Welcome to our new home - Scribbly Gums

Hi there everyone we have a new home site - Scribbly Gums - it is 100 acres of natural gum forest in Lower Boro and we (especially me) are so delighted I am finding it hard to concentrate!!!!

So instead of being really painful here are the details:
100 acreas of gum forest - especially scribbly gums which I love....mmmmm a pottery line called "Scribbly Gums' is coming to mind as I do this......
3 dams
Lots and lots of wildlife
Sites for studios, sheds and a wonderful home - my imagination is going a bit wild
And a site for a guest house so friends and family can vist

So here are the photos.....

This is the driveway into the property most of the trees are scribbly gums .....

Main drive into the property


This is just like a parkland and there is a far amount of fallen timber that we will be able to have wood fires for ambience and kilns - we have so much


The cleared area near where we might put the vege patch -
the yellow ford,
which is used by the owner of the property (to look around),
and his son (to do wheelies on the grass)
will be removed before we take full ownership


A bit more of the cleared areas - with black wattle and gums


The 3rd dam near where the vege garden and house will be located.....
a few wombat burrows in the side... it is the lowest of the three dams on Scribbly Gums


The property is 90% wooded and just lovely!


We thought this was great - a wombat burrow in a termites nest....
warm in winter, cool in summer ....... clever wombat!

So today we have cleared some of the ivy in Phils place in Watson which should go on the market in a few weeks.....

Jessica, Jason and Matt are all in Nowra at a party tonight ....

Phil and I are having a glass of something - me Chardy - Phil Coopers and celebrating that our offer for Scribbly Gums has been accepted and then will do something about dinner!

Dad is recuperating from his pacemaker operation and is fine today apart from a nasty laceration on his forearm which I dressed today. Mum is wonderful too and I am going to take her shopping in a couple of weeks with the fantastic plastic to buy some winter clothes.....

I am so excited with our new property I will be boring now if I continue.....

Aussie bush
Aussie rain
Aussie smells
Nothing is the same
....but Paradise

love you all..... Carol

Welcome to the Weekend

It has been a thoroughly Autumn Day today - a bit rainy, cool adn grey skies.... however it is hard to dampen my enthusiasm as we have looked at the property in Lower Boro and it seems pretty perfect to me.....

Phil and I feel pretty much the same - there is heaps of bush land - great amounts of scribbly gums, black wattles and stringy bark on 100 acreas. Lots of wildlife especially wombats and kangaroos and birdlife - heaps of chuffs, rosellas and finches. It is around 1 hour 15 mins to Canberra only 11ks on a dirt road the rest is bitumen.

Because it also has cleared spaces for buildings and flat areas for vege patches - if it works out it will be wonderful. So now we are going to investigate further as to building permits and other things like phone lines ...... but it is sounding pretty great at the moment.

Here is the link to Phils property on all homes http://www.allhomes.com.au/ah/ah0073?slid=-228945935

And here is the one we are interested in
http://www.allhomes.com.au/ah/ah0073?slid=167217828

Apart from that I don't have much news tonight ..... I made some cards yesterday and am now preparing for the retreat is a couple of weeks..... I have to pack enough but not too much - it is hard to figure out what I want to do and now pack too much - especially with flying there.

Work is so busy at the moment - I won't bore you with the details - but I feel rested after the last couple of days so I will be back to it on Monday!

Dad is going to get a pacemaker fitted on the 23rd April - next week - we are crossing our fingers that it all goes okay...... They do so many and it is under a local anaesthetic so that is good. Max and Edith are helping Mum out by offering to have her stay for a couple of days so she can visit Dad and have lots of company.

A quote for today (bit long so I apologise)

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt.
Leo Buscaglia

Love Carol

A quicke

No I am not being rude!!!!

Here is a link to the honeymooners blog - that is Jess and Jason..... they said that I could pop it on here .......

Blog - Jessica and Jason

It is great ot have them back

Love
Carol

Today we put Tarago on the Market

Okay so I know you are all aware that we were thinking what to do about Tarago - Phils 67 acre property on Taylor's Creek Road.....well it is now oficially on the market with Brady's Countywide and will be on the web this week!

We decided that we couldn't live there with the wind farm on all 3 sides and that our requirements are for a wooded block of land in commuteable distance from Canberra. We are looking in the Collector area, Currawang and Boro are also options so we will keep you posted. The property which we featured in the previous post is now under offer - but that is okay - when there are buildings on the property they are often not what you would ideally have anyway and we would have had to build a house.

So the criteria that we are looking for:

• Over 20 acres but on more than 100 acres (approx)
• Wooded areas
  
• Quiet
• Reasonable access to Canberra for commuting
• Able to be built on
• No need for paddocks, dams or bores as we won't run livestock on it anyway

I have taken part in a cybercrop this weekend so the following are my entries - I have been fortunate to win a few comps lately with my work so I hope I can do the same this time - if not - it was great fun anyway!!!!!

On the weekend of Jessica's wedding Phil and Ross went shopping
for supplies for the vegetarian extravaganza....
he came home with okra, celeraic, fennel and this item.....
A banana flower - I kid you not!
We had to google it in to find out what it was and how to cook it...
The night was fun and a great success but who would have thought???
We found one growing in the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne
And I had to take a photo!!


