Solar

 The batteries for our solar system arrived today.  The plan was for the driver to ring us an hour before he arrived so we could get Bob from down the road to bring the 'forklift', but no, the delivery guy rang us from 10 minutes down the road. Mad panic "ring Bob", his wife answered she said she would track him down,. So in comes this massive semi, the driver got out and slid the side panels across, and there all on their lonesome were our two boxes of batteries!! We were the last delivery for the day, he left Melbourne at 6am and by the time he had done the deliveries it was 4pm,(we are 5 hours from Melb)...I dont why anyone should be expected to drive all day. Anyway all was good he was happy, we were happy...........oh oh wheres Bob? These batteries are 140kg each with four in each box, come on Bob!

No need to worry, here he comes, chug chug up the road.  Cracked a can of beer and got stuck into the job. Now as you know I'm a/was city girl I was expecting Bob to drive down in a little truck with a fork lift on the back. Ha Ha dumb me duh!...this is what a forklift looks like in the country?....I thought it was a tractor!. Never mind I will know next time...Good on ya Bob your a legend and thank-you.

Plastic fantastic? Um no!

I couldnt resist these two desk chairs on our trip to the tip shop. Five bux for the pair, yay, so i tried them both out , they do the up and down thing, and the wheels are fine. Said to self 'I can recover that, I've just done the kitchen chairs, this should be easy peasy".  I had the perfect fabric in my stash to cover both of them and I had it all worked out! So I unscrewed the pink one and ...of course the pink fabric is 'welded' to the plastic.....great! not!  But all is not lost will try and sew a cover for all of the backrest and hope the seat comes off easily, and can be done like the kitchen chairs...it doesnt really matter what they look like underneath because I'm the only one who will know ha ha! Wish me luck!

10,9,8..the countdown is on!

All going smoothly with the massive paper trail that comes with building a new home.  The plans have been lodged with the council...hopefully all goes well with that too...and we stay on schedule with the delivery of our house, which should be mid-feb.....in the mean time I've been busy making a few items for the new digs...have decided to go as retro as I can without being too tacky lol I'm planning on aqua and brown colors so this week I recovered the kitchen chairs and finally finished the rag rug.

                                                          before...Ugly!

I bought this piece from the oppy for $1.00 its a piece of thick retro cotton, the job didnt take too long, bit dodgy on the underside....but secure, i used plenty of staples.

 I had three attempts at getting the tension of the rag rug right.  First attempt, too tight! I made my self a hat to wear in a rice paddy...lol. 2nd attempt too sloppy....

                                        Almost done, i dont have a picture of it complete (flat batteries)...I used tshirts and track pants, all from my local oppy and all $1.00 each. 15 altogether.....It is the size of a 4 seater round table.  Love It!  
Next post fingers crossed will be photos of the arrival of the new house!!!!!                

Oh My!!!

So I was out on the back porch, sweeping, not paying attention, obviously! Finished sweeping, Hippy man came bolting  inside ...and said "snake" "back porch".

with a look of sheer terror!!  Yeh right did he think i was going to run out there, grab a shovel and save us...I dont think so!! So Hippy Man high tailed it out the back, and i went to lock the three dogs in the front porch. By the time out got out the back Hippy man had the shovel and was heading towards "the serpent". I stood frozen until our oldest dog Joffy came bolting over...then all hell broke loose, little joffy was trying to get the snake, which made things worse because, the snake was going ballistic. Ive never seen a snake in the wild let alone one this big Yuk...yes i do love nature and animals but this was way over the top for me!!  I'll just say that Hippy man saved the day, even though he was cacking it, and i never want to see one of them again, it still makes me shudder when I think of it.  Did manage to get a photo of Hippy man with the serpent... it was over 6ft tall!
Foot note to Mother Nature: sorry for taking one of your creatures, but if you didnt make him poisonous he would"ve lived to see another day and that is all.

Progress!!!

                                     Pulling down the chook pens,

a massive task in this heat!!!

Our new house is now starting to feel like a reality....chook pens have been removed and the chickens are now in their new home, which we have just finished building.  This picture is the site where our new home will be, we still have to clear a few trees.  We have paid our deposit, and purchased our off grid solar system....the first draft of the plans is being tweeked.....and our house is due to be delivered mid-february!!! The Hippy Farm is a happy place.

Our new babies

                                          Louie is our latest addition, hes an 8 month old border collie with a beautiful,
                                         placid nature and is very obedient and patient with our 6 week old little pup Fred.

 Heres the little mischief maker Fred, attacking a margarine container.

                                         Louie and Fred best buddies.

Spring has Sprung

Spring is in the air at the Hippy Farm, the days are slowly getting longer and the garden is coming back to life Yay. BUT we are still living in the dodgy house, waiting on the insurance company to come to the party, its a long pathetic story!! We are looking at re-building because our policy expired at the end of august and the insurance company will not renew it, BECAUSE some of the house is over 70yrs old(2 1/2 rooms out of 10)  and its in an unrepaired state (our claim has been approved, so what a coincidence, they dont want us anymore!!)...we are in negotiations with them!!! what a joke!!
Hope to have some good news soon, we are looking at our options and i will be posting lot of pics the building progress...when it starts lol...lucky we are both soooo patient.