House Sitting Vacancies: Amazing Free Accommodation Experience in Australia

Life With No Anchor

Bonjour! Matt and Chrissy sharing our wonderful house sitting adventure on a magnificent 3-acre property near Australia's Glasshouse Mountains! 🏡✨  Join us for a delightful lunch on the lawn as we discuss why this house sitting vacancy has become our second-favorite experience! From looking after our charming goldfish friend Diplo to tending beautiful gardens and orchards, we'll share what makes house sitting vacancies such incredible opportunities for travelers and lifestyle enthusiasts.  What We Share: Why this house sitting vacancy ranks among our best experiences Charming lifestyle: garden care, orchard maintenance, and countryside living Delightful wildlife encounters - kookaburras, possums, and friendly birds The wonderful benefits of house sitting vacancies for travelers Helpful tips for discovering quality house sitting opportunities in Australia  Our Pleasant Duties: ✅ Pet care (so easy and enjoyable with Diplo the goldfish!) ✅ Beautiful garden and orchard maintenance ✅ Property care and seasonal maintenance ✅ Water system upkeep and cleaning ✅ Grounds maintenance and tidying  This Gorgeous Property Features: 🌿 Spacious 3-acre countryside property with natural creek 🏔️ Stunning location near the famous Glasshouse Mountains 🦜 Abundant local wildlife and bird species 🎵 Tranquil rural setting perfect for relaxation and creativity  Exciting Upcoming Content: We may have the opportunity to interview talented musician Eight Ball Aitken at an intimate concert - a unique addition to our usual travel content!  Love Travel and Lifestyle Content?  Subscribe for more house sitting adventures, beautiful property tours, and inspiring lifestyle content from across Australia!  Timestamps 0:00 AMAZING House Sitting Vacancies | Free Accommodation Australia! 0:24 Which House Sit Got First Place? 1:09 Visits from the Local Wildlife 2:26 Our Obligations on this House Sit 3:41 An Upcoming Event with Eight Ball Aitken  #housesitting #petsitting #glasshousemountains  Follow us on 🌐 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifewithnoanchor/ 🌐 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LifeWifNoAnchor 🌐 X (Twitter) https://x.com/LifeWifNoAnchor  Looking to become a Housesitter or a Petsitter?  Want to connect with a Sitter?  To get 25% off your membership on Trusted Housesitters go to https://www.trustedhousesitters.com/refer/RAF582519/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=refer-a-friend&utm_campaign=refer-a-friend

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00:01G'day!

00:02Matt and Chrissy here again.

00:03We're enjoying lunch out on the lawn.

00:05Chrissy's made a lovely tomato.

00:07No, tomato.

00:08There's another kind of tomato.

00:09It's mushroom.

00:10There's no tomatoes in here at all.

00:12An absolutely gorgeous mushroom soup, which I'm looking forward to getting into.

00:15But we were talking about these amazing house sits that we've done previously, and this

00:20one's right up there.

00:21I think this is probably second best.

00:23Mmm.

00:24Second best house sit I'm going to go with.

00:26Nice.

00:27Which one do you reckon was the best in my books then?

00:29I'm going to say Pumpenbill.

00:31Yeah, Pumpenbill.

00:32Beautiful property that we've got to look after.

00:34It's something about the big properties that's amazing.

00:36The lifestyle blocks.

00:37It is.

00:38It is the lifestyle blocks.

00:39This one's about three acres, and just down behind us on this side, and behind you.

00:44So where you're sitting right now, turn around and have a look behind you.

00:47There's a creek.

00:48Down the back of the block, there's a creek that sort of runs around the edge there.

00:52And it's really, really pretty.

00:54We just had a kookaburra fly through.

00:55We've got birds singing around us.

00:57And I think someone's playing piano or band practice over on the other side of the property

01:01here somewhere.

01:02Sounds really good.

01:03Absolutely beautiful.

01:04What have you really enjoyed about this sit so far, Chris?

01:06It's been really peaceful.

01:07Yeah.

01:08Yeah.

