The end, for now.

Well this is it, this could well be the last post regarding this topic for quite some time. The back yard is complete, well sort of, I still want to do something for the fire pit but that can wait until next year or something. Yesterday afternoon I went down the hardware store and purchased what I needed to set up an automatic irrigation system for the garden beds in the backyard. This morning two cubic meters of mulch was delivered so I hooked in and set up the irrigation and then got to spreading the mulch over everything. I think the result is amazing. I am quite proud of how everything turned out and I do still wonder if I should have been a gardener or a landscaper or something like that. I really do enjoy working in the yard and seeing a reward for my hard work.

Before

After

I'd never removed turf before, I'd never laid a mow strip or garden edging before. I'd never planted a hedge or a large tree before either. I'd mulched the garden several times at the old house but it always seemed like a much harder task than it was today. I think I am definitely fitter than I've been in a while even though I don't look or feel any thinner. If I've lost fat, it isn't from around my belly as I haven't adjusted my belt in a long time and I can't see anything any different in the mirror, if anything I seem to think that I've gotten bigger.
Anyway the back yard is done, the front yard is done. I still want to do the front porch with some pots and a climber of some description and something in pots outside the dinning room window, but those are smaller tasks that can be done in a couple of hours one weekend and not as major as all the work I've done so far.
As far as inside the house goes, I still need to put a TV on the wall in the bedroom but I think my wife and I agree that we really should buy a new TV for in there and I think neither of us really want the expense of that at the moment. The TV in lounge room should be mounted on the wall too, but as I've mentioned in the past I want to install a proper home theatre system in there so that can wait until the savings have recovered a little too. We do also want to do more in the study/spare bedroom but again to do what we want will cost a little more than either of us really want to spend at the moment. I'm sure that will change in a month or two, but for now we're happy with the way things are.

Bomber
Time for a well earned beer.