Saturday soccer has finally finished for another year, the weather is becoming more enjoyable to work in and we actually had some resources laying around to finish off a few projects. Not a bad weekend at all really!

My main assignment this weekend was to lay the concrete slab for the first of our water features. I started preparing the location for this at the beginning of July but the weather and other commitments have kept me from getting back to it.

However, it’s done now and curing well especially with all this rain we’ve had since Sunday. The plan is that I’ll start on some of the brickwork this weekend (weather permitting) but after that we’re on holidays for a couple of weeks and won’t get back to it until after then.

The next project has been clearing up our future vegie patch. We had to haul a couple of trailer-loads of dirt to raise the level which Deb and I did during the week.

Then we went and sourced some free woodchips (provided we load it ourselves to cover it all.

The kids playset will reside here for the next year or two as we finish off some of our larger projects (shed, pergola, chicken coop…) and then we’ll start with the vegies. The wonderful thing about having sawdust here is that it’s great softfall for the kids but will break down over time and add to the soil.

But, that’s not all…

My darling wife wanted to redesign our side garden which we had basically completed 18 months ago. This little rejuvenation program involved ripping up some slabs, pulling out a mountain of dichondra, altering some reticulation and forming a couple of extra garden beds.

Not that I’m averse to having more garden beds, I just thought we might be free from redesigning the garden for a few years yet.

Along the way we discovered this little frog informing us that our efforts have not been in vain. Roy would be able to tell you what type it is I’m sure…