It Doesn't Snow in Perth..... It Hails

I found these few shots taken at the old house a month ago. When it hails... it sure is damn noisy and then, you'll see stuff like this littering the yard... The white bits are little sheets of ice on the paving. At side view, you can actually see sago-looking ice on the ground.. Imagine this bertabur-ed all over the garden.... And if you're outside in the garden, it is painful when it hits you... I'd know... I've been pelted by Mother Nature before. Ouch!

Bryan's Lemon Cake

Bryan had the whole day off at home on Thursday and he egged me into baking a lemon cake.... it was either this or baking trays of gingerbread men.... He helped mix the cake up, he took all the photos except for the last one and with the help of his super-vision, he helped look at the cake while it was baking... updating me with reports every 5 minutes from "look it's cooking like in Cooking Mama!" to "It turned into chocolate cake!"..... No, I didn't burn it, it just turned orange brown....

Ahhhhh... Nothing Like The Smell Of Manure Early In The Morning.....

The strip of garden behind the garage door is an uninterrupted, narrow with nothing but sand...

So after dropping Bryan off to school, I decided against driving all the way to Bunnings and settled for Big W just down the road instead. Bought soil conditioner, manure mix, some seedlings and off I went home to get started. But before that, I gasak-ed all the limestone bricks from Bunnings on Tuesday at 70% discount and lined them up to form a little retaining margin. Here you can see... just sand.... not a worm in sight.

After digging in the soil conditioner and the fertilizer and a generous shower, this was how it looked like...

First I planted the chives........

Then this Sandgroper tomato....

Then the capsicums

One more Big Mama Capsicum and lastly, the sweet corn. And at the end of Day 1 of gardening, Lady Greenthumb stood back, took in the view....and went into the house to have a scrubdown because she found manure in her hair... Yikes...

3 Days After Moving In...

The theater was the kids' most important room.... so it was one of the first ones to be set up. Notice the bunny ears on the TV? We couldn't receive any Free-to-air at all... cos the house is Smart wired and we didn't have any set top boxes. So the kids had to rely on DVDs or the Wii to amuse themselves... Dare they complain?

We finally managed to put most of the stuff away by day 3. Not bad, considering we opened threw away all empty boxes by the end of week 1 and we could park our cars in the garage by the end of day 3. We get to see some floor here...

Here's Bryan at the dining table

Bryan's room

Therapy room

Cait's bed

Below is my study... the last one to take shape....

Kitchen

So as you can see, there was some sort of order after the initial chaos.

I applaud Derrick for working really hard on getting the skirtings done. In order for the skirting to fully stick on to the wall, he put some paving bricks (wrapped in newspaper) against it after Liquid-Nailing the board to the wall. Ah, my little Handyman.

No Order in THIS Chaos!

Before mom's bed was put in.... mess on the carpet floor.

After mom's bed was placed..... mess STILL on the carpet floor

Before Cait's bed.... mess on her floor....

After Cait's furniture was placed.. mess was STILL on her floor....

Before: Living room... mess at the side, in front of kitchen island...

After furniture... mess still on the floor.....

Before my bed......

After my bed was put in... still same mess

My sanctuary

The Laundry room... Now you see what I have been busy with in the last few weeks? I'll post more AFTER photos soon.