Our New Life - Just the Begining

We made the transition from city life to the country in a few very swift moves, found the land, brought it, brought a small camper van filled it with as much as we could and left. This was to be our new begining.

Talk about going back to basics, we did. Put up one of those double garages you buy in kit form, brought a generator. Set the shed up as our living area and used the camper van to do the cooking. The generator was our power supply for light and TV. Drinking water we got from town, for washing which I did in a bucket, and showering if you could it that we got from the small creek which ran across our land.

We spent a summer and a winter there. There were days the temperature went as high as fifty nine degrees and in the winter it was well into the minus in the shed, some days there was still ice on the ground at two o'clock in the afternoon. We had to move into town half way through the next winter because we got so much rain that we couldn't get in or out of the place.

I really miss the peace and quite and all the birds. I spent hours watching all the different birds, we had finches, honey eater, parrots, ibis, blue wrens heep's of others. There was a family of blue wrens they were my favorites I called the the bipity bopity gang.

I will tell you about the antics of my bipity bopity gang and living in our shed on the block another day.