Mia Mia Station {Caretaking}

Our final stop for the year, is back at Mia Mia Station to care take while the owners head south for some much needed time with their family.

It was a lot of work to pack up out of the cottage and Lyndon, back into the camper and then back into a house again.  Not that, in summer we would ever consider living in the camper up here but I do dread the pack up when we leave here in January.

So far Justin has had a wonderful time, doing an array of different things.  If he had his way and could make it work we would be out here forever and as much as I do love the people and the places, it isn’t a forever location for me.  Realistically it simply isn’t practical.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hard to believe that this was our final stop for the year.  Whilst we’ve had a visit to Lyndon for a birthday party, a Christmas party at Bullara, a day in Coral Bay x 2 and plenty of visits to the neighbours we are really in one place.  One big house with gardens to water and floors to clean.

 

We have been blessed to also have had some visitors while we have been here the last month or so.  Dad surprised me by showing up one night, with no warning and then hanging out with us for a little over a week.

My sister and her family stopped in for the night on their way to Perth for a wedding and Christmas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a good Christmas, with dinner Christmas Eve at Winning and then a nice quiet day at home.  The kids love what they got from both us and Santa, I was also still in awe and our homemade tree and tip found decorations {now to workout which ones we are going to keep for keepsakes of our Christmas here}.

Boxing Dad Justin's brother, Aaron and his wife Ali came up for a few nights.  They brought with them warmer weather and a few passing showers {it also meant we got a few nights with amazing sunsets}.  We saw them off with a trip to Coral Bay, swimming and of course lunch at the pub.

 

 

*sigh* It does make me miss a house and also hope that in 2015 we work out ‘where to from here’

Yanrey Station {Working}

Time to head back to Yanrey for some more work. Although this time it was kind of a dump and run.  As in Justin dumped the camper and us {Kaleb, Kyla and myself} and took off to work on the new mining camp for a few weeks.

Was weird, being there knowing that J was working but not seeing him everyday.  Weird having him only pop home for a night once a week and then disappear in the early morning.

Keeping up with school work and keeping the kids happy was actually harder than I thought, given normally J is working when he is home.  Thankfully there was a few adoptive animals around Yanrey that did provide some distract, we also had a visit for a night from some Perth friends.

 

 

 

 

 

Needing to distract the kids from the lack of Dad being around, we called in a favour {or ten} and decided to head back to Lyndon.

Yanrey Station {Working}

We blinked at our time back at Yanrey had passed again.

I suspect that was because we tag teamed sickness, but J did manage to finish the kitchen in the homestead and I spent sometime creating.

 

Yanrey Station {Working}

After having a wonderful picnic there last year we decided to stop at Barridale again on our way to Yanrey.  Was a great idea.

 

 

It has taken more than 12 months but we found ourselves back at Yanrey Station again.  Not much has changed mind you, well except for the number of people around for mustering this year.

Justin embarked on bathroom repairs, plumbing issues and restoring one end of the old homestead verandah.  The most exciting, was finishing of the installation of a kitchen in the homestead, it even has running hot & cold water!

While he was working away, we plodding along with our school work.  In between times looking around, cleaning old pressed tin kitchen walls, feeding poddy calves, watching birds and avoiding the dust from the cattle yards.

August said goodbye to September and we also a week later said see you later to Yanrey…..

 

 

 

 

 

Mia Mia Station {Working}

The week flew by in a blur.

Justin worked his butt off, the smalls and I hammered out some school work, we did some driving together, had a quick trip to town and even managed to do some exploring.  The homestead here really could be something splendid with a little TLC but the one thing it does have in abundance is history.  A room full of old items that have been collected around the place and an old tip with some many wonderful stories it could tell.

The pictures really do tell most of the story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next stop busy bee for the WBG and then onto Lyndon.