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(Gonna eat a lot of peaches).
The move is done! I'm now situated on 2.13 ha of lutriwata (Tasmanian) bushland in a rather 70s looking 4 bedroom 2 bathroom house.
It is rather pleasant watching the landscape, lots of flowers, birds and insects on the flowers, wallabies and pademelons eating the grass at dawn and dusk, and the Tassie life is just that little bit slower than on Mainland Australia, though I'm sure places in up there outside the cities are similar.
I was not prepared for the spiders.
Soooo many spiders.
Mostly small harmless ones, but there are some giant hairy ones bigger across than my hand, Arachnophobe warning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delena_cancerides
My anxiety response to these, is pretty bad, bad enough that I think I might need to go to a doctor and get something done about it, get the heebie geebies for a few minutes after spotting one, and ruminate on it for hours after. And no, I can not deal with getting rid of them, I tried but was just not able to. And then trying to sleep when I know one was in the bedroom. Yeah, that was an unpleasant night. Strangely, or perhpas not I suppose, I'm much more OK with spiders outside the house, I still will avoid them, but at least outside, I can!
Yes, I know they're pretty much harmless to humans, it doesn't seem to make a difference knowing all I can about them.
Anyway, the house is showing its age, a lot needs to be fixed: the kitchen is kind of falling apart, the downstairs shower leaks on to the carpet on the other side of its wall, there are no flyscreens on half the windows, the rainwater harvesting system needs work, water comes out of the taps a bit more brown that I'd like, the gutters are full of rotting leaves that have turned into soil (though we cleared out one side yesterday), we need about 3 times the rainwater storage than we have, there's not enough storage for all our linens/towels etc, the garage room is uselss (we'll turn that in to the study eventually),
But I've also got a lot done: Replaced the broken light bulbs and flourescent tubes with LEDs, fixed the window locks, fixed the sliding shower door, found some new tall boys for the bedrooms, hung our hat rack, sorted out the TV unit, got my work space going, with a lovely view:
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and unpacked most of the moving boxes.
Always more to do though!
There's a lot of invasive plants growing on the property that we'll have to clean up, that's a significant piece of work.
Fire season is starting up soon, a bit later than normal this year, and it appears to be a doozy for our area, lots of fuel as we've had a lot of rain over the last few months, and it's about to get hot and dry, we have our evac plans in place, but it's not something I've been this close to before.
