The fun begins - March 2011

Well, we have moved into our new home, all the furniture and precious belongings have arrived, and just about everything has a place, Even if it is under the stairs, in a big box.Our new home is part 1850 Welsh stone and slate cottage and part 1980 extension, with five wonderful acres of land. We have found so many nooks and crannies in all the house and outbuildings Luckily we have also inherited a pretty well laid out 1/2 acre veggie garden. Its a little daunting as the very friendly neighbours keep telling us what wonderful produce came from this garden, we have a lot to live up too !
We spent the past weekend re stacking the wood pile, learning to light the wood burner in the lounge with out filling the lounge with smoke, and having a huge bonfire ( outside), to help get rid of some of the unrecognisable, unsalvagable " stuff 2 we have found. We also managed to shoe horn in five visitors, plenty of laughter, and a visit to see Hetty and Hebe, the pregnant pygmy goats on a friends small holding.
Today its back to hard work, so that involved a lot of ball throwing for Ruby ( my 18 month old ball mad King Charles cavalier spaniel ) walking the property twice to decide what sort of fencing needs to go where, and how many new fence posts and gate we will need. David will put together all the info tomorrow, them we will start getting a few quotes to have the work done. I suspect that after the sums are done, the boxes  in the under stairs cupboard will have to move over a bit, so we can have a lie down in the dark to get over the bill.
For a little light entertainment we have started preparing seed trays and propagators, and planting them up.It will be interesting to see how many of the little blighters sprout. david has gone out to the garden to  let all the bugs know that with a bit of luck we will soon be providing them with dinner !David is in charge of pototoes ( 7 kg of seed pototoes chitting in the conservatory), peas and beans, and Im having a go at the rest, for now thats confined to tomatoes, onions, shallots, radishes and lettuce. Let the challenge begin.
Tomorrow I plan to order the hen house, and maybe clean the green house out. A little baking might be called for, so i might be having a go at Aniseed rusks, in my Rayburn. I have to keep a list of inside things to do just in case it rains a lot, or I get a little lazy. Bottom of the to do list is cleaning , possibly repaintins and repacking the cave of a cupboard in the bathroom. I have also established from an authority on the matter that making a list does constitute a job, so theres always on thing I can tick off on my to do list....
Well think its time for me to head for bed for a spot of beauty sleep, might be a long while before I am allowed to wake up again.