It's been almost six months since we moved into our house, but the garden has been an ongoing project with the aim to have it ready for the summer. Well, today was the big day that we finally finished it, and it looks like a beautiful summerstyle garden with an NZ flavour!
It all started back in November as we pulled out all the old trees and weeds. The following few months we dug up the soil and pulled out the weeds (which I've continued to do until yesterday!). We planted an 'Iceberg' rose bush (Hajime's homage to Mum's garden in Mangakoea) and put down a stone pathway down the side of the house. Last weekend we built a small deck (or step?) for the living rooms ranchslider. And finally today we got busy, planting two trees (including an NZ cabbage tree), 25 small trees along the fenceline, and laying out patches of grass - I had a lot of fun cutting the grass patches to make it fit-kind of like doing a jigsaw puzzle. Now we just need to wait about a month for the grass to establish itself in the soil and then it's all good. Big thanks to Hajime for all the time and effort he put into the job - it was nice to have a pro directing me!
After all that hard work we had our first (of many to come) BBQ of the summer season. It really felt good to relax in the warm evening with a cold beer and a grill full of meat.....might have to have another one next week!
Not much else happening - just having a lazy Golden Week (4 public holidays in a week!), enjoying the nice weather and watching NBA and Super 14 (Go Chiefs!!). We just got a new couch so I'm enjoying lounging around on it, watching games and movies. Joshua is doing great and has a new favourite game called "kick daddy in the face". Maybe my stubble tickles his feet, but whatever it is, he really enjoys it! He also seems to be growing out of clothes after wearing them about 2 times!
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