Tales From the Box

After a months of dry we have hit the wet! The last 2 months has been great for the garden – we have had over 250mms here – and another wet few days on the cards.
The north garden is going along a treat – apart from the silly wallabies who continue to eat anything that isn’t caged away. However i have turned to ‘PossOff’ and it seems to be doing the trick. One very angry wallaby wents nuts and ripped a hole in the ground after nibbling on a possOff’d sprayed-leaf (mmm chilli flavoured).

I have spent some time fixing the edges of the lush thick lawn and everything looks very nice indeed. Hopefully we can get a bit more to get us through the dry of late winter and early spring

Hopefully some of the grevillia’s and callistemons will bush up and match the growth of the native grasses which have gone nuts. Happy to see the bamboo going very well too! Will bring you some more pics of the plants when I get out there next!

The box in 70’s goodness

After many a restart we have finally fixed this silly blog. All the links should be working and hey we have updated the front graphic. Here are some funky pics of the finished house.

After many years work – The Box was put to the test as the family journeyed up from Melbourne – hosting 25 people on the deck for Christmas lunch (albeit in Novmeber).

It was a lovely weekend – and The BOx worked a treat.

We have had our eye on getting rid on a few trees over the past few
years. Well thanks to a hefty tax bill we went all out and got rid of
the two dead ones at the front and the massive trees at the back.

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You might have missed us and we have missed you. The Kookas have been
at us too – so in spite of extreme laziness here are some updates of
the box. For now – the Kookas rule!

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There were three reasons I wanted a house as opposed to an apartment.

to mow the lawn

to make a garden

to have a dog

So when we bought our abode in Warrimoo there was some lawn to be mowed, a garden to be tended, and definitely the yard for a dog to run wild and free. However the house on stilts didn’t offer us much protection in keeping said dog inside purchased land.

So we reveled in other people’s dogs – namely our parents. In January my parents bought this gorgeous little puppy Shaogo – who ran amock on our deck and generally caused a bucket full of mischief. The little slideshow is some pics of her looking sickeningly cute. (By the way if you hadn’t noticed – I have fallen in love with this google slideshow – damn you google and your irresistible goodies)

We have found that since our reno – and the addition of the deck (with the soon to be roof – thanks for the donation myles) these flighty green creatures have been paying us a visit. In fact their has been a plethora of birds. But these little fellas were very friendly and happy to eat the seed i scatted on the deck.

Well after nearly a year of non updates, we are back here to share more tales. Though we haven’t blogged our tales, they still have happened. So over the next few weeks I will relay some the tales. We freshly painted the house mid year, but didn’t finish it completely until the week before Christmas where we finally moved into our bedroom (the room that was our living/kitchen) Anyway these pics highlight a few of our gatherings over the past few months.