Deborah has finished the last of the furniture repainting and the interior redesign of Kaz’s house is basically done, unless of course Deborah gets bored. For a $200 budget it looks pretty darn good. Photos will come after the reveal to Kaz at the end of the week.
We’ve now turned our attention to the exterior and are quickly learning the challenges of working in what is essentially a wetland. It seems as though it has rained at least some here every day for the last week and a half. We do get sun breaks and it is still warm, but the ground is just drenched and the yard is riddled with puddles nearly large enough to drown a dingo. To walk outside is to hear a rhythmic “squish, squish, squish.” Because the showers were warm we didn’t let them deter us from working outside. So we pruned, relocated plants, moved boulders, repositioned yard art, invented new yard art, and debated over what actually qualifies as yard art, all the while keeping a wary eye out for snakes (thankfully, none appeared). The result is a front yard that is much improved. It helps that Kaz had a lot of great plants; they were just overgrown or crowded in the wrong location. Now everything looks trim and tidy, but still lush and green, with more manageable pathways and well-placed yard art.
We’ve done a bit of cleaning up the side yards as well, but they and the enormous back yard will require a sizeable effort including regrading and the introduction of fill material, gravel, drain rock, flagstone, more plants, and a ½ scale reproduction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (budget allowing). I’ve drawn out a plan for the landscaping to use as a guide for future improvements, or as fuel for a fire to try and dry out one’s shoes.
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Deborah's reinvention of a coffee maker.
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