All recent plans were thrown (weekend interruption was great though!). I was meant to show off the start of a plane but I haven’t gotten past the cube, so I’m showing off my gardening efforts for the day instead. My back and legs hurt. So many rocks, don’t even know where they all came from. I better be able to make a path or something when I pick them all up XD

nb: this is kind of in a thematic/narrative order not really a chronological one. We hit up Bunnings over a couple more weekends to pick up more concrete for the chicken fence, and of course bought more plants and seeds (fortunately I had the bag notebook so we didn’t double up on anything except chicken and insect mix which was done deliberately). On one of the trips we somewhat accidentally split up (on a previous trip I had seen a couple of paint swatches that made up my domain name and wanted them) so Eldest (who had come with us) ended up scuttling back and forth as messenger asking what seeds we had, and after finding (or not finding) his request and telling him I said the only “bad” thing about the notebook was no search function XD

Found this cool bug on the yet-to-flower Impatiens. My friend assures me I don’t have to worry about it ^_^

Yesterday’s gardening efforts that I forgot to post yesterday. Youngest moved the raised sleeper bed to the correct spot and Eldest and I grabbed some free chicken food/mulch from the verge.

We hadn’t been long after the last update when we accidentally acquired more stuff. We had returned to Bunnings much sooner than anticipated as we had forgotten to buy replacement heat lamps during the last trip and I decided that I really wanted that Elkhorn fern. And of course a couple more things we “needed”. The creeping thyme seeds in the picture is actually the result of another gardening argument. There was some really nice grass when we moved in (after we got it under control as everything was massively overgrown, the house had been unoccupied for many months prior). J was always adamant that he would not under any circumstances ever bother wasting any effort on things that didn’t feed us specifically and it didn’t really matter because the grass didn’t care.

Aeris the Pig Dog vs Satan the Chicken of Indeterminate Breeding “Satan” was so-called because she kept jumping the fence and occasionally also climbing up onto the currently defunct aquaponics and then onto the shed and then onto the roof and jumping off the other side, and we’d then have to drive her back to the chicken area. Aeris “The Puppy” (who is currently 4 years old) eventually figured out what we were wanting after following us every time we went to round up the chicken and then started trying to help and after requiring a few corrections (she was just chasing initially because I guess she thought that’s what we were doing, and also she’s not meant to actually catch them) she’s been really enjoying rounding up any chickens (usually this one). The chickens don’t enjoy it quite as much.

A wise person would have done this before buying more seeds. Unfortunately we are not wise people. So many duplicates XD and so many past “sow by/before” dates x_x

A couple of plants started flowering (the bulbs were here when we got here) and I accidentally bought a new one when we went to get painting supplies x_x

Came for replacement heat lamps and an elkhorn fern. Not pictured is the house paint we also needed and several seed packets which we didn’t really. Bunnings (and by extension nurseries) is getting as dangerous as Officeworks.

It began unexpectedly with the paint I’ve been needing (we have some unexpected asbestos walls which need to remain painted and the current coat is peeling and we didn’t get the renos done that I wanted so I told J it had to be done before summer ended, and I’m running out of summer). He was doing a Bunnings run for some stuff to repair leaky taps and asked if I needed anything, I told him to get Cottage or Federation Green paint and pretty much any white that looked like it would go with it (I don’t much care as Cottage Green and white is not my favourite but I’d never gotten around to redoing it in Cottage Red and we’re planning on repainting the inside in greens).