Progress

All of the rain sadly put a delay to our retaining wall/garden bed completion over the weekend. So instead we made a start on our verandah orchard. We are trying our hand at dwarf fruit trees and have started out with a Lychee, Bowen Mango, Rincon Avocado and a Lemon/Lime Splitzer (both fruits grafted on the one tree). I'm unsure how the avo will go as everything I've read suggests we need 2 varieties, but the lady at the nursery insisted we didn't so I guess we'll see!

Here's some pics of the orchard and our little 'helper'. Mum & Dad came over yesterday arvo and did some gardening and ironing for us (thanks!). Dad also gave me some strawberry plants which I have put around the base of some of the trees. Apparently he approves of the location so has half a dozen more to give me. YAY! Nothing beats strawberries straight from the garden (except maybe mulberries straight from the tree... which is coming closer to Spring).





Mum has also been busy. I purchased some hand-dyed wool on a whim, then presented it to her to create something. It was a challenge as I could only buy 200g and it was 12ply, but she found a pattern in an old old book (some may say Vintage) and has made a start on a jumper for S2. Here's a progress shot. You can't see clearly in the pic, but the centre panel is pretty cabling. The green jumper is one she made earlier - the colour really suits S2.



Oh and we're very excited as the fenceman finally showed up this morning. I've heard lots of noise outside and can see some holes for posts. Hooray!

Goings on

First up a name change - it was overly optimistic to think there would be a daily tale to share! So welcome now to The Big Green House.

Another busy week behind us with some internal organising and some more fort work completed. I finally found some time to make a start on my craft room. After moving it it became the dumping room for all things homeless.

It's still obviously a work in progress but it's getting there...

Here's what the boys did while I cleaned...

And having found my sewing machines under the mess, here is a pincushion and a mattress protector pad for S1 that I have managed to make.


Hubby made some progress on the fort also. Not too much left to do now - the monkey bars, rock wall, picnic table, awning on the sundeck and some fiddly pretty bits. S1 was helpful as always, and demonstrated why he is constantly covered in bruises and dinged up ankles - look Mum no hands!



Finally some fun on the swings with Dad





Here's what S2 thought of it all.

Whoops - been a while!

Well it only took a week for my true colours to show, but here's an update of some of our achievements.

Hubby made some progress with the fort. Now just the rest of the roof/awning to put on, attach the slide, ladder, monkeybars and rock wall, put on the picnic table, and build and attach the swings. Should be all done for S2's Baptism in June!



This weekend saw my Uncle and Hubby starting work on a retaining wall/planter box to tidy up the strip down the side of our neighbour's house. They did a great job and have booked in a future weekend to finish things off. We have decided to put a flat plank along the top of the whole thing to create a little seat-type feature. Not sure how great the health & safety was for the project though - S1 managed to do himself a pretty good injury while out with them!

A productive day

Managed to get a fair bit of work done today. The best part about that is that it means I don't have to stress about not having it done for the whole long weekend! Hubby had today off and got some more fort construction happening. With a bit of help from a 2nd set of hands tomorrow he should be able to finish it off. Which means hopefully we can get stuck into the vegie gardens.

No sign of our fence man. He was meant to be here last week, then promised this week. Guess there's always tomorrow...