Photo by T
The new garden, sans plants
Retaining wall - set to be demolished ... sometime
Sunflower - not quite in bloom yet
Where the floorboards in the dining room meet the tiles in the kitchen
'Matoes
footprints!
There's spuds in there
The seedlings, all ready to go in.
floorboards near kitchen - showing water damage. This bit should sand out.
These boards will be replaced
Little baby pumpkin flowers
Loungeroom floorboards
Dining room floorboards
It's the same height as me now
Hallway floorboards
Main bed floorboards
Pulled out a lot of vegetation around here
Second bed carpet
Little baby tomato. I believe this is a Black Russian
The backyard, all mown and planted
The kids' garden is thriving
The lovely purple carpet in the second bedroom. What a shame it's going!
The pansies are going gangbusters!
More black russians
The entire water damaged area
Looking through the apple tree
Upside-down tomatoes! This is a very rare variety ;)
Close up of the bad board
Figs!
Water damage - these boards will be replaced
Lounge room
Apricots!
Second bedroom floorboards
T's room floorboards
Main bedroom
Bathroom
Kitchen - these orange benchtops will be painted
Lounge, before we started ripping up the carpet
Dining room
Backyard - with no grass
Path from garage
Backyard, showing garage
Front porch. Can anyone identify the tree? Are they peaches?
Front yard
Floor plan. T is in bed 3, Hugh in bed 2
Champers ... and keys!
Keys!
View from the front door - carpet is all up
Mum's working
Paul working hard with the screwdriver, pulling out staples
Triffids!
Liam with the pincers, pulling out staples
Loungeroom with the tacks all up
Hallway with the carpet and tacks up
Piles of carpet in the loungeroom
Potatoes!
Dining room - carpet and tacks up
Pumpkin!
The bit to be replaced - most of the tacks are out, just to make it easier to get the boards out
Little tiny weeny pumpkin flowers
Sunflower!
The backyard - with grass!
Under the hills hoist, and the garage
And it has a little baby sunflower too
This is where T's cubby will go
Corn!
Room for vegie patches
The three mysterious outbuildings
And a roma tomato - nearly ripe
Back porch - with a bunch of carpet, and boxes of books
Mysterious outbuilding #1: soon-to-be chook shed
The mysterious innards of mysterious outbuilding #1
Mysterious outbuilding #2: Soon-to-be chook feed holder
Mysterious outbuilding #3: Soon-to-be compost heap
Lovely sunny backyard
Herbs to be grown under the hills hoist, we think
Side gate, looking back towards the house
Paul's still working on those staples ...
Front door, sans screen
Those wooden slats will be coming off in short order
The pile of carpet grows ...
Laying the carpet out so it can be cut up and dragged out
And grows ... !
Carpet, tacks, staples ... all gone!
Nice clean floors, ready to be polished
The main bedroom
Second bedroom - some stains in here, but they'll hopefully sand out
Dining room floors, ready to be polished
Main bedroom - sanded
Bed 3 - sanded
Bed 2 - Look Ma! No stains!
The dining room, boards replaced and sanded
The replaced section
Dining and Lounge - showing the new boards
New boards
Freshly painted kitchen bench
Not orange any more!
A new place to hang my hat ...
The very beginnings of the chaos
Loungeroom floors
Kitchen bench - a little rough, thanks to the roller, but perfectly serviceable. And not orange!
Considering new cupboard doorknobs too ...
Some more chaos - and our beautiful floors
Spot the thing that doesn't belong
One unhappy and very confused cat
The chaos continues unabated
We have an office!
The office
T's room
The new loft bed
Hail!
More hail!
Lots n lots of hail!
Feel like doing some sunbaking? No?
wall, sans ugly thing
I can fit more bookcases in now! yay!
Ugly thing ... sans wall.
Pansies, spinach, two varieties of strawberries, roly-poly carrots, peas, pak choy, choi sum.
Vegies ... and pansies. Nice :)
Our first egg from maude
