Out & About - Roma St Parklands

I was meeting for lunch at Roma St Parklands in the city one weekend (food post to follow!), so I got there early for a wander around.....

Vegie Garden

I am starting to get hopeful that I may finally get something other than peas & chilli's to grow to the edible stage in my vegie garden.....

the squash are beginning to flower.....

the eggplant are turning purple

and my cherry tomatoes are beginning to blush!

Fingers crossed they survive!!

New Gardens

We finally managed to make our back/side garden look presentable.  We have put down weed matting and cypress mulch all the way along - we think it looks a million times better than it used to!

We also re-mulched and weed-matted the front gardens

 

This is the front of our house in 2007....

And this is the front of our house now

Colourful!

An assortment of Flowers @ Springfield Lakes

A little gardening

Some of the plants in my vegie garden are actually growing :-)

There are some peas starting to appear!!

This weekend, we also planted some flowers in the pots around the bbq area. Janet swept and cleaned the concrete, so we needed some flowers to make it all look pretty. And Jeya has something to look at :-)

Newly renovated front garden bed

We ripped all the plants out of our front garden bed, put down weed matting, cut holes in it for the plants to go, popped in some plants and covered with some mulch. Much tidier! And still living almost a month later!

Wet Weekend

Yay! We were allowed to use the hose for 1 hour on Saturday afternoon. We washed our cars. I have never washed my car. We've taken it through the car wash a few times, but I have never actually washed it with a hose since we got it last May. We haven't been allowed to. So I briefly have a shiny car again. It is kind of embarassing to admit how much joy was had from actually turning on the hose. We sadly had it stretched out into the front yard 3 hours before we were allowed to use it. Theres nothing like being prepared!!

Before the excitement of being able to use the hose, we sorted out our little garden bed next to the letterbox. A few weeks ago we pulled a heap of scraggly plants out of there, and now we have completed the make-over by adding some rocks. It took 2 trips to Bunnings to complete the job, because we didn't quite buy enough rocks, so I had to go back and get 1 more bag of the red ones. We like it.We spent Sunday afternoon in our nice dark lounge room watching episodes of Party of Five Season 1. Nice and relaxing!

We are also experiencing some technical difficulties with our computer. The keyboard and mouse are not working when they are plugged into their proper ports at the back of the computer brain. They do work when I plug them into the usb ports in the front (the only spare ones) This is not going to work because then I have nowhere to plug the camera or my flash drive in. So I am having to upload photos at work. I will have to call the place I got the computer from and see if they still exist so we can get it fixed. Perhaps a certain little cat has been playing with the cords behind the computer and has broken something.