Happy Days
I don't think I've ever been this happy. Maybe it's because I've finally landed back in my heartland. Honest to goodness I'm freaking pinching myself every day.
This morning after checking the surf not two minutes from my home I came home and went for a walk with Jamie, up a short hilly street from our front door and then onto the heath. When I say heath I'm talking thousands of acres of bush for walking and mountain bike riding. From the hill you see the town nestled amongst the trees and the sea in the distance.
This track heads down to the river where a big pirate ship hugs happy children. A bird spotter sits happily in the reeds taking photos of feathered things. It's a different set of birds to home - the wattle birds screech louder with a cark cark at dawn and maggies lope like gangsters in the front garden looking for unearthed bugs from our gardening efforts.
From here there's a few ways to get uo the shops if we chose - across the river where kookaburras espy fingerlings and people kayak upriver. But we choose to walk home through the streets. Unlike some other coastal towns that are more developed, Angelsea is tightly held, a collection of passed down houses from the 50s onwards or renovated builds with views. It's relatively humble. You can't build out because of the NP. Here if you want a new build you have to demolish, and who has that money?
The boomers who have lived here since they were kids are Angelsea through and through, a little more down to earth. They raised kids here and wax lyrical about paradise on earth and the good old days where people lived in two bedroom shacks with five kids in one room.
Whilst there are holiday makers about we can't hear nor see them from our street where we are blessed with permanent residents. With the land tax air bnbs are being sold as it's not worth their while. Some have holiday houses. How lucky they are.
There's orchids on the heath and heather and wildflowers.
Neighbors come past the front garden to say hello. You're the new residents, they say. Welcome. Love what you've done so far. So far all they can see is how much we have cleared the front garden, neatening it up and cutting self seeded scraggly bushes and getting rid of daisies and hebes and other old fashioned plants.
We have done the front blinds so have privacy now - the venetians were half price as were the linen sheers. But it's such a quiet street we don't see people walk past and look much. We have been in a rural area so long on five acres we were scared of the suburbs but this suburb isn't ordinary. It's beautiful and everyone is fucking happy.
You don't even have to rant at tourists because hell, we live here all year round and people pay good money to be here for a week or two.
And there's a parrot landing on the back deck as I speak, hello hello, she says, welcome to the neighbourhood.
If you were wondering, we are keeping the pine floors. We can't afford to do more than sand and poly so we will do that and maybe if it doesn't work we will do something else. But who fucking cares, hello, hello, hello, we live in paradise.
I freak out a little, worry. I could be dead soon. If so I've had so little time to wake up here. So I lay awake at night excited about the day as I don't want to miss it.
My happiness meter hits 148. Jamie's rests between 5 and 15. The needle nearly broke on Wednesday when he got hotdogs at IKEA. I nearly busted my happiness meter rescuing a worm crossing the road when it was raining yesterday.
Hello, hello, hello worm. I hope you are as happy as me.
With Love,
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omg this sounds like a dream 🌊🌿 the way you describe the place makes me wanna pack up and move there too lol.
Those magpies swaggering through the front garden for unearthed bugs made me grin, real pest control, no invoice needed :) Saving that little worm in the rain definietly counts as peak happiNess, loved that. Pine floors with just a sand and poly will look great, sometimes simple wins, and less dust in teh budget too. Jamie’s hotdog spike cracked me up, priorities sorted.
I don't know a man that doesn't love an IKEA hotdog 🌭🤣
Haha so true, that IKEA hotdgog is peak simple joy..
I always tell myself I'll behave then somehow walk out with two and a goofy smile' :)
Jamie has great taste. Did he go extra mustard or onions?
He's a mustard AND tomato sauce guy!
The holy duo, respect. That hotDOg doesnt stand a chance with both on top :) Now I need to know, is it a zigzag of mustard and and a big swipe of tomato, or all mixed like chaos?
I am so glad you finally landed where you will be happiest. It sure looks like you found the perfect place. Curious why your meter is 148 and Jamie's only 5 - 15... Keep wondering if it's a typo...
Hahah because I feel with all my heart, and Jamie has learnt not to let emotion overwhelm him. He doesn't feel like I do.
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I could see your smile absolutely beaming through this writing, and guess what - it is absolutely contagious! I am so very glad you made this dive and this move. It is clearly going oh so well for you!
And, not that you don't already know this, but if someone else happens to be reading my comment - know that you could die at any given moment, for any given reason, so make each and every moment count.
You never know when it could be your last.
Choose happiness. Find it in the mundane path you walk down the shops to. Look for the worm. Help it cross the road.
I am looking forward to seeing more of this new "happy" journey of yours! Have at it!
Have at it indeed!! Glad to infect you with a mere smidgeon of the joy I feel. I feel like cannot possibly get better, so it must go downhill, hence concern....
Friday evening was definitely the highlight of my weekend. :) It was definitely all downhill from there. The whipper snipper fucked my back good and proper :D
Oh no. Jamie keeps going, the trick is to whipper snip constantly or you're fucked...
Also, can I please use one of the photos from your post (with attribution) as the cover for one of my stories that I will be publishing on hive in the coming days? I won't tell you which one, to not spoil the surprise, if you say yes :P
Of course!!!
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It must feel so good to take walks there every day.
Seems you have found the perfect place to live for the rest of the life, enjoy every day.
I'm never moving again EVER!!!!
heck that place sounds exactly how it should be. And the 5 L's won again on the choice of housing. I'd vacay there as well!
And the floor? Honestly, they fit the place perfectly...don't chance them even if you could!
Oh mareuts insanely good. I'm so happy, did I say?
Yeah, you're posts reek of happiness, it's almost scary. Kind of contagious though, a welcomed distraction for me. Thanks for sharing that!
And talk about wild life... A PARROT????!?!? Oh my, I'm jealous.
Ha yes there's lots of cool birds here. My favourite are the yellow tailed black cockatoo but they are rare to see.
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I could feel the vibes of happiness radiating from this post as I read it! 😊 I am thrilled for you and Jamie, finding this lovely little house which you can turn into your own unique and loving home. The location sounds ideal, being so close to a nature preserve, in a quiet neighborhood, and not far from your beloved ocean!
Actually, I looked at your neighborhood on a map, just because I dearly love maps, and I see you also have a National Park rather close to you, too, with more hiking and biking trails all through it. There's also a few "scenic spots" with good views marked in the area as well — so many fun places to explore!
And, to be perfectly honest, I found your house on the map. No doubt about it; I could send you a Christmas Card via snail mail. But, the info is safe with me. I have looked-up quite a few places on maps based on clues from Hive posts; maybe I am descended from Sherlock Holmes, but I find it a fascinating challenge. 😆
Anyway, I love reading your updates and I'm excited to see what you do with the house and your new garden space! I hope your neighbors continue to be pleasant and you make some friends there! 😊
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