A blog post a week 2/52 - Celebrating!

It would have been nice to win the $80 million Powerball but unfortunately that wasn't to be (but it's now $100 million!!!), so we're not celebrating that BUT

It was Summers 2nd Birthday on 11 January.  Now that is a celebration.  Everyone put up some lovely photos of her - here are a few:

Isn't she just gorgeous.  She is a little terror but is so lovely.

Happy Birthday Summer

I was also celebrating some bargains at Bunnings this past week.

I got these plants in the clearance part:

2x standards for $10 each!  Normal price was about $53.99 each.  They were dry and water resistant/repellent, but I put some special granules in when re-potting and they are now all good.  I'm settling them in and they will go at the front door.

 3x Grevilleas for $5 each!  Normal price about $15 each.  They were also water repellent/resistant and looked a bit droopy.  Again, I got the granules out and they are fine now.  I'm also settling them in and one they are strong we will replant up the back of the yard.

I was pretty happy with all that.  I got some other things too but they were the bargains.  While I was potting up, I had a beautiful red geranium that Greg's mum had bought me when she was here on holiday and it needed potting up.  So I did that and it is going great guns!

I was looking for a tumbler composter recently and there was nothing around.  Then one came up on Marketplace for $30.  Yay, I bought it and picked it up.  

When we were at Bunnings, we saw them for $130!!!  Another celebration had there.

We worked on my Kitchen Garden which had become a weed garden.

Soil looked good but was completely and utterly water repellent - really bad!

We got some soil delivered from our local hardware.  It looked really good when we went there but once we had put it all the the garden beds and I watered it in - OH NO!!! It was SEVERELY water repellent/resistant 😠  I was NOT happy (we paid a lot for that soil).

Anyway, Greg didn't want me calling them up and saying something (sigh) so he said he would get it fixed.  Again my granules were used and he got 5 bags of local horse poo (the beauty of living semi rural in a horsey town).  It will take probably about a month for it all to settle down and be usable, so we are watering every couple of days and turning it all once or twice a week.  That should allow it to become good soil again.

I went back to work this week (hmm not sure that that is a celebration - but I am celebrating that I have a wonderful part-time job and I work with really lovely people).  I got lots done as it was fairly quiet.

Quiet at work and OMG look how big Mr Huntsman was!!!!!

I had this little (big) visitor in the lunch room at work 😟 Lucky for me our site services guys came and relocated it out to the garden area.  Eeeeeekkk.

I got home from work on Friday afternoon and poor little Ben was not in a good way.  He had a yukky vomit bug and was feeling very, very, sick.  Poor little man.

Given that little Ben wasn't 100% we had a fairly quiet weekend.  However, he was feeling back to himself by the afternoon on Saturday.  On Sunday he was back to normal.

And then on Sunday night

Poor little Rhys vomited all in his bed (and continued through the night)..............

Oh NO!!!!!!

Fingers and toes crossed that no one else gets it.  

Thought for the week

That was week 2 of our life  😬

See you next week

Love Rach xxxx