Property

Just a quicky to say that our offer has finally been accepted, so now we have to sell this place...fingers crossed.

Connor's Birthday, finding a new "Littlebush"

Well, seems blogging is becoming more erratic, that is partly due to being very busy trying to find a new farmlett.. Hopefully the search is over, we went to look at a place on Thursday, and by Saturday we had an offer on it. The property is about 23 minutes north of Masterton, in the middle of a forest!  There is an 1900's house, various outbuildings, including a sleep-out. The house is a 4 bedroom two storey one.  On the land is a wool shed, 2 bay implement shed, cattle yards, 2 sets of sheep yards, a few dams, and there is 55 acres of land.  Huge is the best description when compared to Littlebush.  We looked around about 2/3rds of it as the last 1/3 was covered in native bush.  If you want to have a peek, it's here . If they accept our offer, we'll have to start making moves on getting this place sold, we've already got 1 offer, but it was shy by 5K.
On the other things front, Connor is now 1, his birthday was last Monday, we didn't do anything as we are going to celebrate it on Saturday 31st as Amy will be back from Japan, and celebrate we are..we're putting a hogget on a spit for the occasion, we figured with my family, Steph's family, friends, and antenatal people, there would be a few to feed, and the easiest way to feed the masses is a spit roast, we've already got the hogget lined up.
Oh, Connor's still not walking, and we're in no hurry for it either!

This week I had off due to being over stressed, so on Friday, I decided to go for a hunt down in the ranges, only a day hike, but I went 5.2kms up a stream bed, and when I finally sat down for lunch, I instantly saw a herd of goats!, I took a shot at the buck as he had good horns and a fantastic hide, missed, tried again, and again, at which point the rifle during the recoil hit my head with the scope..nice little cut above my eye. The forth shot was aimed at a young kid, and he promptly dropped as it went through liver, lungs and spine.  I did take another shot at the billy when he was 100m or so up a scree slope, hoping that if the shot connected, he would come tumbling down, he dropped, but didn't come down the slope. I tried getting up there, but it wasn't too safe so I chickened out.

Speaking of chicken, we've got chicken for tea. Now this is a rariety, we don't eat chicken because of the crap that is feed to chooks for the supermarket, but the hens we bought a few months ago, 3 of the 4 have turned into roosters, which means they turn into chicken roasts...and I culled one this afternoon, so we've got him for tea.

Anyway, thats enough for now..

I'll update this as soon as I know more about the other place.

Sutff

Well, yesterday we got rid of the two pigs, they had become escape artists, jumping gates, lifting gates off hinges, barging through backs of sheds etc....and they were rooting up the lawn. Not a good look when trying to sell the house.
The house is now on the net ready for selling .

We've gone and seen a builder company regarding building a house, and hopefully next Friday we get our first ballpark figure before we start getting down to the nitty gritty design. It's quite exciting, but still, this place needs to sell, and there are many other things to consider.