April update

Marty and I have been improving small things around the house, starting with our own hot shower. The hot water is made possible by a Joolca Hot Tap. We dragged the bath into the bathroom from it's home outside in the sun. We put up the shower curtain that was purchased at Ikea when we visited Marty's Mom just before we moved in here.. has it really been 5 years?! We even made another shower curtain for the other side of the bath as well. It looks all mismatched and crazy, but I love our bathroom now! Marty does too!

We have been eating a carnivore diet for 4 months now, we even quit drinking coffee (the first couple of weeks without caffeine was rough!!). So we're eating mostly beef, liver and kidney, and extra fat from suet, and drinking water. It's a simple diet, but it seems to be working wonders. Our weight is stable now, I'm 51-53kg (112-116 pounds), Marty is 55-57kg (121-125 pounds), but that's only a side benefit. My joint pains have settled down now, and my menstrual cycle is getting easier to deal with every month. Nails are strong, skin issues are clearing up. Our sleep is great, bathroom issues are non-existent. Our moods are stable, we have more strength and energy than before, although there is still room for improvement there. We're healing though, we can feel it.

We purchased a Weber Baby Q and really enjoy doing all our cooking outside now. It keeps the kitchen much cleaner, and it makes food taste delicious. We just finished making a trolley on castors for it, using a modified version of this rolling bar cart plan by Ana White.
 

We had a visit from an echidna recently too! First time we've seen one here, and I hope you don't mind, but I got a few photos..

Echidna walking over some irrigation pipe.

The echidna rearranging the logs in the garden between the lavender and the rosemary bushes. There's no shortage of ants here.

The echidna digging out the dirt from a pot of native violets. The violets are ok, I'm sure they'll re-grow!

Walking through the garden, it wasn't scared of us at all.

Mum and Mike came to see us on their way down for an appointment and were lucky enough to get to see the echidna too, but we haven't seen it since. The weather has cooled down a lot since then, and we've had the fire on just the once. Last night we were fortunate to get 56mm (2.2 inches) of rain! The water tanks are now half-full, and we're even planting some trees. Well, local wattle trees and old man saltbush, since they're tough enough to survive the dry summers.

Until next time!