HI River.
Oh gosh my heart was breaking for you reading this, but the last paragraph made me feel better on your behalf. I know it's difficult to uproot (literally in this case I guess) and leave all of that hard work and soil toil behind, but if it has to be done and you've made the decision, you'll have to make the most out of your last harvest and then look back on your hard work and BE PROUD!
There will be gardens ahead in your future and you get to look forward to that.
Lory and I are in the process of moving house and while I didn't have much of a veggie garden here mainly due to the semi desert nature of this place, I still understand the difficulty in packing it in. I started packing 2 months ago and I'm still busy. We're leaving the end of December so starting the new year in a new place. It seems 2022 has a lot of change in store for all of us.
Whatever happens, keep your chin up and enjoy your harvests as they happen.
Sending you a big hug
xx Andy xx
Thanks so much. Where are you moving to? It's stressful isn't it? I've already started packing and the house isn't on the market officially yet!
Hi River.
Thanks for writing. Lory and I are moving to Knysna. I was thinking about this yesterday actually while on our 6hr drive back from Cape Town, if you had asked me 5 years ago if I'd live outside of Cape Town I would have said no...but living out of a main city has been amazingly liberating in so many ways.
Gosh yes packing 😑 I'm 7 months pregnant and packing is proving to be a pain in the rear end big time. It's good that you've started early before the house is on the market - trust me, the more time you have the less stressful it will be as the time draws closer!
By the way your comments this morning on the coffee post made me smile - a tough feat considering I woke up in a really foul mood, I owe you a cup of really GOOD coffee in your favourite mug for that 😉
OH gosh, 7 months pregnant and moving woudl be so hard! Wait - I moved with a 3 week old once... eek!
I'm so glad the mug made you laugh. It certainly gets it's mileage from all that encouunters it!!
Good luck with the move - yay to rural living! A much better place for kids to grow up. I jsut looked at Knysna - it looks lovely! Will it be right by the sea or a little inland? Do you sail?