Native Garden and honeybees

There are all ready a few natives growing in the garden around the house and the little fairy wrens love them. Will be planting more as soon as we move in. The renovations are getting along slowly. Sunday is the only day Greg and I can work on the place together and with the two boys along it sometimes seems to take three times as long to do things as simple as sanding.

 

Below is a picture of our beehive. I had to google whether bees actually do have bee hives underground and yes they do! This one is out front under a big gum tree and next to a wattle that is almost always humming. Too bad it might be a bit difficult to get honey out of this hive.

A pirate chest

 

A great find in the front garden was this old luggage truck. What a great pirate treasure chest this will be.
The captain and only a few of his crew have survived a shipwreck on the bay, they loaded up all the treasure that got washed up on shore into this trunk and carried it for days and days until one day they stepped foot onto RoseView and the story begins...
Now to find some pirate coins to fill the trunk and maybe even a treasure map.

Putty time!

My husband is a perfectionist and so he loves putty. Filling every crack and hole in walls to make a smooth surface is not my idea of fun but I must admit I did enjoy helping putty the walls and there were a lot of holes to putty. Two major ones on the living room that required plasterboard and about a hundred pin holes in the boys room.

Almost cleaned

A week later and I'm almost finished cleaning. Just need to clean the walls of the laundry, hallway and the wardrobes in the bedrooms. The house is all ready beginning to look so much better. As I have been cleaning I have felt like I'm bonding with the cottage, as silly as that sounds. This will be our home for a long time, the place my boys will dream in, the place they will play in, the place they will look back on when they are no longer scared of the monsters under the bed or look for fairies in the kitchen. And most important of all, this will be the place they will eat copious amounts of food in. 😃