Property Daydreams

 Living in town on a quiet quarter acre backing onto agricultural land has been idyllic for the last few years. I acknowledge that I am incredibly lucky to have a home large enough for the animals I care for now. My (literal) cow neighbours have satiated the part of me that grew up on a farm with all of the space I could ever need for a long time. 

However since starting to care again, I found myself wanting just a little more room. It started as just enough to have some space for another pen, next it was just a little more again so I could have long term care of roos too. Now I find myself daydreaming (and looking on RealEstate.com.au) for properties in my area that I could soft release animals on. Somewhere safe without hunters and highways. Pens, possum boxes, wombat pits. The dream right?

However, in all things that I am passionate about, I have a tendency to to want to do too much. So maybe it is a good thing that I am being kept in check by the size of my property. Short of winning the lottery, I have to accept that my capacity as a carer is always going to be limited by the fact that I work full time, so even with all of the space in the world, I would still only have so many hours in the day.

We would all love to be full time carers with the facilities to keep from rescue to release, but few of us have those kinds of resources.  

It is a bitter pill to swallow sometimes, but doing all that I can do is enough, right?