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A photo of the front of our house. The front door is at the left next to a big bay window, and in front of the window is a small garden with a bunch of plants in pots as well as too small trees, also in pots. The mulch in the garden is freshly laid rich red wood chips and the lawn in front of the garden is nice and neat and tidy.

Phew, that was a productive morning! Remulched the front garden and rearranged the plants, and laid weed mat under the trees to the right as well as adding mulch there too. And did the mowing too.

Posted on 18 April 2022, 13:54

A photo of a section of front yard in front of our house. There's a bay window with a bunch of plants in pots in front of it in a little mulched garden area, and the grass in front of the garden is wonderfully neat and tidy.

A photo of the back yard where the grass is also wonderfully neat and tidy.

Oh man, I used our new electric lawn mower and whippersnipper today and it was an absolute DELIGHT. No fucking around with the stupid starter cord on the mower and it cuts so nicely. The whippersnipper has tons of power as well and lengthening the line is gloriously easy.

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Posted on 23 October 2021, 13:39

A photo of a corner of our garage with all of our new garden equipment mounted on the wall with hooks: the "Power Head" that holds the battery for the edger, hedge trimmer, and line trimmer attachments, as well as the leaf blower. There's also a small fire extinguisher, and small garden fork and spade.

A photo of the inside side wall of our garage with a bunch of vertically-hanging hooks attached to two wooden planks up near the ceiling. There's various tools hanging off them (a couple of saws, a couple of clamps, a level, bolt cutters, a broom, etc.).

That was an excellent last mental-health-Friday off. Got all the new garden equipment (sans mower) mounted tidily on the wall in the garage, and also put in a bunch of new hooks in on the other side to similarly neaten up the stuff that was hanging there. I also took the opportunity to take the new blower for a spin to clean the floor of the garage out a bit. It's got a "Turbo" button, and HOO BOY am I glad I had the arm strap attached because it was actively pushing backwards against me!

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Posted on 15 October 2021, 19:16

A photo of a BUNCH of big boxes containing all battery-powered equipment: lawn mower, blower, plus an edger, hedge trimmer, and line trimmer attachment and the head they attach onto. Also a shoulder strap and a pair of polarised protective glasses.

We've also gone whole-hog and replaced ALL of our outdoor gardening equipment with battery-powered stuff from a company called EGO. It's apparently extremely well-regarded and is as good as petrol so I'm keen to see how it goes.

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Posted on 12 October 2021, 13:00

A photo of the back of a house, with a pergola and a patio of nice clean brown bricks next to a freshly-mown lawn. It's bright and sunny.

It's 30°C and 12% humidity, and I've powerwashed the back patio and mowed the lawns. #pooped (Give me this dryness over a humid day anytime).

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Posted on 12 September 2021, 15:11

A photo of our front garden in front of the house. Lots of plants in pots in a red mulched area in front of a big bay window, and the lawn is all neat and tidy.

What a glorious morning for a spot of gardening.

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Posted on 18 April 2021, 10:46

A photo of our front yard. There's a bay window at the front of the house with two potted trees, with some smaller potted plants in front of them, all sitting on red wood mulch. To the left of the window is the front door with several potted kalanchoes alongside the path leading up to it, as well as two potted conifers. The grass in front of the garden is all neat and tidy.

Hell yeah, that's a damn fine-looking front yard!

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Posted on 7 December 2020, 18:14

A photo of a tall hedge that looks very scruffy and unkempt.

A photo of the same hedge but nice and neat and trimmed.

Fortunately I was able to trim our front hedge this morning before it got really hot. (Even so, it wasn't even 10am when I'd finished and it was already 32°).

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Posted on 16 November 2020, 15:24

A photo of a relatively narrow section of yard with a cream-coloured fence on the right and a red brick house on the left. A hot water tank and air conditioning compressor are visible against the wall of the house, and the ground is FILLED with weeds, lots of them waist- and even chest-high.

The same perspective as the first photo except with all the weeds gone and only a bit of plant matter lying on the ground.

Phew, first project of the long weekend done. We've got a section of the yard around the back where the hot water system and air conditioner live and where nobody ever goes that just constantly gets choked with weeds. I pulled up as much as I could and sprayed it with weed killer. And now, I'm pooped.

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Posted on 3 October 2020, 12:45

A photo of our front garden and front door. A large bay window at the right, two trees in blue pots on either side, two small new lavender plants in between them, and a row of kalanchoes in pots along the left wall that leads to the front door. There's also two tall conifers in tall pots along that same wall.

So since my last front garden update (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1397), I realised that that nice cheerful blue planter box was busily rusting, and the left-hand lavender died because it'd grown roots through the hole in the bottom and when I lifted it up I destroyed those roots. So today we got some new lavender and pots and did some rearranging! (The right hand lavender had also mostly died due to the same issue, but part of had managed to hang on).

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Posted on 12 September 2020, 19:00