Planted the second (pink) climbing rose + updates

I'm not sure it's going to do well here...

11 Sept, 2018:

It seems to be budding which is a good sign, although this has happened with other plants here before, but they don't last long after. I'm still keen to relocate this one, or maybe just buy another to plant in companion with the white one at the front.

Pink buds!

22 Sept, 2018 - Buds open!

25 Sept - Flared a bit.

A few days later...

Wed 26 Sept

27 Sept 2018

28 Sept

New buds - 

29 Oct - second flowering:

7 Nov -

23 Nov 2018: It seems to be doing ok. I will have to keep an eye on it for black spot and fertilise it, but for now, she is growing quite well.

2 Dec 2018 - Some good looking growth -

5 Dec 2018:

Jan 28, 2019:  I've been watering it with a milk mixture lately. Maybe it likes that.

22 April, 2019: First bud of the new season.

10 Nov 2019 - Lovely little buds, proving there is life in the old girl yet -

13 Nov 2019 - Seems to like it here well enough.

More buds to open - 

19 Nov 2019 - I feel like the drought has caused it to flower uproariously, before it dies due to lack of water.

7 Dec 2019 - 

Messes yet to be cleaned up

 Enough said. I'm trying to do a little piece each day to sort it all out.

Eclipse - Blood Moon

Did not sleep well for back-ache so intermittently kept an eye on this century's famous 'long-eclipse' this morning. And all of a sudden, the mood disappeared! The sparkly dot to the left side, is Mars, we are told.

Little vignettes of the living room + Oct 2019 update

“Red is the great clarifier - bright, cleansing, revealing. It makes all colors beautiful.” Diana Vreeland.

16 June, 2019 -

1 Oct 2019 - Before I cleaned up the mess, and after moving furniture around.

Saturday lawn done, and removed one garden bed

I mowed the lawn yesterday (Saturday 28th), just to tidy it up and suck up some leaves. It was mostly dust and a few straggly headed weeds. I like the verge to be neat too.

I was trying for an instagram-beauty look in these shots. Didn't work, but I like them anyway.

Also removed one of the front beds - will reuse later for vegies, when the garden is done and the carport is finished. The chookas enjoyed poking through the leftovers. When it dries a bit more, I shall lift the dirt out onto elsewhere in the garden.

Compare the garden

July 24, 2017

July, 2018

Inside the fence view: April, and May 2018. Stuff has grown!

Chaddy-Waddy

This green-eyed monster, Mum's other dog, the sweet n lovely Chad, looks like an Elizabethan, all rugged up in his little fur-lined winter coat, with its ruffly collar!