Was thrilled when I saw that Gordon had made up the vegie boxes, he'd also half filled one with horse manure from Becky's place.
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| 2 x vegie boxes |
No progress on the "laundry" or fallen down fence as yet. And, more blasted bees, this time returned to the back of the house. We really must plug up those holes.
Was also pleased that the 2 x fruit trees that we'd moved to make room for the vegie boxes have thus far survived - although the poor almond which I had moved first while dormant seems a goner - as the green twigs have turned a decided brown, and no buds/leaves have emerged
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| two transplanted fruit tree looking happy enough |
The lemon trees are also looking good, and lots more irises have flowered, most a combination of yellow and light purple, and a few dark purple - all very nice
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| one of the purple irises |
Had fuelled up at the Calder Service station with both petrol and naughty sausage rolls - which I had assumed would be a mid morning snack - but they actually did us for lunch (must admit they were jumbo size) - so we "worked through"
We'd brought the ute up with the cut up red gum sleepers from Alex, so the 1st job was unloading them into the wood shed. We also brought up a small hall table today (ebay again) which I had picked up from Seaford this morning, and one of the large mirrors (ex crappy pictures) to go over our bedroom mantle. And that was all, I would have liked to bring up the "patio" table and chairs, and the plants that I'd bought - but no room... couldn't safely tie them down, and the cabin was full with other stuff ie some food, the speaker system which I'd got with my Dick Smith voucher, and a clothes bag.
Then to the next job which was gently sanding the brown doors and frames in the hallway. I'd told Justin that I was sick of telling people that we were still up to the hallway in the house - however it takes a long time, first plugging the holes/cracks in the plaster and skirting etc, then sanding back, more plugging, painting more painting etc. I longed to move onto the next room - even though I'm not actually "allowed" to do any of the painting (Justin is very fussy) So I was a bit surprised that I was allowed to do some sanding (which in my opinion was the boring bit) Lucikly we didn't have to get back to raw wood, just a light sand to get rid of the rough bits - and yes I didn't do it properly - was a bit uneven, probably won't be asked back again.
We also tried my new speakers - hooked up J's Mp4 player and later his phone - so had a bit of music
After the sanding I went back outside to the garden, watering all the newly planted plants (from 2 weeks ago) which took a while -as the water pressure is quite low, and the garden is quite large, so it's a slow process to fill the watering can, walk to the relevant plants and water, and then go back and refill, and repeat and repeat etc. Oh for a hose!!!(and better pressure) but we don't have the proper connections to attach a hose anyway. And after watering more judicious weeding etc
Justin commenced on the white undercoat while I was outside (I'm still not allowed to paint)
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| Painting Man #1 |
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| Painting Man #2 |
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| Painting Man #3 |
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| Painting Man #4 |
Gordon had come to visit and say hello, don't think we had any other visitors on Saturday. We'd also dropped in on Becky on the way here, but she was asleep. Brian was there again so we had a chat with him. And I went to David's to buy some eggs - and he told me a story how years ago a horde of green caterpillars had marched through his chook yard, but didn't come out the other side, and that the subsequent eggs had bright red yolks!! Sounds awful; he said they tasted the same , but were somewhat offputting to look at
Didn't really look at the time, but it was getting on to 6.30pm when we stopped - what workers!! J had pretty much finished off the undercoat for the 2 doors and surrounds - and they look great!
Went up to the verandah for a well deserved white wine - it had been a warm day - and sat and watched the world - or more accurately Brayden from next door go by - I called out that I was watching her and gave her a bit of a start.
Dinner at the Empire - tried a new Black Estate Red shiraz with of course one of their chicken parmas
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Had a chat with Enzo & Ros, an watched Wales and England in the 1/4 Finals of the Rugby - with Justin trying to explain the basic rules to me
Back home and watched Up in the Air on the portable dvd player (which I had seen when we flew to Europe last year)
Woke up to a relatively "mild" morning - didn't even need a jumper, although I did put a jacket on to go to the IGA and get the Age. In fact the Age was the only purchase we made at the IGA this weekend - quite unprecedented - we normally go quite a few times over a weekend. Made Justin and myself an egg in the basket on the bbq for breakfast, and read the paper - very pleasant.
Then back to work - J to more painting - this time the 2nd coat:-
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| Painting Man #5 |
And I was out in the garden again, I had thought that I would like to start continuing on with the brick edged path that Mark & Justin had started a couple of months ago. However I was sidetracked, as I'd seen there were heaps of weeks in the plot by the back door - plus some sort of brick platform - so I started weeding there and also cleaning up some bricks
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| I'd already started clearing a bit before I took the photo |
And then there was another large bed nearby choked by wandering jew (such a pejorative name for a weed)
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| wandering jew #1 |
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| Wandering Jew #2 |
Clearing it I discovered some lovely lilies
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| some sort of lily - no idea what! |
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| cleared section #1 |
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| cleared section #2 |
- and then moved onto the awful chicken wire fence with barbed wire etc under the huge cypress tree
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| bring it down! |
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| what a mess! |
As it bisected the garden a little - and we want to be able to put up Fraser's rope ladder - and eventually build some sort of cubby house. I started off pulling the wire off by hand, carefully un-twining it - but ended up getting some wire cutters as that was easier. Pulled most of it down and filled Gordon's trailer with lots of weeds and the barbed wire (sent him a text warning him that there was barbed wire).
Will put the rest of the wire in the trailer next time we go up - as although he "wall had come down" I still had to disconnect it from some of the posts etc
Justin had finished his painting by this stage - he completed the 2nd coat of the 2 x doors in the hall way and surrounds - looks great - but he thinks that they need a 3rd coat
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| painted doorway -and new hall table |
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| looking spiffy #1 |
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| looking spiffy #2 (at an angle) |
After J had finished painting I invited him outside to serenade me while I continued to bring down the wall
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| our troubador |
Filled up Gordon's trailer again - and as apparent - it was a lovely sunny day - quite warm also!
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| Full trailer (again) |
Wraps for a late lunch, a bit of a tidy up -and yes the water in the kitchen still doesn't work - has that tank run out of water?? So we had to wash our hands, get water to wash the dishes etc from the bath in the bath room - as although the taps in the bathroom sink work, the pipes are shot -and will not drain. We have got to get plumbing organised...
Needed to have a bit of a sit down and rest before we came back to Melbourne
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| post lunch relax (out of overalls) |
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