Shifting in

Lady Luck was still with us when we sold our home. It was originally one we had bought at mortgagee sale, a lovely big home with huge garage and workshop areas and plenty of room for the gardens and fruit trees I had planted. The new owners couldn't move in straight away, so we stayed an extra 10 days after the sale had been finalised. Which suited us fine. We had to get the big containers for all our gear on site at Fantail Farm and also had get the driveway put in and organise the pad for those and bus at the same time. Once again, Fortune smiled on us and the two completely different shipping and moving outfits rang us and said they could both shift the containers on and move the bus out on the same day. Now that was interesting...
Especially as one of the container trucks was driven by a very old friend of mine lol - He navigated that orchard as if it wasn't there, a fact for which we are both still thankful!
The first thing my workaholic husband did was paint both the bus and the bright orange containers. Not just for our own sense of trying to blend in well with the local environment, but also for the sake of those who had to travel past the sight on the main road.

While that was happening, we were also both out there and getting the land back up to scratch again. That meant spraying the blackberry with Tordon - a job neither of us liked, but at the end of the day, this is such a truly invasive plant out here that there simply is no other choice. We also had to dig up the dock, get rid of the small gorse bushes so kindly supplied by a neighbours out of control problem and in general, get rid of the knee high weeds along the fencelines. In addition, because we were mowing the paddocks, we had to go over every inch to remove any small rocks (thankfully, very few), broken wire (more than we liked) and any other bits of rubbish that was lying around. The upshot of all this was, that by the time summer arrived in earnest, Fantail Farm was looking very good indeed.