Darn Wind....Grrrrrrrr

For a week and a half now we have been trying to get back into the back yard to put up one of the two remaining sheds, but, will the weather co-operate with us...NO!...not on your nelly!!!  Yes, yes, i know that Wallan actually means 'windy' but do they have to prove it every single day!!.......I am not strong enough to hold the shed up while Tony puts it together.....who knows where i could end up if the wind takes hold of it.
I think we have only had one windless day, and you guessed it, that was the day we were busy and couldn't do the sheds.

One good thing is that i have managed to get two more panels of fence painted, we ended up buying a suction hose that went straight into the paint...trouble is we only bought a 4 ltr tin of paint.

This morning we had big plans....got up early, had breaky, went outside and moved the appropriate pieces into the back yard from the sideway, and while we were doing this the wind decided that it would blow harder and harder. so what a futile effort that was.

Ah Ha!!...Master Tony had a cunning plan up his sleeve.....he decided that now would be a good time to put up the extra shelf i wanted in the pantry....yay!!!  talk about a all day job, started around 10.30ish and finished at 9pm...long day, poor thing didn't even stop to have lunch...why didn't i make him any i hear you ask?....cos i was out with a girlfried who'd come to visit :)   Anyway he has done a superb job, :))   I love having a handy husband.   Now the big job tomorrow is to try and re-arrange everything in it.

Change of subject, but we are still waiting to hear from Porter Davis in regard to having our 3month inspection, which should have been done at the very begining of December....a phone call is in order i think!

Half compeleted flooring in the dogs shed

completed floor

The new extra shelf :)

what a mess...wait until tomorrow when i take every thing out :(...what a HUGE job.

Garden shed....

Today we finally got time to put up the first of our 3 sheds in the back yard....this one was going to be the 'guinea pig' for them all as it would be the easiest to put into place.

Firstly it took the 3 of us girls to hold it while Tony put the first wall together....(Adrian was asleep after morning shift), then Kell and I (well mainly Kell) to hold the rest of the walls, once it was together the fun part was trying to manoeuver it onto the crushed rock and into position, it didn't help that we could only manhandle it from two sides as the shed has the house at its back and the spa fence on one side, but up it is, now we only have to put the flooring in and my Chrissy decorations can move in  :)
I still need to paint the back fence before we start on the dogs shed in the back corner, hopefully i can get time to do it or at least start it on Thursday...tomorrow is a wipe out as i have a dog show and Tony is getting the paint on his way home from work anyway.

This one gives you an idea on how far we had to move it back into the corner

The finished product

Roses....

Purchased our 'Blushing Pink' Iceberg standards onWednesday along with some French Lavander......Planted them all by myself with Tonys help...and blow me down if the next day (thurday) didn't blow a gale...am pleased to announce that they are all still in the ground.  :)

Part 1 of the garden done....part 2 will be awhile.

Next job will be the putting together of the 3 sheds, lets hope we get all the pieces on the right shed.


Merry Christmas to all who have been reading my blog.
May you get your hearts desire.

You will have to excuse the mess from next doors build :(

Nature Strip....

We went shopping today for some roses and lavanders for the new garden bed....found what we wanted. french lavander and pale pink iceberg roses :)
When we got home we nearly fell over....the concreters were back and were doing our naturestrip....yes! two months after doing the driveway they returned...as you can tell we had no idea they were coming, even if they had let us know we wouldn't have been holding our breath waiting for them.

Well!!!.....the third garden bed caused all sorts of headaches for us....literally.
While putting in the starpickett to hold the sleepers in place, we have managed to pierce the gas  main...yep...fair and square in the middle of the bloody pipe...ggggrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!
It took two hours for someone to come and repair it after we rang them to report it, I was so worried about the dogs and cats, especially Mia who has 3 weeks to go before she has her puppies.  Thankfully the courtyard area wasn't affected.
So, what should have taken a few hours ended up taking all day but at least it is all done now, I am going to go out later and plant our roses and lavanders.
All that will leave is the path and grassed area, definately a job for after xmas.

the offending gas pipe, don't you just love the depth it is?

the granitic sand on the nature strip

Garden....

Yay!!!! Finally we have made a big start on the front......we are now in the possession of a garden!!......as you know Tony made up the external edges for the garden beds, so yesterday we ordered in some soil and went shopping for the plants for the garage bed.
For my birthday last year Adrian and Ashleigh gave me a voucher from Chris and Marie's, thought i might have trouble spending it there as they really don't have a great variety of plants just lots of what they do have...but, no, I had no trouble at all, in fact i had to add some (lots) of $$ to it.
Ended up buying 4 standard white Iceberg roses, 4 Hidecote lavendar bushes and a Pittostrum, went for the slightly bigger plants, hence the greater expence.

Back home we then had to put the soil into the beds after working out our spaces...laid some pipe in preparation for a watering system, then plant the 'plants'...doesn't sound much but it did take us a few hours...okay. so we stopped to talk to some neighbours for awhile :)
The only thing else we need to do (besides hook up the watering system) is to get some topping for the beds, but that won't be done unitl all the beds have been finished.

The study garden now has soil in it but it won't get its tennants until i get to my mums to collect my plants from her...(she has been looking after my plants for almost 18 months  now...thaks mum), hopefully we can get there in the new year.  This bed will have Gardenias in it.

The third garden bed is yet to be started but I think that that will be remedied today as Tony is on his way to pick up the flanged star picketts for the bed.  This bed...well i'm not too sure what is going in here...maybe some more roses and lavanders to match the other side.

Front yard.....

The front yard has finally been started, I know, it took us long enough...
...yesterday Tony started on the garden bed along side the drive, so far he has levelled it out and put the sleepers around it to form its border, today he thought he had the easy job, doing the garden bed under the study window, so he levelled it, started putting the sleepers in and ran into concrete...yep the overspill from the pour, now the garden bed looks like its a grave for a long tall skinny person, what should have taken about a half hour to do ended up taking him three quaters of the day, at least he found a use for all the dirt he took out of the bed, it now has made a level walkway to the side gate..hooray!!

So, what did i do while he was doing this, i hear you ask...decided that i really should give the side gate and front part of the fence its second coat..glad i did cos it looks much nicer now, I also finished off the fence in the spa area then gave it its second coat too.

Came back from painting the spa fence to find that Tony was just finishing off tidying the front yard...it looks so much better.

Yesterday we also finally put up our house number, so now you can find us :)

...then...luxury, we finally got around to having a spa....was it good...no, heavenly was more like it.

garage garden bed...minus dirt, thats for another day

study bed....note the where the concrete was....

the now level walkway to the side gate

our house number

tidied front yard

street view

the highly exciting painted fence

Gate...

Finally the fencing and gate for the spa have been finished, what we thought was going to be as easy job took a lot longer than we planned. Does it all work....yes, and it looks good too :)

Our lawn has come along really well