Recent content by mikiz

So the settlement date came and went, and the house STILL isn't finished! I'm sure it is all part of a bigger plan but it's so frustrating. I wasted 3 weeks of leave waiting for the go ahead to travel and it never came so I'm back at work now. We ended up finding new electricians and plumbers...

@Baymule i have 2 Gypsy Cob geldings, they're such gorgeous boys. Mum is in charge of growing things and I will learn, I'm not much good at getting anything past the seedling stage! I can't wait to get home. The idea is to be as self sufficient as possible, the only things I want to be paying...

We have water tanks! Never thought I'd be this excited over water storage. The builders haven't sent me any photos of the house now the verandahs are done but you can see a little tiny part of the house on the corner of one of these photos. The septics are being done next week and then the...

Well after a small setback with trucks getting bogged and needing assistance to get everything into place, the house is on the block. The week leading up to the move saw sunny skies and dry weather, and everything was a go, until the 24 hrs beforehand they had a downpour and received 100mm of...

Well this update has been an even longer time coming since buying the property. I've persevered in my plan, a few relationships have come and gone in between, but I'm finally almost finished building my house! As I went with a modular construction, this is the house in the builder's yard, and...

According to this, Dutch have a better dressing percentage, could be a good addition to meat mutts breeding http://msucares.com/livestock/small_animal/slaughter.html

Horses are not the best money making machines, you'd be better off just purchasing a foal of the type and nature that you want to use for work, and if you feel the need to reproduce, just go and buy another one. Honestly it's not worth the time and effort of breeding just to create a "maybe"...

Is there any particular reason you want to breed these horses besides the fact that they're white?

So it's been a long wait for me to be able to add this to the forum, and almost didn't happen at all when the bank turned me down the first time. I live away so I won't be able to update a lot until I go down next but this is the beginning of Zwinter Acres! It's 40 acres just outside of a small...

Looks like some wacky form of bee-fruit!

I'm so sorry Sam, I hope you and he can come to terms on the whole animal situation, and I hope you won't give up your dreams and passion for anything. Big hugs and all my love to you :hugs:hugs:hugs

What happens if the bees decide they want to put eggs in the frames instead?

How beautiful! Congrats on the amazing deal you got!! Looks like they're settling in just fine.

Blazing Acres is a cool name! Especially since your hubby is a firefighter :D

Oh boo for the sprouts! I had like a bajillion little guava tree sprouts, they all got their first leaves and I planted some out into bigger pots and one by one they all dried up and died, even though they had plenty of water and sunlight! It's so rubbish when you get the little babies to sprout...