Yay, our outdoor couch and chairs are finally here! The delivery truck arrived around lunch time on Saturday so I had the dubious honour of assembling more furniture (one day we'll be rich enough to buy goods that don't require a toolbox) while Alison went out for lunch with Elizabeth. The chairs were a little finicky to put together, as they are suspended and oscillate on a flexible bar, but I managed to finish everything in about an hour. Can't believe how awesome it is to have a couch outside to lounge on. Now we just need to find a little coffee table to place beverages and we're all set.
With a four wheel drive at our disposal (we're car-sitting for John and Sheena) picking up the filing cabinet should have been easy as pie. It would have been if we didn't have to make two trips to Office Works to take back the first cabinet which had a dent in the top. To be fair, the staff were apologetic for the inconvenience and happily replaced our dud with a working model, which allowed us to hide the heap of paperwork that's been clogging up the guest room for the last few weeks. Our little store room has turned out rather well I think.
This means that the guest room is now pretty much cleaned up and ready for visitors at the drop of a hat. No more cleaning up this room and bothering guests when I need to use the computer, nosiree. We even have two drawers empty just for long staying visitors, how hospitable!
The old junk room has been cleared out as well, though we haven't done too much with it as yet. For now it's just a space for the guitars, carpet offcuts, a computer desk (for the other laptop) and the wardrobe of course. Not really all that interesting but I'm sure we'll find a use for this room eventually.
It's certainly an improvement over what it used to look like for the better part of the last year.
All these new goods were accompanied by a mountain of cardboard packaging, so we took a trip out to the "transfer station" on Sunday (once again only possible due to John's car). I would have liked to fit the stump we uprooted a few weeks ago in the back, but the car was jam packed with packaging material. Friendly neighbours to the rescue as they let us dump the stump in their skip bin. Farewell nemesis, you were a worthy opponent.
While out we picked up a few more friends for the garden. We haven't actually come up with names for them as yet (suggestions anyone?) but we already think of them as family. The rabbit tries to oversee the vegetable patch, and is currently conducting a thorough investigation of a list of tomato eating suspects. Our gnome may seem a little laid back but who can blame him when you have a tropical paradise of gingers to relax under.
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On the subject of vegetables, may we draw your attention to the awesomeness that is our eggplant. Some of those babies will be going into a stir fry in a few weeks I'd wager. No sign of courgettes as yet, but the herbs have been super.
We bought a rusted old wash basin on our trip to the Tin Dog last year with the intention of planting herbs or perhaps flowers in it. Now that our herb and vegie garden is largely complete we've been forced to come up with a new use for this, and settled on an assorted cacti/succulent arrangement.
I'm not sure how well some of those will do with the wet weather we're having but with luck they'll grow and spread out nicely. We've put together a few different colours so with luck it should end up being a pretty addition to the garden.
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