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A photo looking along the very tall hedge that's between us and our neighbour. It's very overgrown and looks messy as hell. And when I say tall I mean well in excess of two metres.

The same view, but now the hedge is all neat and tidy.

Trimmed the hedge today before it got too hot. If you need me, I'll be over here not lifting my arms above about waist level.

Posted on 23 November 2024, 11:05

A photo looking out from the patio into our backyard prior to mowing. You can see a bit of the patio at the bottom where there are weeds growing in between the bricks, the edges of the lawn are quite long, and the grass in general looks very scruffy. The side of our house is visible at the left, with two trees in large pots next to it. Behind us is a very dodgy wooden fence that has a distinct lean, with a two-storey red brick house with all its blinds closed behind it looming over everything. To the very right is our little hobby room, a small standalone structure that's sitting alongside the fence. At the very top-right are the big tree in the corner of our yard and the trees from the neighbour's yard poking over.

Exactly the same view as the previous photo, except the lawn is neat and tidy and the patio has had the weeds whippersnipped, and the sun is significantly further into its afternoon arc and the shadow from the house behind us is reaching about half-way into the yard now.

✅ Laundry: washed. ✅ Lawns: mowed. ✅ Edges: edged. ✅ Patio: de-weeded. ✅ Me: ded.

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Posted on 26 October 2024, 16:46

A photo of the front of our house, to the left is the front door and in the middle of the photo is a big box window with a little garden in front of it. The garden has wooden beams separating it from the lawn and is covered in red mulch. There's two tall conifers in white pots in the middle, two, uh... I'm not sure what type of trees they are, but they're smaller and in blue pots to either side of the conifers, then some fairly sad-looking lavender also in blue pots in front of those. There's also a small jade plant and a kalanchoe in little pots at the left of the garden, and a little happy cow statue that's had most of the paint on it completely worn away.

Good weather for some gardening today, I (mostly) straightened the conifers, trimmed the lavender, and put some fresh mulch down.

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Posted on 23 December 2023, 13:57

A photo of our back yard, covered in calf-high long grass and weeds. Part of the patio is visible also has a bunch of weeds growing from in between the bricks.

The after photo, same view but with the grass short and neat and tidy and the patio free of weeds.

First job of the long weekend was a VERY overdue mowing of the lawn. It was so long that the bin was completely full from the clippings in the back yard and so I didn't even bother doing the front. Also mowed/whippersnipped the horrendous mess of weeds that's at the side of the house where the hot water system and air conditioning compressor are, where we never go. I started an "Outdoor Walk" workout on my Apple Watch and when I finished it had registered about 1750 active kilojoules after an hour and a half. For comparison my 45 minute workouts on the elliptical are typically around 2000 active kilojoules, so that was a decent effort. ::collapses in a heap::

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Posted on 30 September 2023, 12:36

A photo of the front of our house. There's a path next to the garage on the left that leads to the front door and has three small kalanchoes in pots along side the wall, and to the right of the front door is a big bay window with a small garden with red mulch in it. In the garden there's two conifers in tall white pots in front of the window, two small trees (I don't know what specifically they are) in blue pots on either side of the conifers, two somewhat sad-looking lavender plants also in blue pots in front of those, and some more kalanchoes and a jade plant at the very left of the garden.

I did some rearranging of the front garden today, quite pleased with the results! The problem with the conifers in their old position (under the eaves at the left there) was they constantly needed watering because they almost never got any direct rain, and also we had to semi-regularly trim them because they'd grow tall enough that they'd hit the eaves. Both these problems should be solved now, and hopefully they'll also grow a little better because they'll be getting some more light as well.

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Posted on 15 April 2023, 16:27

A photo taken from under our carport looking at part of the front yard and the front of the house. The grass is neat and tidy and the edging perfectly done.

A photo looking out at the back yard. The fence is rickety as hell but the grass is neat and tidy here as well. There's two trees in big pots at the left.

I've done the mowing and whippersnippering on every square centimetre of grass and weeds on our block of land, plus a couple of bits of the neighbours' on either side at the street at the front, have done the edging of the driveway, and also manually pulled up a lot of the obnoxious weed/grass that gets everywhere along the back fence. It all looks excellent, and I'm now officially DONE with doing anything that involves moving for today. ::collapses::

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Posted on 10 April 2023, 15:51

A photo of a narrow raised garden bed alongside a fence. The garden bed is covered in fresh red mulch and there's a metre-long black grate in it that the drainpipe that comes down from the pergola drains into.

Got a bit more of the garden bed done this afternoon, including a drain grate thing (it's not wonky, it's just angled slightly downwards). Previously the rain that fell on the pergola came down the drainpipe and dispersed through the dirt, which ended up just dribbling out from between the wood and causing a big puddle over the back-right of the bricks. I expect the water will still come through the wood but hopefully it's far enough to the left that the water will just flow down onto the grass now. 🤞🏻

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Posted on 9 January 2023, 16:37

A photo of a narrow raised garden bed alongside a fence, there's two palm-type trees in it, a fair few grassy weeds, and the red mulch coverage is fairly patchy and it looks very dull.

A wider-angle shot of the same bit of garden bed but showing more of it to the left. There's no weeds at all now and the mulch is fresh and red.

Phew, that was a productive afternoon. Pulled up all the weeds and dead mulch in half of our side garden, plus pruned a bunch of the dead fronds from the palm trees, then put weed mat down and fresh mulch. The other half will have to wait for another day because a) I'm out of steam, b) there's way more weeds than the half I did, and c) the garbage bin is full.

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Posted on 7 January 2023, 16:41

A photo of our back yard, covered in knee-high long grass and weeds.

The after photo, same view but with the grass neat and tidy and the patio free of weeds.

And then this afternoon was spent mowing and whippersnippering the lawns, as well as whippersnippering the horrifying amount of weeds that'd grown up in between the bricks of the patio. Also in between the food this morning, I did all the laundry as well. I am now officially DONE with doing ANYTHING that doesn't involve sitting down.

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Posted on 29 October 2022, 16:04

A photo of a little garden in front of a bay window. The whole "garden" maybe 1.5 metres wide and covered in red mulch, and at the front are two very lavender plants busily blooming with flowers.

I don't think you can tell from the photo, but there's a good three or four bees buzzing around our lavender at the moment! Now, hopefully these lavenders don't randomly up and die like the last two lots did (granted the previous ones were in the ground and the soil is CRAZY thick with clay here, so I think that significantly contributed to their demise).

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Posted on 18 September 2022, 9:51