Thursday, May 31, 2018

Future path steps

I want to use these bricks, two by two, to make a path in the garden, like below.



20 May 2019:

I need to fill in the level with new soil and some gravel, but here they are, in place finally. I need to grow more greenery around them too.


Hula-girl flowers for the first time!

So wonderful to see! She's so pretty - the most delicate of pinks. She hasn't grown much since her repot last NovemberI can hardly wait to put her in the ground and see her grow bigger and lovely.





Wall linings go up



Sean doing his thing -

Divider down today -

Yesterday -

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Make a path

https://www.quikrete.com/athome/walkmaker.asp

Addition to verandah going up



Starting out as a foggy morning, the day became progressively more beautiful with the sunshine and warmth. The photo below shows this - taken at my workplace. One can see the clouds though building up for predicted rain.


P.S. No rain happened! I had to water the garden well when I arrived home. A very cold night it was too.

No windows - then windows!


I'll have to make that front garden nice, because now, we'll be looking at it! Veggies?
Gingers? Lots of foliage, and a path? Table setting maybe? Like this...


Maybe in the future...







Outside wall coming down, framing going up - building continues...

Young bloke called Sean on the job today, with Dylan and Rick. Sean is cutting up timber for the frame. Gradually, the new outside perimeter for the house is appearing.






Building mess!

Lots of dust and mess in the yard! Oh well - easily cleaned up and fixed, eventually, and the grass will regrow.

Second foggy morning so far this year (Autumn, Winter).





I want to use the above bricks to make a path in the garden. Two blocks equals one stepping stone, as it were, like THIS.



This mess is from Ashley's unfinished business!


The next day (30 May), 7.30am, and 4 degrees C - I'm also tired of working late and up early with these guys arrival!
It's very dry - the grass is looking brown - we haven't had a good rain for ages. I watered long and well last night but I still think we need some good water from above.



I think the garden will recover ok after the assault. It all regrows. The weather makes a difference too - once it's warm again and cleaned up, things will look better. A bit of rain would help things along...but not till my reno is finished!

It gets worse as the days go on...this is from the 30th May...


Gumleaves in the concrete path

Following THIS post from yesterday, Rick the Foreman sprinkled the gum leaves on the wet concrete of the path, as I asked, similar to Churchie's path, which is so pleasant.

Some photos of my path:







Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Pergola over front windows

Today I asked Cec if something like this could be built with my left-over timber from the slats.




View from Mum's place

How good would it be if I could go up, and cover that awful power-pole. I think that one is called 'Moira', as it's closest to me. 
The other two, which are closer to each other, have been dubbed 'Jenny' (on the other side of the road), and 'Anne' - the one closer to Mum's.




The concrete dries and the path is laid







Cec directs operations and trains the apprentice (Dylan) and the work-experience youngster (Luke, who schools at St. Edmunds):






I've asked Rick, the foreman, to put the eucalypt leaves on the wet concrete of the path later day. He has agreed to do this for me. I left him with a bunch of leaves which I brought home last night after tearing them off a tree in Oaklands Parade, near the kindergarten.

A little bit of 'Churchie' at home - there's a path near the Library which has this effect - the leaves from the overhanging tree must have fallen off and sprinkled on the path at some stage when it was wet. It looks lovely (see below).