“It’s very brave and exciting, what you did,
Love!”
“Excuse me?”
“Packing up everything and starting a winery!”
“Oh, thank you. Yes, I suppose it is.”
“I heard all about it on the radio this
morning!”
And that’s how I learned that we were radio
stars! Apparently our interview (recorded about a month ago, one afternoon at
the winery) was played at 6:15am on the local ABC radio ‘Country Hour’ on
Monday morning.
Josh
and I have been spectacularly lucky these last six months. It could be because
we work hard, have met some incredibly helpful people and have a clear vision
of what we want to achieve. If you ask Von, it could be because we are both 8’s
and dragons. Or it could just be the universe repaying us some good vibes for
taking such a huge risk. Whatever it is, I’m pretty stoked with what’s been
happening lately.
We’ve
managed to snag a small snippet on Queensland Weekender (tentative air date 26th September!) and have had a few newspaper articles
written about us. The most recent is an online article for ABC Wide Bay (http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2015/08/20/4296903.htm)
and then later the radio interview. We’ve built up a bit of a following on
social media (www.facebook.com/ohanawinery -
like us if you haven’t already!)
I
can honestly say that I love little old Childers. Perth was great, obviously,
and all my friends and family are there and I LOVED my job, but moving to
Childers has been a surprisingly easy transition for me. I love going down the
street and knowing the names of the local butchers, the girls at the post
office and the bank. I always keep an eye out for BK (the guy who did some
bobcat work at our place) leaning up against the window at the pub. There are a
few local ‘oldies’ who we’ve met who like to call by for a chat every now and
again. Childers has just been so welcoming and supportive – and we’ve already
met a ton of people that we can pull favours from!
One
of Josh’s drinking buddies is also a volunteer firefighter, and bought the
Childers Rural Fire Brigade truck out to our place last week to help with a BIG
burn off. Within about an hour we had cleared up a heap of green waste…and we didn’t
even set fire to the cane farm next door! It was a pretty epic fire. We even
had some “concerned passers-by” (American backpackers) stop off to check that
it was all ok!
We’re
also planning to build a semi-permanent roof/rain proofing in our outdoor
seating area. I want something new, shiny and preferably made out of
colourbond. Josh and another drinking buddy reckon they’re going to rig
something up out of an enormous tarp. (If it’s a tarp, its not considered
permanent, therefore doesn’t require council approval). The next decision is
whether we do it over our existing café area…or move the big junky cool-room
(affectionately known as “the toad shed”, as opposed to the garden shed “the snake
shed”) and create a new seating area. The toad shed is on a concrete slab and
overlooks the orchard, so it would make an awesome seating area…..but it’s just
SO much more effort!
And a new under-covered seating area will come in so handy,
if our next big trick pays off. I can’t reveal anything just yet (I don’t want
to jinx us!) but we have something very exciting in the works.
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| The massive fire |
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| Otto, with his avocado "ball" |
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| Kooky Booky, my bestie who comes to visit every arvo :) |
