Actually more than angry but it will do for on here.
There has been a hiccup in us buying the new farm, apparently the people who were selling didnt have written approval of all the partners and now we are in Limbo while they sort themselves out.
Its on hold while they sort their crap out, meanwhile we have sold our place, we have half our furniture stored on the farm down there, half at Paulas and Speedi's and we have the most of the farm equipment ready to load.
Jason has given them a week to sort it or the deal is off, we cannot be in limbo, if only for the girls schooling. Damn I am really pissed.
Meanwhile we have moved in with Paula and Speedi, while this gets sorted.
Wednesday 30 January 2013
Sunday 27 January 2013
We are moving
Sorry about not being on line for such a long time, I have actually sat down several times to write but always managed to get side tracked.
Well the farm has sold and we have sold my house in Christchurch as well, and we have purchased a larger farm down in mid Canterbury About 20 miles from Methven township.
It is quantum leap for us as the new farm is much bigger and it required a lot of heated negotiations between Jason and I but in the end he won and I must admit having spent a few days down there this week I do love the area.
We will home school the girls for a few years and when its time for them to spread their wings we will look at our options and where we are in life and then decide what to do, but that is a few years away yet.
We have been horrendously busy packing and taking stuff down south and today we are doing the really big house stuff. On the weekend we move the farm equipment and by next Wednesday we will be gone.
Bear and Mal have been a big help with packing and moving, Mal is living in Christchurch at the moment and he and Bear are talking about buying a small place in the city, god what a man cave that will end up. Bear got some money when we sold the gardens and he had some turn up from overseas, well Mal always has money; I do wonder about that man.
I suggested they buy the house next door to his ex which we saw was for sale, but that brought a pile of expletive deletives from Bear, so its a no go.
I think they are looking in the Marshalands-Shirley area which is a real nice area, especially with the mall there, silly thing is I could have sold them my place in the city if they had told me sooner, it was in the Burwood - Dallington area quite close to the mall as well.
Now the girls are doing really well and have spent most of the holidays horse riding, they are now near experts and much more proficient than their mother, well as for their dad; he is a quad bike man. I wont let the girls anywhere near the quad bikes, especially considering the number of accidents there have been recently throughout the country.
Well must go for now, will write soon, promise.
Oh by the way, I am pregnant again, we are hoping for better luck this time.
Anne
Well the farm has sold and we have sold my house in Christchurch as well, and we have purchased a larger farm down in mid Canterbury About 20 miles from Methven township.
It is quantum leap for us as the new farm is much bigger and it required a lot of heated negotiations between Jason and I but in the end he won and I must admit having spent a few days down there this week I do love the area.
We will home school the girls for a few years and when its time for them to spread their wings we will look at our options and where we are in life and then decide what to do, but that is a few years away yet.
We have been horrendously busy packing and taking stuff down south and today we are doing the really big house stuff. On the weekend we move the farm equipment and by next Wednesday we will be gone.
Bear and Mal have been a big help with packing and moving, Mal is living in Christchurch at the moment and he and Bear are talking about buying a small place in the city, god what a man cave that will end up. Bear got some money when we sold the gardens and he had some turn up from overseas, well Mal always has money; I do wonder about that man.
I suggested they buy the house next door to his ex which we saw was for sale, but that brought a pile of expletive deletives from Bear, so its a no go.
I think they are looking in the Marshalands-Shirley area which is a real nice area, especially with the mall there, silly thing is I could have sold them my place in the city if they had told me sooner, it was in the Burwood - Dallington area quite close to the mall as well.
Now the girls are doing really well and have spent most of the holidays horse riding, they are now near experts and much more proficient than their mother, well as for their dad; he is a quad bike man. I wont let the girls anywhere near the quad bikes, especially considering the number of accidents there have been recently throughout the country.
Well must go for now, will write soon, promise.
Oh by the way, I am pregnant again, we are hoping for better luck this time.
Anne
Saturday 12 January 2013
My Goodness its hot
Its been very hot out here for the last week or so, yesterday the barometer read 35 degrees. It has been a little scary with scrub fires in the distance, but fortunately so far they have been some distance away and on the other side of the river. Everyone is nervous about what their neighbour is doing, we are all wary of using machinery out on the farms in case a spark ignites a fire.
Jason has a water tanker trailer on the back of the tractor that he keeps close when he is working out in he paddocks and we have a pump we can run down to the river if need be.
