Week 3: Ferral Cow

The other day I was talking with my colleagues about my ferral cow problem and they thought I was having serious issues with a female coworker!!  But no, my serious issues really are with a ferral cow!  First we had to fence the dam to stop the cow ripping up the liner, now it looks like we'll have to fence the building site to stop her damaging the footings, concrete slab and walls!!!  The slab is a worry as we are having a bare concrete floor so it needs to look good. She really is one angry cow!!  We contacted the council to see if they would shoot it, but they said it wasn't their problem unless she was a danger to society!!  So it looks like I'll be digging into the funds again to buy fencing ...grrrrr... I'd much rather spend the money on holidays!!

High Anxiety in the Tasmanian Countryside!

...and the anxiety is all mine!!
Well, we've survived week 1 of the build ... only 27 to go!!  Ian, our builder, is now set up on site and excavation has begun.  Monday was such a glorious day that he emailed us to tell us what a beautiful part of the world we'd chosen to live in... by Friday an Antarctic chill had set in and I'm not so sure he was thinking the same thing!  But we'll take the good with the bad and once the house is built and the fire is roaring who cares what it's like outside!
We did have one glitch this week and that was the soggy driveway.  It needs fixing to allow the heavy trucks to come onto the block so once more we find ourselves digging into our pockets for money :(