Its been over 4 years since my sprouting family fled the city in search of a better life. Looking back now I never thought it’d take this long to get settled. Of course I expected the world to go a bit wonky with plenty of disaster scenarios planned for, but I never saw the pandemic coming and boy – what a doozy these last few years have been!
Initially we hid out in the Woodhill Mountain where I penned The Bug Has Landed and it was a truly beautiful spot where we were happy for a while. The bushfires came through in late 2019 and we evacuated twice, but that was nothing compared to the pandemic that rolled on in just a couple of months into 2020. Initially I thought it was a great spot to isolate, amongst the birds and wildlife – that first lockdown was a bit scary but relatively pleasant. If society had collapsed then and there then I think we would have been OK. But it didn’t and sure enough our landlords were selling the place from under us and plenty of other city folk were now trying to get outta dodge so we jumped off Woodhill Mountain before we were pushed as I didn’t like the prospect of being left homeless in the middle of a raging pandemic….so we landed back in suburbia in the little town just down the road for a while.
Then the second big lockdown hit and we were screwed - unable to participate in society for about 5 months. I hit a personal low when I ranted about Living Under Apartheid in Australia and when our 2nd landlord decided to sell the house from under us (after promising he wouldn’t) I was ready to leave the country entirely and I thought the universe was giving me a shove.
Sanity prevailed and once again our little Bug family fled to a nearby rural area and we were Bugged Out Again in early 2022 just as it seemed we might be past peak crazy times, but I wasn’t taking any more chances. Our plan was always to build a permanent home in the area and 2022 was the year that construction finally (kinda) kicked off. With covid, supply chain issues and then La Nina (where it rained for several months) it was pretty slow going at first, but we are finally reaching the light at the end of the tunnel - over 5 months overdue. This week we got the key to our new house and with a few important things still to get sorted (like floors) we are now only days away from our final move-in to what is probably going to be the hill-to-die-on...for me at least.
So I might be a little bit hard to get hold of this week, but I’ve grown accustomed to juggling a few balls in the air at once so while I’m going to be busy I think I can handle the home stretch (pun intended). I might be a little bit slow to respond on Discord, but I’m not really going anywhere far. Not only am I looking forward to my new life in our forever home, but with some time and mental energy freed up I should be back into the HIVE scene proper and able to get involved in some fun projects. It could be a really good time to get back into things as this bear market in crypto looks like it’s running out of legs...
Here's cheers to good times ahead!
