Diary of a modern day pioneer couple

Upon James' brilliant idea that he was bored and needed to build something like a house, garage and stables, we sold our 100 acre farm between Goulburn and Marulan and bought a 200 acre farm between Gundaroo and Collector, just outside of Canberra. We are now living on the new farm in a caravan with no electricity, no sewerage and no running water! This is our story. James and Tracey

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Location: Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia

Monday, September 01, 2008

James is coming home



After eight years, James is coming home full time! He has finally been posted to Queanbeyan Fire Station. He was supposed to start there on 16 September, but they're sending him on a course to be rescue qualified and that will be about three weeks back in Sydney. But then he'll be home full time. He'll still be doing shift work, ie two days, two nights and four days off, but at least he'll be home in between times.


On the house front, we passed our framing inspection the other week. We've been working on getting the tin on the stable roof which we should have finished this week. We still need to render the outside so that the stable complex looks the same as the house and the garage but we'll work on getting into the house first.


Then it's back to working in the house again. The gyprock should be turning up this month so then we can start sheeting the internal walls and put in a ceiling.