Meeting the neighbours April 2011
After 15 years in the inner metropolitan suburb of Parkside, South Australia I returned to country life in 2010.
Now that my studies as a Behavioural Scientist (major Animal Behaviour) are completed, it's time to get away from the "Big Smoke" of Adelaide, and to return to the clean country air.
After much searching I found our home in the Adelaide Hills near Macclesfield. With a dam and surrounded by undulating hills and grazing properties it was perfect. We did the big-move in July 2010 after staying in a good friends detached Rumpus room during the four-month selling/searching/buying adventure. My dogs as always were very adaptable during all this upheaval. It seems that home is where I am and that nothing phases them.
The dogs love our new place with the dam for daily swims and acerage for exercise. The birds got all the fruit from the orchard this season (we'll be ready for them next time). I'll start the veggie garden in autumn and I'm working-out using the push-mower to cut all the grass, and by splitting wood for heating.
The insitu pizza oven has been a hit, though I prefer the basic bush BBQ down by the dam, for a snag or lamb chop and a shared bottle of Red.
The bird life is wonderful: ducks on the dam and kookaburra's patrolling for snakes (I haven't seen one). There are a variety of parrots, wattle-birds and fairy wrens just to name a few.
The resident mob of 30 Euro's (kangaroos) are often grazing about 50 metres from my kitchen window upon day-break. While making my morning coffee I watch the big-bucks have an upright-scuffle for the attentions of the does (with joey's at foot).
We wake to bird-song and fall asleep to the chorus of frogs; bats and tawney frogmouths' at Markable Lea (Markable's place of shelter).
Now that my studies as a Behavioural Scientist (major Animal Behaviour) are completed, it's time to get away from the "Big Smoke" of Adelaide, and to return to the clean country air.
After much searching I found our home in the Adelaide Hills near Macclesfield. With a dam and surrounded by undulating hills and grazing properties it was perfect. We did the big-move in July 2010 after staying in a good friends detached Rumpus room during the four-month selling/searching/buying adventure. My dogs as always were very adaptable during all this upheaval. It seems that home is where I am and that nothing phases them.
The dogs love our new place with the dam for daily swims and acerage for exercise. The birds got all the fruit from the orchard this season (we'll be ready for them next time). I'll start the veggie garden in autumn and I'm working-out using the push-mower to cut all the grass, and by splitting wood for heating.
The insitu pizza oven has been a hit, though I prefer the basic bush BBQ down by the dam, for a snag or lamb chop and a shared bottle of Red.
The bird life is wonderful: ducks on the dam and kookaburra's patrolling for snakes (I haven't seen one). There are a variety of parrots, wattle-birds and fairy wrens just to name a few.
The resident mob of 30 Euro's (kangaroos) are often grazing about 50 metres from my kitchen window upon day-break. While making my morning coffee I watch the big-bucks have an upright-scuffle for the attentions of the does (with joey's at foot).
We wake to bird-song and fall asleep to the chorus of frogs; bats and tawney frogmouths' at Markable Lea (Markable's place of shelter).