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Happy New Year!

Stay tuned because our next projects are a balustrade and bathroom renovations.

Best spire in all the lands

We finally decided on Manor Red for the exterior paint. Over the course of a number of hot weekends and with the help of Pa and Darrin, Mark completed the painting of all exterior gutters, fascia, eaves and... a gable and spire. It makes such a difference!

The only thing left to do is make a new home for gnome in the front garden.

Have now planted a posse of Iceberg rose standards and gardenias in the rear garden outside the dining window. The thought is that we can look out from the dining table onto a cluster of roses. Just need to replace some irrigation hosing, place down more pine bark, plant a few more flowers and the gardens will be complete. In the meantime, my vegetable and herb gardens are doing very well and I have my first red tomatoes on the vine. Very cool!

Secret garden

Stage 2 of gardening has commenced. Operation T-reemove successfully completed and now the landscaping begins. The hedges have been planted. In the end I selected pittosporum "golf ball" with ficus trees as highlight. Our tree removal conditions have now been planted. Have also made the beginning of a lavendula hedge with English lavender which smells so sweet. Also have a feature yucca at the door.

We have started laying pine bark and are nearly finished the painting. Finishing touch will be the erection of a gable and giving gnome a new home! Can't wait to finish.

Raw cotton and...

The tree and stump have gone and moved on to next project with a lick of paint to the exterior. After one coat, its already looking great. Now we just have to decide on what colour to paint the guttering, gable and spire... thinking green. MT is in charge of getting sample pots to assist with our selection. Whatever the case it will set us apart from our neighbours who have the same exterior as us.

So this week we are working on fixing the gable, buying a spire and finishing the painting of the exterior... and oh, the fence! which is leaning a little bit more to the left.

Ding, Dong! The Tree is gone... but the stump remains

Now the tree is gone just have to work on getting the stump removed... then i can start on making a frontscape to my house with lovely hedges, lawn and green, green, green. Yeah!

Next project, bathrooms! In the process of researching designs for our main and ensuite. Stay tuned!

A special shout out to a special friend who has something BIG happening this week. We love you and have our fingers crossed.

Tree, Two, One, None!

Huge update: the tree has gone. I cant wait to revel in our neighbours' excitement. We should all hold hands and skip in an anti-clockwise direction around the trunk.