These guys were here bright and early this morning.
They had trenches to dig.
Tricky place to get into along the edge of the house.
But then it was easy.
I'm not sure how deep those trenches have to be or why, but the one closest to the house was very deep.
And then the Termite Man arrived and started squirting something on top of the sand.
(You can tell I have no idea about the building process or the pink string!)
But of course there is always a process.... the building inspector has to inspect the trenches before the concrete gets poured.( course he does)
The men had finished digging at 12.30 pm and the Inspector arrived at 6pm.
I'm amazed he could see the trench by then !
The concreters have another job tomorrow so won't be back until next week.
We are getting a bit concerned about these two beautiful trees. Neither of them are showing any signs of bursting into bud or bloom.
The one on the left is a weeping elm and the bigger one outside the kitchen window is a flowering cherry. They are both fabulous trees and we would be very sad to lose them. We (I) even renegotiated our new room so that we could save the tree!
Bill's been chain sawing all day.!!!Again!!
It's a wonder the neighbours haven't complained.
It was Lavender Walk planting day today.
I started with such high expectations, but by the end of the afternoon I had only planted half of them.
I managed to dig all 76 holes though and planted 44 little plants.
I will get out there early tomorrow and do the rest.
This is my measuring implement.
That's about as high-tech as it gets for me in the garden.
I used it to get some sort of equal distance from the edges.
The rest is just eyeballed !
Love these flowers at the moment......
This glorious weather and outdoorsy stuff is taking it's toll.
We are worn out by the end of the day and neither of us can be bothered cooking.
We desperately need a housekeeper....preferably one who can cook!
This daffodil is blooming it's head off right now. I planted these bulbs in a pot months ago. I'm so glad I did.
The time has come for these plans to be transformed into reality for us.
Our builders started by removing the window.....
....and the split system (outside part).....
......then moved the whole window back again after exposing whatever was needed for concreting and building.
We were happy that they chose to do that. It means that we can still have light coming through while they are working on our new room. (still not sure what to call it yet. In fact we're not even sure what we'll put in there!!)
Concrete Man due at 7.30am tomorrow.
I prepared these little Munstead lavenders for planting tomorrow by giving them a huge drink.
There are 76 of them. Two lavender walks and 6 either side of the rose arbour.
Bill has had the chain on the chainsaw sharpened twice since he bought it!!
It has been going non -stop.
It seems as though the trees and shrubs that we thought may have been okay, have finally decided to turn their toes up.
Scrappy Trip ( well, mine's not entirely scrappy to be honest ) has been my latest quilting project.
I need to have 45 blocks......
Lots of left over Fig tree though.... and I can't bring myself to throw out the labels!
We have had a fabulous day.
Not quite time for an explosion of daffodils but gorgeous nonetheless.The climate is considerably cooler there so the bulbs bloom much later.
We loved these quirky handles on the gates.....
...and came home with these. The only thing in the shop with ruby in it's name!
We celebrated our wedding anniversary today and plan to make a ruby garden.
We've already collected these to start us off....
Erica... Ruby Glow..
And some eremophilas.... Mallee Ruby
We already have this grevillea (name unknown) but it looks ruby to me!!!! And I have taken cuttings to propagate some more.
This is a bit too red I think, but I took 36 ( to be precise) cuttings of this salvia called Royal Bumble. In the catalogue it is described as having glowing red velvet flowers.
I could have taken many more but didn't have enough pots. When we start planting our trees etc I will have plenty.
This cushion is made from Miss Kate....
With just a bit of Ruby....
Amy has taken it...( to remind her of home she says...!!!)
Now....where to put this Ruby garden.......