This is a layout challenge which I really liked
Jess and Matt are like black and white..... they are very different
But I am so proud of them both they are unique and wonderful
I am proud to be their Mum

US

The journalling says (with apologies to Troy Caser-Daley)
You are my daughter, before I held you in my arms I loved you.
Before I heard you breathe, I knew I would give my life for you.
And, no matter where you are, I will always carry you in my heart.


(sorry about the dicey scan..... but it was late when I finished)

Anyway that is about it - Dad has a pacemaker due to be fitted on the 23rd April - which will help his tiredness and he is now off medication which made him giddy and faint..... But all in all they are doing fine.

Jess and Jason have a blog about their honeymoon...... I will ask them if I can link it here so you can access it. Matt is 6 weeks away from his overseas adventure and Heidi is well and her horse Matrix is improving from a broken bone in his leg....... which has caused a bit of concern to her.

We are off to Cairns in a couple of weeks - me for a scrapbooking retreat with Scrap Therapy, and then Phil will join me later for 5 days of looking around the region...... then we will be up to see Ross and Sonya for the long weekend.

Stop looking for the answer, you are! Anon

Thanks for keeping in touch - post a comment and let me know you have visited..... I love to hear from you

Love
Carol

Sunday and everything is groovy!

Well it is Sunday and I have had a pretty full on week at work after my break. I took Friday off as I do every fortnight and that is just as well becasue I worked on Saturday - actually I participated in the Canberra 2020 Summit with 300 other people. I thought there would be opportunity to speak about current issues in particular relating to those with alcohol and other drug issues but it was much more strategic than that as we identified what we wanted Canberra to look like in 2020. Anyway this will go to inform the Australia 2020 Summit in a few weeks time. The main issues were sustainability, creative futures, health, safety, community inclusion and indigenous issues...... hopefully a worthwhile discussion.....

Also we have been looking into other rural properties to settle on and we found a good one in Collector about 55 mins away from Canberra. It has a Yurt on it, rests on 100 acres and is nicely wooded. There is a 6 car shed for studios and it overlooks a lovely valley area. Phil went out to see it yesterday and I hope to see it next weekend. Phil said that he would be happy on the property or in the area - so that is encouraging. We will also get a valuation on the Tarago place as we really have no idea what it is worth.

Bushland view

The 2 bedroom yurt

The 6 car shed - ?? studios

The honeymooners have returned after a lovely holiday and they look relaxed and happy. Jessica and Jason had a great time with lots of new scenery and particularly liked Halls Gap. Unfortunately they had a bit of rain on the trip, in a car it is annoying on a motorbike in is downright miserable. However they enjoyed the views and Jason worked his new SLR so they have great pics.

When Jess and Jason returned home they popped over on Friday and showed us their photos. I was able to give them an album which I have put together of the wedding to show people. It may be sometime until they can get the money together for the disk of the photographer - so in the meantime this will suffice.

Matt is busy buying things for his trip - it will be upon us sooner that we realise. Just 6 weeks to go. He purchased some Rockport walking shoes the other day and was a but surprised by the price - but they will make a difference to his comfort as he will need to do a fair amount of walking on pavement. Now he is thinkning about a camera I believe - and an ipod...... He will also produce a blog - which will be great - it will keep us in touch with what he is doing!

Mum and Dad are well - Dad is going in to hospital to have a pacemaker fitted - which will help his tiredness. And he is off the medication which was helping his heart, but making him dizzy. The had a wonderful time with Ross, Sonya and Riley up for the wedding..... I will pop in on Wednesday to see how they are.

The other thing I have done is to make some mini albums for the bridal attendants - Hamish, Anush and Heidi. So I thought you might like to see them. I made three and they are all different - I have great individual photos for all of them, plus Hamish's is more simple than the girls - no flowers and bling - more rubons and matting of the photos. These are Kaiser craftwood albums, papers, rubons, bling and flowers and they work really well! Plus they are great value!

Hamish - Bride's Dude cover - all album covers are pretty much the same

Anush's Album - inside first page - love the pic of Anush and white rubon

Anush's album - 4th page - flowers with shell buttons, organza ribbon

2 Albums - love this paper - Kaiserscrapbook - 'to have and to hold' range

Anush's Album - love that pic of Hamish - it is so him!
On the right is a photo of the procession through the gate at Nara Park

Detail of the cake and accessory page - each one is different this is Anush's
The scan is a bit pink - it doesn't do it justice

Hamish, Anush and Jessica went to school together and these are other school friends
from the left - Chris, Annie, Pete, Jess and Jason and Dave (Lucas)
I also love the photo on the right with the bridal party peeking around the tree

Heidi's album at the back and Anush's at the front

The last pages of Hamish's album - I thought he would like these photos.....
Hamish is in the right photo 3rd from the right

I am looking forward to the kids coming around for dinner tonight and catching up on all the news. Until next time - keep safe and happy.

Life is short - eat chocolate!!

Love Carol