Ride On

Late last year we made a fairly significant purchase. We have quite a big block of land and it was taking Dermot nearly every weekend to mow and maintain it, and that didn't include the gardens. The mowing for long lengths of time over the weekend was stopping our interest gardening. It is something we both enjoy.

So finally Dermot got this little beauty. Brid was ever so excited and couldn't wait to get on for a ride.

It has made all the difference. It now takes Dermot, myself & Brid 3 hours to completely mow, blower vac and finish off our work with a well deserved drink.

Last week....

It was an unusual week. Firstly getting over the very late night coming home from the Canonisation events.

Dermot was sick with a Flu all week. So between looking after him, running the business in his absence and schooling Brid, it was a big week.

Our Unit study on American Indians is going well. Still enthusiasm and enjoyment. We are now putting together the Lapbook, and it means lots of cutting sticking and creativity.

We began our next Saxon Maths book, with Brid wanting to attempt 2 lessons for the first week. That was Ok with me, but by day 3, I could see her concentration waining. Now when I say 2 lessons, they are fairly easy, as they review the last book, so I choose some questions from the lesson for Brid to complete. So maybe 20- 22 questions in total. But then we were back to one lesson a day.

We have a new piano teacher and she has certainly inspired Brid. She is teaching her some new skills and motivating her to play harder pieces. Brid is up for the challenge. Brids 'last piano teacher was lovely and we have only moved on because her Hisband has taken work in another city.

I am continuing to tackle the yards and getting it straightened out by summer.

We are watching our plants grow in our pots. I am going to add more this weekend....it rained so this didn't happen.

We watched Brids ballet rehearsal on Sunday. Very sweet.

Louise popped in and we made bags for her Irish Dancing shoes.

whats happening in this part of the woods

Its been a pretty quite 2 week school holiday after 2 homeschool camps. We just stayed low and 'hung out' at home.

But I have put some muscles to work and weeded all our gardens and gotten rid of some of the weeds in the lawn. It has been very difficult to get outside with workmen in our yard for several months, and the amount of rain we have had this last 6 months.

So now its time to reclaim our land.

So I have found the BBQ cover that was hidden under lots of rubble, and wow I found some useful aluminiun corners left over from the shed building.

So this week, I can report to weeding 3 long long gardens with Brid. We now can see where we need to plant some shrubs. They have been waiting for 12 months in there pots. Hope they will be OK.

We have discussed and designed our vege garden. I got a little ahead of myself and planted several herbs in pots. Couldn't wait.

So would you like to see what I have found.

the weeds from some of the gardens

some of the plants pottted




my BBQ cover drying and ready to place on bbq

 

one of our water tanks required by council

Our Lady overseeing all the Work



This is what the builders were building





A jump in together