Well, time for an update...
New house is in the country, just over an hour out of the city. We came up and camped in the new house on settlement night...much to the shock of the real estate agent who thought we were joking! I mean, it DOES need some work, and the plumbing is dodgy but works, the bathroom has all the pipes exposed and the toilet is akin to sitting in an old shed...
Any way, we stay and a friend loaded up the truck saturday night and delivered our furniture sunday morning, It was not a rest saturday though as the place resembled a rubbish tip. Literaly. The house was filthy and took days to even make habitable and the sheds were FULL of household waste and general rubbish. Took four days to move all the crap to a central location so i can despose of it later.
It took a further 6 trips with a truck and ute with trailer to move all my shed stuff! Had to dismantle my hotrod project into pieces to get it out a door way and onto a trailer as i was building it inside a bbq enclosure! all up i had 7 cars plus tools and work benches etc to move. Another 3 days just setting up the workshop so i can start earning next week.
On one trip the poor old hearse collapsed a rear wheel bearing and we had to hobble into town with it screaching and the brake shoes on fire! It was smoking like a massive dragstrip burnout! That took a day to fix. The amazing thing was that 2 kilometres away was a parts shop that had a set of brake shoes and bearing for a 1964 american car! I was blown away, i mean, half the time we cant get parts for our own holden brands and here was a store with them on the shelf. Normally a two day wait ordering parts from specialists.
We had to switch to wireless internet and had mountains of frustration with getting that set up. We plugged in the computer and at least it worked... for a little while then it started to go all wierd! Plugged in the TV, dvd and sound system and they too would not work and behaved strange. Turns out there is only one power point in the kitchen that can run any appliance without massive voltage loss! So now we run the computers OR the tv from an extension lead from the kitchen until we can save enough for an electrician to come have a look!
The place is 3 acres, two being paddock and one being house block...so we have at least 1 acre of 4 foot high weeds and grass to clear before it's snake time!
on top of that, trying to work enough to keep the bills paid... Its been a very exhausting two weeks!
On the good side, we now have a mortgage that is lower than most suburban rents, we will own it outright in 15 years, we will have enough money over the next 3 years to renovate and no neighbours! I can make as much noise as i want!
The house has 4 fire places, and the best is luckily in the lounge. Really big rooms (but we still managed to fill them) and for the first time my wife has a dedicated art studio, and my darling daughter can have her own room decorated anyway she wants that i hope will become her second home as she gets older.
so now we have to get used to chopping fire wood every night and plan trips to the nearest town with lists... gone are the days of a 5 minute pop into the local hardware store! here they close early on the weekends for sport! WTF! still, i think we will like becoming country bumkins. Heard some noises on the other side of the house and found a farmer parked his tractor in the yard while fixing a flat tyre! introduced ourselves, he gave me a beer from the ute and was on his way! he's local so i better buy him a beer at the local soon i guess.
life is getting back to 'normal?' as we trip over still packed boxes and search for things we cant find!
cheers everybody!
lifes great!
Oz