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Home Away from Home<\/h1>\n

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 \u00a0water proofing, since we are putting a roof top deck some time later on. \u00a0Having 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.<\/p>\n

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We didn’t think we had so much stuff still, but every time we stop there is less to move.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pets in all shapes and sizes…<\/h2>\n

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\u00a0mins 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. \u00a0They 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.<\/p>\n

Our February house sit was in Sarina Rangers, QLD, \u00a0in a \u00a0peaceful place that\u00a0has 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 \u00a0Tommy 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, \u00a0were 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.<\/p>\n

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The coach didn’t make it all the way in, at least the solar panels still got the sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The house was being built so it’s really a shed sit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Best friends Tyson (L) and Tommy Tigger (R)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We look after all kind of pets when your house sitting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One happy bull to have 4 cows to look after.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then you think it couldn’t get better we had our own creek to swim in every day.<\/p>\n

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It’s a hard life house sitting at Sarina Range, QLD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We had to take Tyson for a swim or did he take us every day. lol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The creek in motion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chuwar near Ipswich is our new house sit at the moment, we are here for 6 months. \u00a0We are looking after two dogs, Kingston and Lexy as well as \u00a0Charlie the cat.<\/p>\n

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This is Kingston, still missing mum and dad, some days more than others.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is Lexy (sexy Lexy we affectionately call her)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is Charlie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition we get to eat all the fruits, herbs and veggies of other peoples labour, how good it this!<\/p>\n

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Just one or two Paw Paw, so sweet an delicious.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We will be dehydrating most of the bananas and giving some to family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chuwar house sit Dragon fruit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.\u00a0So click this link to go to\u00a0aussiehousesitters<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0it 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.<\/p>\n

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