We had a lot of family visiting
over the Christmas and New Year period.
Our farm house was supposed to be finished, and the fact that it wasn’t
could have been very stressful with my two sisters, our niece, my parents and Cor’s
parents, plus our friends Scott, Sarah and their boy Zach all visiting over
this period. Fitting up to 8 people into
the house we are staying in proved a logistical challenge, but it wasn’t the
stressful occasion that I was expecting.
Instead, the house bustled with a wonderful kind of energy, people
picking up Julian and playing with him, reading to him, helping us with
cooking, cleaning, gardening and farm work. Having Julian may have acted as a
catalyst to get everyone to visit us here in Tasmania, and we aren’t
complaining one bit.
With everyone here we cooked, we
chatted, we worked, but most importantly, after a really busy run up to
Christmas, we recharged our batteries.
It was really great to have
everyone here, it acted as a real circuit breaker in our daily routines and
gave us a chance to step back and reassess where we were going. It brought us to a crossroads in the life of
our farm, which we will look at in our next post. For now, here are the pics….
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| The Ungs and their boy Julian |
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| Charlene and Julian |
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| Our niece Amelie arrives! |
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| Family photo! |
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| The last Tack boys |
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| Big cousin looking after "baby doolean" |
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| Princess doing her job |
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| Who would have thought a vegetarian would love wheelbarrowing a pig? |
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| We kinda grow a bit of fruit here in Tasmania |
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| Duckingham Palace, a construction brought to you by the Tack men |
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| Wood? Sorted! |
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| Southport rocks! |
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| Amelie liked the farm, but next time she wants to hang out with the cows! |
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| Zach helps feed the pigs |
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| Zach wants in on story time! |
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| Julian was fascinated by his new mate |
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| Julian's first haircut was well overdue, thanks Jo! |
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| Bottling our beer |
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| Julian and Dad at the Luminarium during the Mona Festival |
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| Aunty Bee and Tony here, just before Chinese New Year, when the rest of the family descend! |
