Backyard blitz
‘Twas a fine sunny Saturday today so after our morning beach walk with Max we hit the garden.
Part of our backyard is (was) a bit overgrown - it looks nice enough, in a rambling, natural sort of a way, but we’d like to extend our decking out a bit and have a view of the lawn down the back. So we pulled some plants out: an ugly thing, a weird makeshift archway with an out-of-control banksia rose on it, and ivy. Lots and lots of ivy. Jayne spent about an hour pulling the ivy out from between the rocks in a retaining wall and there’s still heaps to go.
Tomorrow Jayne’ll finish the ivy, attack the snakepit, pull out another couple of bushes, and tidy everything up. I won’t be helping her because I’ll be going back and forth to the tip all day. We have three trailer-loads so far and there’ll be more tomorrow.
We’re loving having a big garden to play with. It’s therapeutic, satisfying, and tiring.
Max took this one for us.
Here’s Jayne showing the ivy who’s boss.
And here’s the remains of the ugly bush showing me who’s boss.
More tomorrow.
Sim - August 23, 2006, 10:39 am
I like Jayne’s new hat…nice and white.
although i think it would be better placed further back on her head!?