Anyone who has owned property and a home knows that sooner or later you need to choose a place to store materials and equipment, and if you delay the choice, the materials and equipment will choose a place of their own. It’s with this in mind that I consider the past 12 or 13 years that … Read more
Recently a friend of my offered my his Cabin, its located in Mount Mee, so if I accept I will need to dismantle, relocate and then rebuild it on my property. These are some photos I took of the property in 2014 when we first went up to look at his cabin. Cabin in Mount … Read more
We have an amazing and interesting swimming pool, here are a few photos of our pool, which was build in 1964 and has a significant amount of history. Catherine at the pool, I had the sun screen up overhead, but the pool is a chlorinated salt water pool which rusted out the steep posts … Read more
The Living room and TV Room are alongside one another and where we spend much of our family time however sometime you need to be able to get away from it all which is why I’m working on the Music Room (in Australia this is sometimes called the Rumpus Room). A recreation room (also known … Read more
We all have things to do each day and we feel that we must do what we know before we make our lists that we simply could not do everything on the list because we have a finite amount of time available each day (and we don’t know how many days we have left) and … Read more
“While you are making your plans, your children are growing up around you and begin to plan and dream their own futures”. – Roland M The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu This is what I wrote to myself in 1997. I received much of what I was hoping … Read more
This jam contains only three ingredients: strawberries, cane sugar and lemon juice. Done. Safety Warning: Don’t let the mixture boil over ! It creates one hell of a mess, not to mention on an open gas flame it may catch fire … and sugar has an awful lot of energy in it. ( my Mom … Read more
So where on earth are we going to live? if we bail out the rat race. For most people if we have been slaving away in the rat race we are looking for more, for bigger, or larger, for more space, more everything. We are most definitely not thinking about smaller, cheaper, or less. It … Read more
What does bailing out the rat race actually mean? It means different things to different people: I think that there is a continuum, with the polar opposites at each end being the crazy “I-have-no-time-to-live-my-life” at one end, and far at the other end, “I-have-all-the-time-in-the-world- life”. Our “more is better” rather than “better is better” commercial advertising … Read more
Less time, no time – The “earn more” or “spend less” dilemma Any small business owner knows that keeping costs low is critical to success. The same applies to bailing out of the rat race. It can’t be done unless costs are low, or income is high, of course both would be nice. However, there … Read more