Landscaping Project

We have been very busy over the last few weeks on a major landscaping project. We have extended our entertaining area with tiles, installed privacy screens and a water feature, laid new gravel and added some beautiful Terracotta pots planted with Gardenias and Camellias. Now it is all taking shape and is a beautiful relaxing place to sit at any time of day or evening. We still have some more planting to do but we are nearly there!


Also we are really enjoying our beautiful big Tibouchina which is in full flower right now. We can see it really well from inside the house too which is lovely when the sun is shining in.

Nature’s Christmas Tree

 

We have a beautiful West Australian Gum tree in our front garden and last week it burst into all these wonderful flowers. They have attracted so many colourful native birds and the garden is full of them from the early hours. It is a pleasure to sit outside and watch them enjoy the nectar so we are very thankful to the first owners of this property for their vision in planting this special tree.

We Build a Kitchen Garden

 

When we first inspected our new house we were a bit underwhelmed by the kitchen garden, we knew it had to be `Project Number 1’ after we moved in. We decided to replace it with an above ground model and we went for the concept of planting directly into bags of potting mix which are layered on sugar cane mulch and then covered over with mulch. We made holes in the bottom for drainage and then slit the tops. Anyhow now its all done thanks to Alan and it looks wonderful. More importantly the veges and herbs are growing beautifully :)

Settling In

 

Today it is 4 weeks since we moved house and locality and it has been full on for us both. In that time I have had a milestone Birthday, entertained a number of visitors, welcomed 2 houseguests, Anne first and then Sue, I have started a new Volunteer position, we have unpacked more than 50 boxes, pressure cleaned all the pathways and driveway, cleaned up the garden, taken loads to the Op Shop and the Rubbish Tip and Alan and I have crossed off numerous items from our `To Do List’. Today we joined the library which was our last item on the list and it was great to borrow a book and know I will finally have time to read it. I have also learned that I can borrow an electronic book on- line and download it to my iPad without even visiting the library :)

In summary we love our new house and the location is perfect. In this photo above you can see my favourite part of the house – a reading corner which is also great for entertaining while I cook.

This is part of our leafy and private front yard.

We also love that we have not had to buy any new `stuff’. Except for 2 new red stools for the kitchen breakfast bar. Everything we have is arranged differently and is in different places, but it all fits so well. So……… its all good

Our Sea Change Begins

So the day after my last Blog Post we sold our house and just as we hoped we are moving to Noosaville. It has all happened so quickly it was obviously `meant to be’ and now after 5 years here and 15 years on country acreage we are taking a Sea Change and moving back to suburbia. We are excited and apprehensive all at once but we know we are making the right move at the right time. Everything has fallen so neatly into place and we have now sold our Shipping container, our tractor, 2 ride on mowers and a heap of other stuff after 2 garage sales. We settle on our new home on Monday August 22 just a few days before I turn 60 so it will be a great Birthday present for me!! Wish us luck :)

The beautiful collage background I have used here was done by an artist named Samantha Kira Harding so I hope she won't mind me using it here to illustrate my post - it just seemed to sum up our feelings at this time!

Gone Fishing

 

On Monday Alan and his brother Geoff decided to take out the boat on the Noosa River and go fishing. I thought a day off sounded good too so I grabbed a picnic, a thermos, some good  books and a chair and sat in the sun by the river while they fished.

Here they are heading out – we chose a perfect day for it!

And here is the result, a beautiful big fish.  We had enough for ourselves and we gave one large fillet to a neighbour. Last night we all enjoyed a yummy fish meal. So this is just one reason why we would like to move to Noosaville :)

And here is another – it was so relaxing and peaceful just sitting by the river reading and watching people doing all sorts of different activities on the river. All in all a perfect day and an ideal break for us from property beautification and maintenance.

We are on the Market :)

 

Once again we have placed our property on the market and this time we hope to succeed in selling. We have a different agent and a different sales programme that we know will work.  We have also been really busy spring cleaning, weeding, mulching, clearing out, giving away and generally sprucing everything up and we have been full on doing this for some weeks now. After our annual holiday in Noosaville in May we decided that is where we are going to live so our days of fishing and picnicking by our dam will be replaced with doing this same thing on the banks of the Noosa River :) Wish us luck!! By the way this photo will be one of our property photos on line.