It has been a while since I have logged on. But I have been watching. I have been having a bit of a challenging time with moving the family to the country life, and changing jobs. I left the full time navy after 27yrs service for the commercial world. I have just started to come out the otherside feeling like I have a moment to breath.
Ok so to recap as a part of the work life balance, we made a tree change to the Canberra Australia region. Originally looking down Royalla way with Terrick, but settled up north on 50 acres of pasture, with a house and a small 9mx12m shed.
So the land was a subdivision which has meant a bit of fence and plumbing works for the cows we are running, as such my efforts have been on doing that. It has meant that I have had an ongoing approval to get a lot of machinery as a part of the work around our little farm. However, the drought that has been going now for 3years means that the spring feeding the dam (water for livestock) and our feed is almost gone. I am not whining as we still have a lot of feed in our pastures compared to the area, and thankfully we don’t rely upon it for a living unlike some poor farmers.
I’ll be sure to keep everyone up to date with my farming adventures. I am not completely ignorant to farming ways, as myself and my wife came from farming families. However that was almost 30yrs ago now. So it has/will be quite the adventure. The place is lovely even though we are in drought and the pastures are actually very dry and barren. We are running a few cattle at the moment, but just going to wait out the drought. I am inclined to make a bit of show so I am sure my neighbours on the hills will sit back on their front porches and watch a show of amateur accidents.
So what about the garage/shed. Well the place came with a 9x12m shed as shown. I quickly filled it once we moved in and need to work on storage of stuff immediately on arrival. As you can be see it is great to have a shed of this size but it filled quick.
Regardless, whilst a 9x12m shed is nice, but when you have this much land… well the shed should reflect. A bit of planning, and interpretative dancing with the council, the building of a 12mx24m shed can begin.
Whilst, I normally would develop a detailed plan for the shed, even CAD base the design, to ensure everything has it place and is perfectly position; this time I am doing it differently. This is my 4th shed/workshop, and after doing things differently every time I realise that all the planning in the world is always overtaken by my natural tendency to rearrange things, 3 or 4 times once I put it in position. So this time I have plan that I am starting with and will adjust to reflect. This resulted in me just putting the barn doors in at the front.
These were to be the only access, but I have since put an PA door in on the side now. I have not installed any windows as yet, well at least not until I am sure I know what I am going to do. I will probably live to regret it as I loaded all my stuff from storage into the shed, and when I mean storage; I am talking 30yrs of stuff spread all over Australia due to various relocations with the Navy.
So the shed is now full, and it is time to get into it and sorting out where it all should go.
I have been drafting this up for a while but had been really busy with work, so I planned to write and submit this to the forum over Christmas. Things took a bit of a turn over the Christmas period herein Australia the fire season has been significant. Luckily we did not have any fires near us but it has been a real tinder box and with the drought it has meant there is just no moisture in the paddocks’ grasses.
