We have a two and a half month house sit in Laidley heights looking after a little fur ball called Timmy, as well as the house. The weather is a bit hotter down the range than up in Toowoomba, but we will be back up there before it get’s hot again.
New spot to park the coachOn the side of a hill.
I had some fun trying to level the coach up this time, had to jack the front drivers side up a lot and still couldn’t get it perfect. So it’s as good as I could get it.
Jacked to the max at the front to get the blocks under to level her up.Only need to put blocks on one side.The back tag axle wheel off the ground, that’s a first for me.
So now the next stage of the coach can begin, first of will be clearing out the front of the coach through to the bathroom. Which will give me some where to work and make a mess as I finish of the bathroom. After that it will be into ripping up the old floor on the front half of the coach and replacing it.
We didn’t have much room getting in the driveway.Over looking Laidley Heights..
With the bedroom done to a point that we are happy with it’s time to clean up. The house sit has been great! We looked after two dogs, Lexy and Kingston. The cat, Charlie who had a swagger about him strutting around like he owned the place. Walking the dogs every day kept them happy and me a bit fitter.
A bit of a mess
What a mess we have
The rubbish bin’s were full for about 2-3 weeks as we cleaned up and set up the trailer for a tip run to get rid for more stuff …..that we really don’t need.
I have too much crap.We need to sort out if we store it or get rid of it ?The fun of it all.
Setting up for a kitchen
For the time being (as we will be living onboard again), we need a make shift kitchen again. This time it’s going to be a bit bigger then last time with more storage and bench space.
This will do for the time being, on this side.Looking down towards the back.
Still have a lot more to set up, but for now this is stage of the cleaning up, a lot more will be done later. I have to cleaning out the bins under the coach so we can start packing the tools from the shed away.
Where is the drivers seat?
Think the driver’s seat is here some where ?
Sometimes I think we are mad fitting out a motorhome on the road while at the different times living in it. It has had it’s moments, but life is good and we are having fun most of the time. But now it’s time to head off up the range to Toowoomba. Charmaine will be much happy with no more having to sleep in the troopy for a week at a time.
Time to leave ChuwarNow it’s back to living in the coach.What a great 6 months we had.
Kingston
Can I have some more please?
Lexy
Sexy Lexy, sitting still OMG!
Charlie
Charlie, the old man doing his thing
An interesting next 12 months
The next 6-12 months are going to be more interesting as we will be living and working on the coach at the same time, not sure how that’s going to work out at this stage, but we are thinking of how we are going to manage it.
Toowoomba Time
Living back in the coach for now, it’s nice to be back on the road. I am thinking about looking for some part time work while still working on the coach. I’ve fortunately found a small water leak on the roof with all that ran we got the last few weeks, so will be fixing that first. I have some sparky stuff in and around the coach that’s needs a good redoing and rewiring, then onto the water tanks with some plumbing work.
Camping time at Toowoomba Showgrounds.Lake side viewsVery nice place at the Showgrounds.
Temporary living
Ok it’s still needs lots of work, but who cares. We are in our own place and it’s a comfy home for us.
Tea for two.Temporary dinning area till the bathroom is finished.Feeling a bit green tonight…lol
There are thousands of products these days and we are all spoilt for choice in every direction we turn. We go out to the local shops and our huge shopping centres with their half empty shop fronts that promise the world but most times don’t deliver a true Aussie product.
Most people are unconscious consumers when it comes to buying and only look at the price. Is it on special? Is is a brand I am emotionally attached to? One huge question is…do I really need it. The answer is usually NO.
Being A Conscious Consumer
Bernie has been asked by people travelling if we promote any products and the answer has been always a no. It’s far more important when starting out to be a conscious consumer. What is that? You may be asking…. ask yourself the right questions. ……Where is that product made? Is it promoting Aussie jobs? Is it doing a benefit for my body and health? Is it a quality product or just a brand name? Is it something that correlates with my belief systems? Where is my money going? Church people all around Australia do not give money to the church they do not believe in, ….. so what is any different when buy a product?
This journey of conscious consuming does not come easily to any of us these days,…..why is that so? I can only think of one large word to answer this…CONSUMERISM!!!!.
Bernie and I feel that it is important to firstly inspire people to find their own moral compass…whatever that maybe. Obviously, we both use and buy products for cleaning, bathing, and restoring our health and wellbeing, These mostly correlate with our belief systems, but not all the time, …..as we are on our own journey of rediscovery ourselves and are far from any end.
We both want to encourage people to find what works for you, if you have found something that works for you, please just add a comment, as it may help someone else on their own journey as well….Let’s learn together!
In the next few weeks and months Bernie and I will be putting more blogs up in the ‘Conscious Consumerism’ category.
Have a great Day!
Ps. If you want to read another great blog, read Alden Wicker’s on March 01/2017 …
Currently we are on our third house sit and this is our longest one yet….it’s for 6 months. This is really good for us with such a big project, as it give us time to work on finishing off the bedroom and start on the bathroom. When the weather is good, I am get to pulling out the rest of the old air-con unit on the roof too. There are still holes to patch up, plus a bit of water proofing, since we are putting a roof top deck some time later on. Having a shed a the house to store our stuff makes it so much easier than trying to work around all that crap you still need.
We didn’t think we had so much stuff still, but every time we stop there is less to move.
Pets in all shapes and sizes…
The main part of most house sitting is looking after the family animals both big and small….. so far it’s been from cats to cattle. Our first sit was in Bowen for Michael & Michelle they have 13 acres about 20 mins out of town. We looked after their property for three weeks through the Christmas /New year time so they could go on a family holidays with their son, Jay. They have two lovely and very affectionate Border Collies, Buddy has long hair and Rosie has the shorter hair. They have two outside cats, one ginger in colour called Tom and Timmy is grey, all of them warmed to us very well.
Our February house sit was in Sarina Rangers, QLD, in a peaceful place that has a lovely running (all year) creek that is great for swimming and a cool down in the heat. Which we did almost everyday. We looked after Tyson and Tommy Tigger, four cow + one bull. This was a different house sit as we stayed in the coach half parked in their shed. Elaine and her partner, were in the middle of building their new house. Our blog top photo was taken by her, it was such a good photo we had to share it! It will be nice to pop in an visit them on our way up north next time.
The coach didn’t make it all the way in, at least the solar panels still got the sun.The house was being built so it’s really a shed sitBest friends Tyson (L) and Tommy Tigger (R)We look after all kind of pets when your house sittingOne happy bull to have 4 cows to look after.
Then you think it couldn’t get better we had our own creek to swim in every day.
It’s a hard life house sitting at Sarina Range, QLDWe had to take Tyson for a swim or did he take us every day. lolThe creek in motion.
Chuwar near Ipswich is our new house sit at the moment, we are here for 6 months. We are looking after two dogs, Kingston and Lexy as well as Charlie the cat.
This is Kingston, still missing mum and dad, some days more than others.This is Lexy (sexy Lexy we affectionately call her)This is Charlie.
In addition we get to eat all the fruits, herbs and veggies of other peoples labour, how good it this!
Just one or two Paw Paw, so sweet an delicious.We will be dehydrating most of the bananas and giving some to family.Chuwar house sit Dragon fruit.
House sitting has turn out to be one of the best ideas Charmaine’s come up with. We have pets to cuddle and love part time, as well as meeting some loverly people on our adventure around Australia. So click this link to go to aussiehousesitters it is a great way to get out of the motorhome for a short break or long one, whatever suits you. Housesitting has given us time to keep fitting out the coach, one house sit at a time.
