Wow! You do have your work cut out for you, but you seem to have an excellent plan. I was in your neck of the woods in December and just fell in love. Perhaps someday I will make it back. I should love to see you and your place then. In the mean time I will enjoy your progress in pictures. When do you expect your horses to move in?
I love that all the wood will get used. Oregon is a wood place, too. So many clever people. Even in the city here. If you post that you have a tree to get rid of, people will fall all over themselves to have it. However, we are a cool cloudy wood place right now. Many Scandinavians settled here as it is heavy with wood and fish and water in this region. Summer is lovely, though.
But I want so much to see more of your country. In my youth, I never imagined that I would ever go there due to politics. To visit and see its progress was so exciting.
Your phrasing makes me ask, are you South African originally or a transplant?