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An Uawa County ​Almanac​

New Year, New Beginning

7/1/2017

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We are underway with our project to build a sustainable off grid lifestyle as a counterpoint to our city lives - the lifestyle we want to have versus the lifestyle we have to have.

​After Christmas in Auckland we left the house in the care of Hannah and Zane so they could continue their summer jobs to finance their university studies and have spent a week at T
āne's Rest to get the ball rolling.
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Our driveway now with some gates announcing habitation.
Taking a trailer load of fencing timber and posts with associated paraphernalia we have built and erected a set of gates to begin our fencing programme. These are the first post holes that Grant has dug since he was a student working to finance his own university studies by spending summer fencing in the Marlborough Sounds.
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The beginning of our first log stack to bring order to the chaos.
Time with a chainsaw has also established Marie's first orderly firewood stack and made a small dent in the piles of log offcuts. It is clear that we will also need to incorporate a wood fired pizza oven in our plans as this will allow us to cook outside, to eat delicious food and to put at least some of the wood debris to a productive use. ​We also have the spot for an oven worked out as we have begun to level the site for our caravan.

​​It is a New Year and a new beginning, both for Tane's Rest and our family as we look towards a more sustainable future.
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