The new lawnmowers!

Dalgo (front) is a young pinto, and Mr Horse (rear) is an elderly thoroughbred ex-racehorse.

We've been here for four and a half months now and it really is starting to feel like home. At first it felt rather isolated, it is a 15 minute drive to the nearest town and that is a big adjustment for someone who has spent the majority of my adult life living in city apartments!
However, we have started to meet a few of our neighbours and have realised how incredibly friendly and welcoming everyone is around here.

The general impression is that country people are helpful, generous and support each other. Well, it's all true. When we first moved in our neighbours across the road came over with a wheelbarrow-load of wood because it was winter and we may not have arranged firewood.

Since then, we have shared plenty of cups of coffee, swapped advice and various baked delights and been extremely thankful when someone has offered the use of a machine or piece of equipment that they have to make a particular task easier. The gorgeous border-collie cross kelpie farm dog who lives on the property down the hill visits every day to play with our daughter, every time you drive past someone they wave. It's fantastic.

The new lawnmowers...

Recently I came home to a note on the front door from a neighbour we hadn't yet met, asking if we'd be interested in agisting some of her horses. We have 11.5 acres and no animals to eat the grass, so we agreed and now we have two very friendly, beautiful lawnmowers that come and greet us whenever we go outside.