Green lawns

We've been so busy setting up the house and enjoying it that we haven't had the time to put up photos. Still haven't got anything to put up really but we did have a little excitement in the yard today when John and Sheena brought down a hand-me-down lawn mower for us to use. Probably a good thing too as the front yard had turned into a thriving ecosystem of weeds and wild grass.



The first attempts at starting the mower were comically concerning, though I knew that Peter must have done a bang up job of getting the old girl running for us. After the toxic cloud had cleared we were on our way with a quick lesson in lawn maintenance from John. It's a lot harder than it looks I must say, my early patches look more like crop circles than rolled cricket pitch.

We spent most of the morning weeding and pottering around the garden getting to know the new tools, which also included a whipper-snipper. Didn't get much of a chance to try out the new couch we've received courtesy of James and Dora though we'll get to show mum and dad a little more hospitality next week when they come down for the night.



The lounge room now has the temporary camping chairs removed and is shaping up nicely. Things are slowly coming together on the renovation front too with our fly screens hopefully coming in next week. We ordered some retractables from here which should finally keep those crazy bugs out of our house.