It's going to be a busy weekend...

The no-dig kits arrived... The picture really does not do justice to how much there is here! The kits are designed to fill the top half of the beds, so we have to fill the bottom half ourselves first. We have heaps of cardboard boxes to go in there - and putting them in there sure beats cutting them up for the recycling bin!

Hopefully we'll be ready to start planting some vegies by the end of the weekend. YAY!!!!

The health kick begins!

With only 6 and a bit weeks until my little man's Christening, I thought it time I got out the maternity wear and back into normal clothes!!! So diet time it is! Check out the haul of fruit & veg to get us on our way!


The landscaping has taken another step. The no-dig kits for our vegie gardens are due to be delivered tomorrow. Hopefully we can spend some time this weekend getting them all set up and ready to go.

I also bought some half wine barrels that were delivered last night. My hope for these is to get some dwarf fruit trees growing up on the decks. Very excited about that! I'm also going to use one to have a little kitchen herb garden outside the kitchen on the deck which should be very cool.

Oh and I learned today that when it says WARM water in the bread recipe, it doesn't mean water that's been boiled 10mins earlier in the kettle... today's bread was more of a Damper - but tasted great with some golden syrup :)

Bread

Check out the bread I made yesterday. I was pretty impressed with my efforts (even if the breadmaker did most of the work LOL!!!)


S2 wasn't so excited about it - here he is enjoying his vegemite sandwich...

The Fort - day 2

Day 2 of fort building, and Hubby was able to find a friend to be his 'adult helper'. The boys did some good work and the fort now has some sides and the 2nd storey floor.

The piles are diminishing...


The floor boards going down. Probably should have hired this mob to build the house. They're doing a much better job than our 'builders' did!


The foreman looking somewhat bored...

The Unfortunately Meme...

I read about this here. The idea is you google "unfortunately yourname" and get funny one-liners. I thought I'd have a crack but put a positive slant on it. So after googling "fortunately Linda" I got:

"fortunately - Linda never came back"...

Not quite the positive angle I was going for!

Here are some others that came up:

Fortunately, Linda had VIP access. As a professional dog walker and pet sitter, she hung out with celebrities in their bathrobes every day

Fortunately Linda's premonitions and her visit from the wise man on Bali have proved correct and there is something seriously wrong

Fortunately, Linda is patient (I laughed out loud at this one!)

The big bed swap

S1 had a bad night last night. He went to bed nicely, but had a bit of a freakout about midnight. Long story short, he was extremely restless but after a good dose of teething tablets (he's not teething but these things work great for irritability & restlessness too!!!) he settles in to a good sleep. On my pillow. In my bed.

I figured two can play at this game and headed in to his room for my sleep. He has a really comfy bed so I was ready for a good sleep. What I didn't realise is how horrible the plastic protector on the mattress is. It seems to suck the moisture right out of your body. I now have a massive alcohol-free hangover!

I'm glad we did this little bedswap as I now understand why he needs to drink so much in the mornings and why he often wakes up so miserable! I'm off later to get a handful of cheapish mattress protectors to go over the plastic to see if that improves things for him.

Oh and huge kudos for the teething tablets - worked a treat to stop his restless legs.

The Fort! and other backyard shenanigans...

The Fort

We decided to get the boys a fort for the backyard. Today Hubby decided he would start building. According to the instructions it is to take 12-16hrs with 1 adult + 1 adult helper. Hubby is still searching for an adult helper as I told him I'm more foreman material than helper.

Here is how it was delivered:


After the boxes were opened:


So far he has assembled the ladder, monkey bar and rock climbing wall. He has lined up a mate to come over tomorrow and be 'adult helper' so hopefully he can get stuck into the nitty gritty of it.

The backyard:

We spent Easter weekend levelling our mudpit and laying turf. Hubby & I did this on our own, and keeping in mind it rained most of the weekend and we have 2 kids, I'm pretty impressed with our efforts getting it done in 4 days. The turf is doing well - the photos were taken today so only 2 patches that might need replacing out of 150 isn't too bad!

Before (okay so the water wasn't that bad, and we had a side fence. This was the only unturfed pic I have on this computer):



Here are the afters... The tank looking things will eventually be vegie gardens. As you can see that's another weekend's work yet to be done :)






Fingers are crossed that the fence will be going in next week. Life will be so much easier when we can take S1 down with us and not spend the whole time retrieving him from the top of the retaining walls!!!

Wow how new am I?!

Well here I am. My first ever blog. I've never even kept a diary before so this is a whole new kettle of fish! Despite the optimistic name, it's unlikely I'll get daily posts happening - but you never know your luck.

We've just finished building a house so over the next couple of months I'll be updating the world on how we're going getting all the finishing touches done. Other than that it'll be whatever's on my mind.

Cheers for reading!