YES!! All's done!

Yep, all the pavings done!

Here are the photos - Enjoy. Just ignore weeds, mess, etc!

 

The path from house to the Chook Palace... I am never without my furry assistants around

 

At the future Vegie Garden Zone - all paved, just waiting to have the weedy holes to be levelled and the garden beds on them then I can go happy sowing/planting vegies, herbs, etc!

 From the Chook Palace to the house...Almost a straight paved line, eh?

 

The Compost area - just need to make slats to keep dogs off the compost mix!

 

The end of Compost area - we have ensure that the pavers goes under the fence so there would be no chooks digging under to get to the delicious fresh tucker...

  

See the contrast of new and old pavers! We got the factory seconds pavers for great price and it looks good. Now my challenge is to keep weeds out of the gaps between pavers!! Any tips or tricks, apart from pulling them every day? :D

  

The trampoline view over the paved area... 

 

 

Not bad for two amateur landscapers... :D  - Your comments?

Sorry we cannot accept any commissions at any time!

Cheers till later!

Mayhem in Chook Zone!

An ungrateful gummy tree decided to remind us that he's a bit taller, stronger and 'above' us...

By dropping one of its arms... oh I mean, its huge branch!

And bent two sections of fencing down and out...

Fortunately for this tree, as no living creatures were harmed so it will remain there - aloof and outside our boundary fence. For it's our neighbour's tree! 

Our chooks were so excited and were telling me all about it with 'bokbok book bok!' and flurry of feathers, etc.

The flock - minus 4 (they were camera-shy chooks)

Roy Boy, our glorious rooster!

 

 

And his very annoying offspring, Boy Orange (he really wants to take over Roy Boy's flock!) - anyone looking for a lovely rooster? Let me know...

One of our two original chooks, Leghorn cross - a very reliable layer

The branch have long ago chopped up and into mulch for our trees. The fencing will be mended very soon - we are awaiting to get details from our insurance company about when it will be done.

Lesson you could gain from here - Get your insurance sorted out before letting any tree, whether in our out of your boundary fence, drop a branch that cause a considerable damage to your property!

Cheers till later!

Finally here!

My dear readers, please excuse the mishmash postings for a while while I catch up here...

We were blessed with beautiful weather by God of Landscaping - so we decided to do something here...

PAVING!

I am pretty sure I heard him rolling on 'heavenly floor' laughing hard at this - us ignorant and puny heathens wanted to pave!!

I also think there may have been a meeting held up there between gods (of landscaping, gardening, and weather) - debating whether they should stop us here.

We need to have a path between our house and that chook palace. We had few years to think it over and we finally decided it's time - we'd do it ourselves!

See that pile of gorgeous dirt - that's a pile of brown gold for me and God of Vegetables! It consists 2 years worth of compost, from the old garden beds that we've demolished to make way for 6 new vegie beds!

What new bed? This!

We will do an experiment called Wicking Bed with them and will have them standing close to the path - so kids have no excuse for not collecting, munching or planting more vegies! Bwahaha...

You can see where we've marked the path, from the old paved area to the house. There's a dip half way there and we hope God of Pond will bless us with a pond in a year or two.

His most loyal subject is working hard here - scooping the precious dirt so we can prepare the area for more paving and build beds on it.

DAY TWO

(Please understand that we're not blessed with super powers the half-gods seemed to have been bestowed by their godly parents, unfortunately so when we say day two, it doesn't mean the right next day. We're working on this mostly on weekends.)

Hallelujah, an outline of path is revealed! We're just using edges to ensure the grass would not begin its invasion here.

Putting in edgers was a challenge itself - curves and degree of slope here. But we did it, we know our God of Landscaping would be so proud of us!

We're having a row of 6 pavers across so there'd be enough room to walk over...

I am sure the God of Landscaping and God of Gardening are fuming with us as we may have broken many laws here - remember we're a bunch of ignorant peasants who have no experience with this!

More digging here - see the old beds are gone. The ground is quite hard after only 5 cm were dug up. Mattocks are used heavily here...

We're also having the compost area renovated...

Not much to see from this end, but just wait for Day 3 photos which will be proclaimed tomorrow!

We do hope the God of Landscaping is pleased with our offering!

Cheers till later!