The Quiet Life

[paulhaines]

We are all loving it down here in Rosebud. The Mornington Peninsula is a great place to be, or it's where we want to be now so it's working out good. My wife is happy, my daughter developing into some loud, skipping, energetic bundle of noise, and I'm even more happy that their happiness is obvious

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[i_ate_my_crusts]

I love that part of Victoria - spent a bit of time around Mt Martha, and with trips to King Arthur's seat. Great photographic locations, and ...I can imagine how freezing it is!

Glad it's treating you well.

[paulhaines]

Jules and Isla are both snapping photos regularly. Quite neat watching Isla try to be like her mother as a photographer.

And even better, we have ducted heating in going as I type!

[amandapillar]

Uh, kitty litter problem might be solved by using one that has a lid (an enclosed litter). Some have doors and filters too, so the stench doesn't escape so fast.

If you get one without a closing-door, the only area he can stick his butt out is the door, and they normally have their head poking out of that. You can grab em from your supermarket or Big W etc.

[paulhaines]

Didn't know about enclosed ones. May look into this, but because our cat seems so dumb, I'm wondering how we'd get him to go into it. He will think it's like the box he goes into for vet/surgery/Rosebud.

Still, nothing like the smell of catshit in the morning as you're preparing breakfast.

[amandapillar]

Ahh yes. Ours like to do it during dinner/breaky.

[flinthart]

Yeah, moving a cat. Shit, eh? The previous owner of this place had a 17-year old cat, had never lived anywhere else. We just told him flat: leave the thing here. She lived with us another two years - a fine age for a cat.

I note you've got 'roos. I believe I mentioned they might be a problem. Umm... if you happen to know someone licensed to shoot, they actually cook up very nicely - if they're anything like their Tasmanian cousins.

And even though I know you're a smart mofo, I'm gonna remind you that insulation works wonders, and can make heating an awful lot easier. Chances are that in an older, rural place, you're kind of lacking on the insulation front.

Glad to hear the place is working out as hoped, though. There's a lot to be said for the city, but I find it's a lot easier to say it from the verandah of a country house, listening to the magpies and the kookaburras.

[paulhaines]

So far the roos are part of the idyllic dream (and we have no vegie garden as yet). Three of them this morning on the lawn posing for photographs, one with a joey. Aw, so cute! (as Isla says).

The guy did this place up gutting it completely and rebuilding the interior completely so I *think* we have insulation (but who knows for sure?) Anyways, the new ducted heating fills the house within a couple of minutes. Glorious!

And my sentiments exactly about things to be said for the city. I do love the city, but I love it even more from here amid birdsong.

Feline ablutions

[drcow]

Great to hear the move south is working so well. My sympathies with the cat shit issues. You are reminding me of why I left that side of the vet game. Cow shit is so much more pleasant smelling. And on a cold morning there is no warmer place to be than inside a cow!

Re: Feline ablutions

[paulhaines]

Thanks, Peter. Can you climb all the way inside a cow like you can with a bed though?

Re: Feline ablutions

[paulhaines]

And though we haven't managed to visit each other since you moved, if you are ever down this way, come on in!