So this is it! deposit down.
Now to sell our house in Nelson, well finish the renovations then sell it. Slightly bitter sweet, we have lived in this house for the past eight years, unfinished but still a palace now it has walls and ceilings! The thing is Mal refuses to get anyone in to help (because he can do it all... i call it stubborn!) down side....time and the fact that we will need to consider buying shares in Band-aid with all the plasters Mal goes through each time he begins a project. Our plan is to have the house on the market by the end of January...wish us luck!

So why did we buy a farm?
It had been a dream of ours for quite sometime. One of those dreams you never think would happen but often discussed. We got courageous (that or we lost our marbles) two of our three children had left home which meant we had spare money. I had been driving our neighbourhood nuts with my DIY backyard (492sq metre) funny farm in the heart of Nelson CBD. With three chickens, Red, a Rhode Island Red (shes the boss) hasn't laid an egg in months, teaches the others to jump the fence, eat the grapes, destroy our vege garden, enter the house and even take on the dogs at meal time. She even managed to drop all her feathers last winter resulting in an upper respiratory infection requiring weekly antibiotic injections (she is now our most expensive chook) but we love her; she had provided us with eggs for years so it was the least we could do to thank her. The other two are brown shavers, jumpy simple things and prolific layers. Mal named them Drumstick and Teriyaki (teri for short) His way of looking tough, he thinks if you name them after food people will assume he eats them (Our last chook 'Syrup' he trained to sit on his shoulder...I say no more!) We have a bee hive, hired last year, we get 15kilos of guilt free honey every year and plenty of pollen  (I eat it regularly, very good for you). Then we have the three dogs, Snoop, 4, he is huge! we adopted him after visiting the SPCA we saw him after he recovered from a nasty head injury (the lump on his head remains), He looked so vulnerable, we couldn't leave without him. I would describe Snoop as 'the lights are on, but no ones home', not a day goes by where he doesn't make us smile. Then there is Milly a big grumpy Bull mastiff x, abused as a puppy resulting in her having fear aggression, basically she spends her time mouthing visitors ankles. She is Mal's dog, she mourns the loss of Mal everytime he goes to work. Last but certainly not least is Chilli, my baby xxx an 8 year old, whippet x staffy who I accidentally trained to bark at the word 'cat' resulting in pure mayhem as Snoop reacts to Chilli's barking, running full speed across the floor, racing outside to chase a supposed cat  (usually there is no cat in sight), to make it worse our neighbours name is Cat. Then there is Spooky the cat (she doesn't like the dogs) not sure why she is called spooky. She is gorgeous, spends most of her day wanting to be let out the backdoor only to then scratch at the front door to come in (this goes on all day).

Plum Tree Farm

Now you have met the animals we already have, wait until you hear about the ones I have on order for the farm!!!! stay tuned!!