31/08/2017
Much has happened here on the farm over the last month or so but we’ve just been a bit s**t at telling you about it all.
From here on we vow to try our very hardest to keep you updated with what’s going down here in our little paradise, we will try and post pictures and videos and of cool stuff we get up to, awesome stuff and things we find and the amazing people who come and visit.
But, for now, here’s a run down of the most exciting things that have gone down in the last month-ish:
For a few weeks now we have had Crafter-noon on Wednesday afternoons. Crafter-noon is a spectacular lexeme coined by the delightful Polly. It means exactly what you expect, craft in the afternoon! For the last 5 or so weeks Wednesday afternoons have been dedicated to spending time making stuff. The first week was colouring in.
Colouring in has become a whole new movement recently, seeing all ages keeping within the lines in the name of mindfulness and a good nights sleep. Sharyn will joyfully agree that it sends you into a delightful nights sleep by engaging specific part of the brain conducive to getting your mind into the right zone for some pretty ace dreams.
Mel has been crafter-nooning with us since the start and she’s made a whole bunch of weird cool stuff, like mummified barbies painted gold, helped paint signs for the housewarming and pretty much supplied us with the vast majority of the crafty tools.
Wednesday afternoon Crafter-noon is open to anyone who wants to pop in after 2pm, bring craft supplies, food to share and, as it seems to be becoming a tradition, a bottle of bubbles would be fabulous.
We also had a housewarming, which went really rather well from what we can collectively remember. We carved out The Land of Wonder in a corner of the property near the house which is surrounded by heaps of trees so it’s pretty well protected from the crazy-town winds that had been blowing for the last few days, which meant we could have a fire. We found a big, old, partially rusted water tank in the trees so we pulled that out and built the fire inside giving extra protection from the wind and stopping small children/drunk adults getting too excited about sticks on fire.
We had so much help setting up the housewarming, all the crafter-nooners the week before came and helped us make signs, Robert and Julie made epic music happen, and Rob brought his coffee machine to treat the morning hangovers.
We do want to say a huge thank you to everyone who did anything that made the weekend lovely for everyone. All the washing up, rubbish picking (Kimberley did an amazing job of making that silly string her bitch), and plates carted up form The Land of Wonder was one less thing we didn’t have to do and could not be appreciated more. Thank you to everyone who brought us gifts too, we were very touched by the lovely things people gave us :)
The most recent update would have to the roosters.
Until a matter of days ago we had 4 roosters. Which is 3 too many. Sometimes, when everyone’s being nice to each other, the idea of keeping them doesn’t seem so bad then at about 5am we get a chorus of out of tune, out of time crowing and suddenly rooster for dinner sounds just great.
Freyah, our resident rooster, is doing ever so well not letting the 3 young upstarts get onto his ladies but the poor thing is getting a little stressed out so, one by one, we’re taking down the other three for him. If anyone wants a lovely Aracaan rooster, dead or alive, you are welcome to try and catch one :)
