Well we ordered our stove and ovens, they should be ready to pick up in a couple of days.
We're getting an electric cooktop and then a vertical double oven to go alongside. We have an arch shaped enclave in the wall that it will go in. One of the guys in town is going to take the old stove out and remove the old hotwater system out of the roof. While he was up there the other day, he found that the roof had been nailed down instead of using galvanised teck screws. If he hadn't noticed this then in a couple of years the roof would have rusted because of the nails, then the roof would have needed replacing.
George is still doing the reticulation, well fixing up the mess that's been left anyway. We've also got a gardener who is going to come in and help with the property. She knows fruit trees as well which is great.
Hopefully soon we might get those chooks I want. Chookhouse is needed first. Cause there are a few whiteant mounds around, we're going to get it built in mainly steel. We have a heap that was left lying around here so we're going to use that for the base and then wood for the top.
How exciting. We haven't had a stove or oven in over twelve months now. The old wood stove in the house doesn't work at all, other than to heat up. The oven is totally broken so I've been using an electric frypan and microwave to do all our cooking. It hasn't been too bad, after all I've made cakes and bikkies in the frypan but to have a stove has been a dream.
Today a woman came over who's name is Janet. She's going to help with gardening and the fruit trees as we don't know anything about them. It turns out her brother may be able to take the old stove out, plus the old hot water system in the ceiling and re-brick the roof for us. He may also be able to build the shelf that the stove will sit on. Then all we need is the electrician to put in the stove and double wall oven.
It looks like we could be getting him to help build a chook house too. The lady on two properties over from us has some Silver and Gold Wyandottes which she may let us buy.
Pierce is enjoying his schooling and amazingly is learning stuff I'm teaching him! Who would have thought???LOLOL ACE is great!
He helped me pick the grapes tonight. Jess (our larger dog) loves to eat them so we have to make sure she can't reach them. If she eats them they can actually kill a dog. Hasn't hurt her yet, but better to be on the safe side. She also loves to eat mandarines. Now if only I can get Pierce to eat them!
Our sprouts are almost ready to eat too. Yum. I love salads so the sprouts will go good on them.
The Lord answers prayers all in his time.
I love our life here. We moved to Dwellingup just over a year ago. There were times during the first eight months that I thought we were moving back to the city. The people we were trying to buy off made things so hard for us, simply because they got greedy and wanted more than the property was worth.
The sale went through in October last year and we named the property Lemon Gum Cottages.
There are two cottages on our 14 acres as well as the main house. We've had friends stay in the smaller cottage and we're hoping to rent both out as soon as we can get our act together and fix the larger one up.
We've also got fruit trees, grape vines and are hoping to get chickens and perhaps a couple of miniature cows soon. Pierce wants a miniature pot bellied pig but we'll see about that one...I'm not sure how it would go with our dogs!
Our son Pierce is homeschooled which we love, it gives us so much more time together, especially since we run two businesses from home. I'm also going back into private investigation soon so that will be a third. Combine that with trying to write professionally and it's no wonder I'm tired! But the Lord is good. Amen to that.
