Thursday, January 31, 2013

house of two halves


We've been working on he outside,just what w can afford, so lots of our own blood sweat and tears, a bit of help from Struan's father and a tiny bit for a builder-man to do. The brick work is just cladding and underneath we discovered weatherboards, mostly in good nick, just some splits from where they nailed in the supports for the cladding and a few rotten boards. We are working on the bits, the kids have started off for us, trying to be helpful they said, ha!  
 
 These pictures are a "during" moment, obviously "before" is the brick cladding, and "after" will be due for 'reveal "  soon.
And the jungle I call my "kitchen garden".  Anyone got ideas for vegetable(stink) bugs? Someone said water stress, and true its been hot and i've been distracted with house stuff, but I don't think they'll go away now just because i'm watering more?

2 comments:

  1. Wow, it's going to look like a totally different house! amazing!

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  2. wow, what a joy to find your blog! We have lots of stink bugs too and it is super dry here. (Water tanks so low and i so don't want to have to buy water)...i am trying garlic spray...its only day two so we'll see how it goes. good luck with yours, a

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