had come down silently during the night from the flooded main street of our closest town 12 kms away. I raced out towards the kitchen to see what was going on and found myself ankle deep in the water that had come through the house...........while we were sleeping.  Well it sure was an initiation for me, ive never been in a flood before, he went into OMG mode, while i disconnected the power and 'tried' to lift as much as i could out of the affected rooms.  Hippy man was still OMGing outside so i called him in to grab the camera.  TSK TSk Men!!!
Pics coming soon, our connection is soooooooooooo slow!!!