So close to end of the year...

Know what this means???

It just means we've been here for nearly a year already!

Where have the time gone to?

Oh well...

Guess it is a good time to make a list of what we've already done around here for the course of 10 months living here. It would help us seeing how far we've gone...

List of stuff we've done:

• Painted the inside of house (bedrooms, living rooms, bathroom, hallway and study)
• Fenced around the dam
• Fix Chook palace and fenced it (including installing a water tank)
  
• Brought in chooks
• Brought in a dog (Yep, Tassie turned one human year / 7 doggy years old a couple of weeks ago!)
• Fix up my own study
• Fix up all stuff in house
• Worked out how all the plumbings worked
• Hired a Permaculture Design Consultant for ideas and design of what we can do here
  
• Planted banana circle
• Planted vegie beds
• Harvested and pruned fruit trees
• Fix up both little and big sheds
• Weeding, mulching and planting around the citrus orchard
• Got involved with Central Coast LETS
• Got involved with ALS
  
• Studied an Introduction to Permaculture at Wyong TAFE
• Planning all the areas for the property
• Held many parties here already
• Hosted many sleep-overs
• Met all the neighbours (all lovely)
• Kids settled in the local school
• Kids joined Scouts (Jackie in Joeys and Nathan in Cubs)
• Nathan joined local cricket club
• Ari's in local child care and loves it
• Giving away surplus of our produce (fruits and eggs so far - chooks get the greens from vegie beds)

Not bad, eh?

At the moment, those are what is coming for 2009:

• Build pome and stone fruit orchard
  
• Fix up the dam, including the pump
• Build kids zone (including hideaway, swings, etc)
• Build Vegie Zone
• Build West side pergola for shading
• Breed chooks
• Fix up the front gardens
• Installing cricket net inside the shed (for boys)
• Fix up little office into art studio (for kids)
• Create more spots for plantings
• Fix up more on chook run

Still heaps to do, eh?

Till later!