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Saturday in the Making #3

What did you tick off your list today? Here on the Homestead we:

✓ Battened down the hatches by replacing a few broken fastenings. That will hopefully stop the wind making super-scary sounds in the night.

✓ Repotted the fig and moved it to a more fig-friendly location

✓ Replanted the “indoor tree” (possibly also a fig) in the now vacant outdoor fig pot. Thought I had a photo but no.

✓ Got the first coat onto one of the bedheads and finished sanding the other.

✓ Headed out to the City Campus to tidy the front verge after another bout of footoath digging/equipment storage by simeone connected with next door’s build. Oh, and embarked on the first of a number (if this is like any other City Campus sleepover) jog-trots round the block with the Homestead Hounds

It doesn’t look much written down but it neatly filled our Saturday in the Making.

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This story began as a family's fumbling attempt to live The Good Life in suburbia; the awesome suburb of New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand to be exact. Our wonderful neighbours tolerated our hair brained schemes as yet more lawn was turned into garden and more animals were introduced until there was just no more room left and there was nothing else for it... we moved to the country. So, here we now are: an extended family of humans, cats, ducks, chickens, and goats trying to step as lightly as possible on this gorgeous planet while still enjoying the internet and good television. We've got 5 acres of land to play with, a whole new township to meet, and neighbours who do this sort of thing for a living...what could go wrong? You want a list?! This lifestyle of ours isn't always pretty; There's meteoric highs and the most cataclysmic of lows. Our intent is to share all these - our idiotic mistakes, glorious triumphs, outcomes both lucky and unlucky; and those thigh slapping, tear spurting, belly laughing moments that often follow all of the above - through this blog and our Facebook page www.facebook.com/unionhomestead. We reckon everyday is a school day and, if you're maybe pondering having a go at this lifestyle yourself, you will always be able to call up this blog and say with ultimate conviction, "At least we're not as bad as them."

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  1. It’s still Friday for me…para transit to the gym for a session and home again. Coffee and a book. Bill paying. Laundry. Fair amount of lollygagging over YouTube. Birthday dinner preparations for the youngest among us…this is the actual day, but like royalty, the official celebration is at a later date. A bit of jigsaw puzzling and ending the day with homegrown fennel tea and a book. Not nearly as productive as yours, but to be fair, it is winter here, damp and chilly and muddy outside.

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  3. I was not as busy as others: early morning walk with Chilli, organising myself out the door by 11.00am to pick up a friend for a drive to Bendigo where we lunched at the pub across the road from the Capital Theatre. The Capital Theatre was our ultimate destination as we attended a concert of classical music as part of the Bendigo Chamber Music Festival. Well satisfied with our musical experience, we returned to Castlemaine. On arriving home, I took myself off for a well deserved nap.

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