01:09It has.

01:10I had a little pigeon this morning come up and just knock at the window.

01:14He was there for about an hour, just trying to come in.

01:17He was trying to get my attention.

01:18And every time I went over the window, sort of scurry away and then sort of come back

01:22and lie there in the sunshine and then start tapping on the window again.

01:25It was really quite cute.

01:26And the other night, we had some possums running along the balustrade on the balcony.

01:30Yeah, that was cute.

01:31Was that owl a money box or was it just full of coins to weight it down?

01:34No, it was a money box.

01:35Right, so there's a plastic owl like one of the ones that you put up to scare birds away

01:40from, you know, crops or whatever it might be.

01:42And it was loaded with coins and the possums knocked it off and it just went crashing down

01:46to the ground level.

01:47Matt thought someone was breaking in.

01:49Yeah, it sounded like someone was throwing a bucket at a door.

01:52It was pretty loud.

01:54Yeah, we're just sitting here enjoying this beautiful day.

01:56It's all about gratitude and appreciating what we've got and inviting more of this glorious

02:01experience into our world.

02:03Very appreciative.

02:04And look, this is one of the things that a good house sits.

02:07When you've got them, you know you've got them.

02:09You just, you know a good one when you've got a good one.

02:11The little goldfish Diplo, he hasn't acted up at all.

02:14He's been really well behaved.

02:15Doesn't talk back.

02:17No.

02:18Super easy to look after.

02:19Doesn't cry for your attention.

02:21No.

02:22Doesn't interrupt during work meetings.

02:24And this is a great way for us to spend our lunch break.

02:26But one of the things that we do need to do as a part of looking after this property

02:30is wander the grounds and just pick up any sticks.

02:33Make sure that the veggie gardens and the orchards are weeded.

02:37There is also a need for us to pick up any of the fruit that's dropped.

02:41We're going to go around and have a look again today to see how that's going.

02:44Because they want fruit flies coming in and starting to take over the place.

02:47And outside of that it really is just rake the gutters that go down along the gravel driveway

02:52to make sure that the leaves are clear.

02:54Because if it rains they don't want the driveway getting washed away.

02:56Pretty simple.

02:57Oh and you know cleaning the filters on the water tanks too.

03:00Making sure that they're clear so that there's no build up of leaves blocking the flow of water

03:04and algae getting into them.

03:06So property maintenance more than pet sitting really.

03:08Diplo only needs about two minutes of attention a day.

03:10And this area is I think part of the fire management requirements.

03:15So we need to make sure that there's not too much in the way of wood that's combustible around the area.

03:22Yeah although we have had a bit of rain so it probably won't be an issue.

03:25If you haven't been out to the Glasshouse Mountains we're not too far away from that.

03:29And it is spectacular.

03:31If you are somewhere close make a trip out here because it's quite memorable I think.

03:36It is.

03:37I love it.

03:38And we may, we're going to see how we go with this.

03:40No promises.

03:41We are going to see 8Ball Aitken on Monday.

03:45We've got an intimate concert.

03:48There's I think probably 30 or 40 people that are going to be at the property.

03:51I hope that they're usually very very small gatherings.

03:548Ball's got some really good tracks worth checking out.

03:57We'll put a link to one of my favourite ones down the bottom there.

03:59Chrissy can choose her favourite and we'll put a link to that one in there too.

04:02We probably won't be able to publish it because it would be copyright.

04:05No, no, no.

04:06But what we can do is we can have a chat with 8Ball and see if we can do an interview.

04:10That'll be fun.

04:11So if we do find that he's happy to do that like we have with some of our other guests that we've had in the past.

04:16Then we'll share a bit of 8Ball's story.

04:18That'll be really interesting.

04:19That'll be totally different to anything we've done before.

04:21It will.

04:22He's not a cheesemaker or a winemaker so he's a music maker.

04:25Anyhow, my soup's getting cold.

04:27I'm going to let you go.

04:28We'll catch you on the next one.

04:29Take care guys.

04:30See ya.

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