The Move South

 6 Days after our daughters wedding the big semi and trailer arrived to pack up all our belongings for

The New House

the massive move south ..... to Corowa in Southern NSW, which is right on the Murray River on the North side from where we used to live in Bundalong (on the Victorian side of the Murray). .  

The Townsville crew had called back into our place in Maryborough after the wedding to stay a night before heading back up..... it was great to see them all again.

It took from 6am to 4pm with 6 guys to pack up the truck and at 4pm Pete, myself and my Dad left Maryborough - Pete with the ute pulling the green boat and me with Dad in the Kia pulling the camper van. 

Dad loves the new unit

We arrived on Saturday, 2nd Oct at 8pm to the new house It was hard to imagine the week before we
had been celebrating the wedding!  A lovely welcome gift had been left by the real estate which was lovely! And we had also purchased some of the furniture in the house so that we could not only use it when we arrived, but we would also be able to use it to furnish Dads new unit in the retirement village in Corowa that he was moving into on the Tuesday!

So Tuesday we moved Dad into his unit and did a few trips with the Ute to move furniture from this house into his unit and get him set up (and safely out of the chaos that would descend on us 2 days later when the truck arrived to unload everything here!!!

Pete pulled out the large bush out the front that I wanted out in order to replace it with a garden more to my liking.  We also had to pull out some horrid prickly bushes from near the front door. I soon got to it and was able to get lots of plants out of pots and into the ground and create a whole new look ...... its going to take some time to take shape so watch this space.............

Scruffy is now in the ground after being in the pot for the past couple of years and Cliffy is under his little bush in another area.

Before

This house is low to the ground which is nice when you have a sore back or hips to contend with!  It also has a pool which will be a blessing in the hot weather over summer for sure.  Lots of lovely walking paths on my doorstep with the river just a street away.  There is a track that follows the river and the golf course which is a lovely walk I've done a few times and once with a friend from Wangaratta who came over to catch up with us. Palm trees around the pool were quickly removed after all our dealings with palm fronds over the past 3 years!!!

and After removal!

Its been a bit chaotic with boxes everywhere and extra furniture that needed to be sold,.... but we are getting there.  We spent 3hrs getting  a massive creeper off the pergola near the pool so we could remove the old worn shade cloth and replace it with iron.  This was a priority as the shed needed to come down for a larger one to go up in its place so all the shed items would fit!  Meantime they have had to sit under the eaves and pergola to stay dry.  

3hrs with the both of us to pull this creeper down from the pergola!

We also got a couple of loads of soil in to fill up the empty garden bed that had been a vegie garden at some time in the past ....... and now is again!  We have planted quite a few vegies and waiting on getting some fruit trees into the yard as well and get back to producing quite a bit of our own supplies once again!

And with that catch up  I'll leave you with a couple more photos from the wedding as some of you had asked me of photos of Pete and I as well ..................   

Dad and I

Jaron, John & Pete (PJ was in lockdown)