Compost – Walk – Garden Bed – Present

Hello!!
The start of another week!
I saw a neat little snippet on making leaf mould compost on Gardening Australia and thought it looked dead easy.
It is.

It takes a while and I am considering finding a spot to do a few or a bigger area – then I can forget about them for 12 months, return and use.

Its not hard around here to find some wire.

There is still room in my basket – will have to collect a few more leaves. They are meant to be watered down if they aren’t already damp. After the torrential downpour of last night… mine were fine.

I’ll trim the cardboard back once I am done. (Translation – I was way too lazy to walk all the way back to the shed for a knife)(Plus we were heading out for a walk) 🙂
I put a cardboard ‘lid’ on it too… but will add some more leaves when I get a chance to find and collect more.

It was a pretty nice day mostly – a few spits here and there. Jeff has a couple of nights coming up at the hospital so we thought we should get out today for a hike.

We went opposite our usual route around Anniversary Bay. I was pleased about that… it just seems a little less agonising going backwards haha

A lot of the tracks up in the hills were like little streams. Plenty of runoff from last night.

Sometimes the water was hard to avoid!

Next time I will wear gaiters.

And heading to the ocean!

It was raining under that cloud – we didn’t notice it until we got to the beach and saw the rainbow

Husband at the end of the rainbow. Apparently no gold.

The tide was coming in but there was enough beach left to see some of the sand patterns -and before I had to put my camera away because of the rain!

So glad we got out! I can feel that winter padding melting away!!

Back home I convinced Jeff to help me put together the first layer of one of the new garden beds.

Pretty easy to do actually. I’ll use this one like a template to get my surface area right before the rest get made and assembled. I have to say… there was a fair bit of weight in this!!

I am pretty excited about it – can’t wait to get them all into place and move on with making the area look nice.

I got a present today!!
Jeff has moved way past flowers and chocolates.
I got a parang!! I’d read about them in my ‘Biggles Books’ but never thought I’d be wielding one!!

He said he was sick of watching me hack away at things with my little tiny axe haha.
I’ll report in at the end of the week to let you know if I still have all my limbs or not!!!
Keen to get out there and test her out!

Nice leather sheath and all!!

Did anyone else get a big sharp tool to start their week??
Lets face it. A huge improvement on the cat-wee incident!
This week is looking good!

Cheers!!