Well I’m one quarter of the way through the year with this little photo challenge and still going reasonably strong. Following on from last week’s hard yakka in the backyard, we’ve gotten a few tube stock plants from the Greening Australia Nursery at The Gap. It’s on the other side of Brisbane and a fair [...]
It’s a sad day in blogging world when the most exciting thing I can think of to write about is my new freezer. :$ You can blame Tina for that though, since she was desperate to see a photo of it. LOL
After years of putting up with a tiny freezer space in my fridge, I [...]
To be quite honest, this morning I woke up and couldn’t think of much to be grateful for. My muscles were sore and stiff from yesterday’s work shovelling pine bark into buckets, carting them up the driveway and up the back slope to the new garden bed. It was hard, repetitive work made worse by [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about The Great Outdoors Project, most likely because I felt we weren’t really making any progress with it at all. Over the summer months, we’ve given the hole digging for the spa a miss - mainly because a) it is stinking hot and b) every time it [...]
They say necessity is the mother of all invention. So what do you do when you have the wreck of an old VW Beetle in your backyard, some pipes and a piece of corrugated iron and you don’t want to pay for removal fees?? Why you build a water feature of course! I snapped this [...]
Yes I could have put up my own curtain rod and hung my own picture frames. But I’m grateful that the man about the house did it all for me, so that I didn’t have to. He’s a bit camera shy, so I had to get a little creative with this shot.
It’s a sweltering one in Brisbane today…..the weather bureau forecasted 32 deg.C for a top in my area today. Considering it was 31 deg.C at 10am, there was never any doubt that it would climb higher towards the afternoon. We’re now sitting at 38 deg.C and not enjoying it in the slightest. The cats are [...]