Jason flew up to Palmerston North a few days ago to have a look at the farm he was interested in buying, it sounds ideal but very much at the top of the range for price that we are looking at. Also we are having issues with the girls who are being very pedantic and absolutely refuse to move away from their friends, Bear and Gran.
So for now our search continues, but yesterday we signed the acceptance offer so now its down to the legalities.
We have had Emmett here for the last two days, he has been using his helicopter to help with the fires and besides its nice to know we have a helicopter with a bucket here on the farm. Sadly if he inst needed today he will be flying back home later this afternoon.
Mal hasn't been too well the last few days, he has had a very high temperature and Speedi has been caring for him up at his place, Speedi says it is a hangover from a disease Mal caught when they served in the US army, he said they all caught something when they were in South America or somewhere and it comes and goes????
The good news is the temperature has broken this morning, yaaaa for mal baby.
Well today we are off to have a drive into Rangiora to have lunch with Kelly and Gran and then a drive by on some farms that are up for sale.
Love to you all
Annie
xxxxxxx
Jason has a water tanker trailer on the back of the tractor that he keeps close when he is working out in he paddocks and we have a pump we can run down to the river if need be.
Jason flew up to Palmerston North a few days ago to have a look at the farm he was interested in buying, it sounds ideal but very much at the top of the range for price that we are looking at. Also we are having issues with the girls who are being very pedantic and absolutely refuse to move away from their friends, Bear and Gran.
So for now our search continues, but yesterday we signed the acceptance offer so now its down to the legalities.
We have had Emmett here for the last two days, he has been using his helicopter to help with the fires and besides its nice to know we have a helicopter with a bucket here on the farm. Sadly if he inst needed today he will be flying back home later this afternoon.
Mal hasn't been too well the last few days, he has had a very high temperature and Speedi has been caring for him up at his place, Speedi says it is a hangover from a disease Mal caught when they served in the US army, he said they all caught something when they were in South America or somewhere and it comes and goes????
The good news is the temperature has broken this morning, yaaaa for mal baby.
Well today we are off to have a drive into Rangiora to have lunch with Kelly and Gran and then a drive by on some farms that are up for sale.
Love to you all
Annie
xxxxxxx
Wednesday 9 January 2013
We're selling up
Yes thats right and it has been a real quick decision.
Last Monday night we had a real estate agent come around and tell us that he had a buyer who was offering to buy our farm and the one next door, it was a foreign buyer and they were very keen to buy into this area.
Up until then there hadnt been a thought about selling up as we were very happy here, but the price was way over what we could realistically walk away from; so this week we had to do some real serious soul searching.
It has been a little complicated on our end because Bear owns 10 acres of land and he had leased that out to Kurt etc so it has meant a lot of legal foot work to arrange but finally it looks like Jas and I have agreed to sell. As its a foreign buyer it has to go through a number of legal loopholes but we have been advised there shouldn't be a problem that end, the problem of course is with us.
The girls were doing really well at school here and are very happy and settled, we are now having trouble trying to get them thinking about a new school. Of course as we havent decided where we will be that is still an issue.
Realistically we would like to buy another farm in the area, but as they are now being sold at high prices it really does not make it viable, Jason says we could buy a small property (10 acres) in and around Oxford, invest the balance and he could find work so that is one option which the girls and I like; obviously. I still have my work which is online so it doesnt matter where I am in regard to that.
Another choice is we move to Rangiora buy a house there invest the money and settle down, the advantage of that is we would be close to Gran and Kelly and the girls would love that.
We are also looking at buying a farm down south, in the Tekapo area, but that is less attractive at the moment. We did even think about moving to Australia, but quite frankly that heat and those bush fires really just put me off that.
Jason is also looking and is quite keen on a place up near Palmerston North and as I like that area very much as well, that option is a biggy at the moment, having Massey University up there it would be good area for the girls, but we will see how that pans out. That option really depends on the price they will sell on, at the moment its borderline as to whether we seriously think about it or walk away.
As you can see we are still all at sea with where to go and what to do, but we will get it sorted soon.
Its been horrendously hot here with the temperature in the mid 30's quite often, it makes it very hard to work out on the farm, my old man (well younger man actually but shhhh) has quite a serious tan now, makes him even hunkier than before.
Well must go I have a heap of work to catch up on, love to you all.
Anne.
Last Monday night we had a real estate agent come around and tell us that he had a buyer who was offering to buy our farm and the one next door, it was a foreign buyer and they were very keen to buy into this area.
