Recently, I read a blog post written by Leslie who blogs at Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After titled The Why Behind Creating Seasonal Bucket Lists. I f you click on the previous link, you can read all about why Leslie thinks a seasonal bucket list is a good idea. Leslie was actually […]
Last Week in Photos
The week just gone was all about the rain. We had the heaviest rain here, that we’ve had in a long while. This makes me feel a bit more positive about the garden. Usually at the end of summer, I’m feeling a bit sad and wondering if the battle is worth it. Not so this […]
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Enacting Our Fire Plan: Code Red Day
Code Red Day What a day we had! Last week, I posted about my thoughts on the need to make a fire plan. We hadn’t actually made the plan, but we were thinking very seriously about how we would do it, the decisions to be made, and what we would include. We knew that we […]
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How Prepared Are You For Fire?
Summer is still one week away and already Australia has faced huge fire challenges. Over the past weeks, there have been fires burning across the country. The east coast of Australia, in particular, has seen dreadful fires with over 150 houses destroyed and lives lost. We live in a very high fire danger area, surrounded […]
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Spring Colour in the Garden
For today, just a post of photos. As I put this post together, today is day 58 of spring. A spring that I had been long looking forward to,after experiencing a very brutal winter. At last, now there is sunshine and warmth, I’m enjoying every moment I can take, to get out into the garden. […]
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Life On A Dirt Road & Off The Grid – October
I Off the grid The days are getting warmer and longer which is good news for the ‘off the grid’ lifestyle. There is now enough sunshine and solar power to charge the batteries for later use. It’s quite rare now that we use the generator. We could now use more electrical appliances in the house, […]
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Life On A Dirt Road and Off The Grid – September
September – Spring at Last Finally, spring is here. Yay! Never have I been so happy to see the end of winter. We are having typical Central Victorian spring weather here – a little bit of everything. But of course, as usual not quite enough rain. The extra sunshine we are getting most days, means […]
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Life On a Dirt Road & Off The Grid – August
August Update FInally, winter is over. It has been long, cold, frosty and hard to bear this year. From now, we will start to get a few hours of sunshine most days, which will enable us to top up the solar batteries, and also gives us hope that the cold weather is disappearing. We use the […]