Up until then there hadnt been a thought about selling up as we were very happy here, but the price was way over what we could realistically walk away from; so this week we had to do some real serious soul searching.
It has been a little complicated on our end because Bear owns 10 acres of land and he had leased that out to Kurt etc so it has meant a lot of legal foot work to arrange but finally it looks like Jas and I have agreed to sell. As its a foreign buyer it has to go through a number of legal loopholes but we have been advised there shouldn't be a problem that end, the problem of course is with us.
The girls were doing really well at school here and are very happy and settled, we are now having trouble trying to get them thinking about a new school. Of course as we havent decided where we will be that is still an issue.
Realistically we would like to buy another farm in the area, but as they are now being sold at high prices it really does not make it viable, Jason says we could buy a small property (10 acres) in and around Oxford, invest the balance and he could find work so that is one option which the girls and I like; obviously. I still have my work which is online so it doesnt matter where I am in regard to that.
Another choice is we move to Rangiora buy a house there invest the money and settle down, the advantage of that is we would be close to Gran and Kelly and the girls would love that.
We are also looking at buying a farm down south, in the Tekapo area, but that is less attractive at the moment. We did even think about moving to Australia, but quite frankly that heat and those bush fires really just put me off that.
Jason is also looking and is quite keen on a place up near Palmerston North and as I like that area very much as well, that option is a biggy at the moment, having Massey University up there it would be good area for the girls, but we will see how that pans out. That option really depends on the price they will sell on, at the moment its borderline as to whether we seriously think about it or walk away.
As you can see we are still all at sea with where to go and what to do, but we will get it sorted soon.
Its been horrendously hot here with the temperature in the mid 30's quite often, it makes it very hard to work out on the farm, my old man (well younger man actually but shhhh) has quite a serious tan now, makes him even hunkier than before.
Well must go I have a heap of work to catch up on, love to you all.
Anne.
Tuesday 1 January 2013
Is 2013 the year of the Moron
We came back last night from the most wonderful week away, we were treated to flights around MT Cook and Milford Sound. A few days in Tekapo and another couple down in Queenstown. The weather was not always kind but generally we escaped the worst of the expected rain.
Sadly coming home we came back to a disaster.
We have had about 5 sheep stolen and it looks like someone killed a cattle beast in the paddock and cut it up there to take away. That's bad enough but at least we are insured, what was worse was over at the Gardens.
Some total brain dead moronic @!#&%# broke into the Garden store room and took all the weed-killers and sprayed almost all the vegetable gardens, the lavender beds and some of the orchard. My heart goes out to Kurt and his fellow gardeners they have gone through hell to get these gardens established and in one foul deed it has largely been ruined. Even the new water storage tanks only put in a few weeks ago have been attacked and the pumps stolen.
They took a lot of garden tools and equipment (Not like they will have brains to work out how to work a spade) as well as seeds and young plants.
Im not sure what will happen to the garden, I have rung Kurt to tell him but he isnt back from holiday, but I am betting this will gut him. The police said they will be in today sometime, no hurry it seems as its been done and gone.
It absolutely guts me that people so can be so small minded to cause such chaos and destruction, I hope the rest of 2013 improves.
I haven't seen bear, but I have heard from him via radio, he is staying between Linda's and Sandy's, apparently he has not been to well and is waiting to hear when he goes in for surgery.
Sadly coming home we came back to a disaster.
We have had about 5 sheep stolen and it looks like someone killed a cattle beast in the paddock and cut it up there to take away. That's bad enough but at least we are insured, what was worse was over at the Gardens.
Some total brain dead moronic @!#&%# broke into the Garden store room and took all the weed-killers and sprayed almost all the vegetable gardens, the lavender beds and some of the orchard. My heart goes out to Kurt and his fellow gardeners they have gone through hell to get these gardens established and in one foul deed it has largely been ruined. Even the new water storage tanks only put in a few weeks ago have been attacked and the pumps stolen.
They took a lot of garden tools and equipment (Not like they will have brains to work out how to work a spade) as well as seeds and young plants.
Im not sure what will happen to the garden, I have rung Kurt to tell him but he isnt back from holiday, but I am betting this will gut him. The police said they will be in today sometime, no hurry it seems as its been done and gone.
It absolutely guts me that people so can be so small minded to cause such chaos and destruction, I hope the rest of 2013 improves.
I haven't seen bear, but I have heard from him via radio, he is staying between Linda's and Sandy's, apparently he has not been to well and is waiting to hear when he goes in for surgery.
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