Some of you may have been following my attempts to make my garden a bit more user friendly. First off I moved my garden fence to expand our garden and reduce the amount of unused driveway we have. We only have one car and did have a driveway that could fit three cars, it made sense.
Then my gate blew off in the high winds a few weeks ago. The gate then swelled in the damp conditions and didn’t fit properly and my wife kept complaining about it being stuck and she couldn’t get her bike out.
I’ve finally put the post tops on and put on the anti swing through wood strip on the outside of the post, so hopefully the posts look finished and the gate won’t blow through any more. I’ve also fitted a few cover strips to disguise the butchery job that I had to do to trim it down to fit once it had swelled. These all still need painting though.
I’ve also been working on a sliding flap to close the hand hole that we needed to be able to reach the combination lock on the gate so it can be unlocked from both inside and outside, by those that know the magic number that is.
Next spring we intend to lawn the extra land we have acquired by moving the gate and fence and finally getting the new 8 x 6 shed and put it on the area of slabs that I have already laid. Once the shed is in place the old decrepit wooden shed will be removed and burnt or made in to shelves for the new shed and in it’s place a we will install a nice little raised seating and barbecue area next to the grape vine that has taken full hold of the pergola.
The snow has halted most garden activity and the lawn is now white and fluffy. The garden is really pretty in the coverings of winter and even the unfinished dirt space that has been left after all my hard(ish) work has a uniformed look with the rest of it.
If I had any sense I would have taken a lot of pictures this year as we made the transformation happen. Unfortunately I did not. So there is nothing to document that I-none-D.I.Y.-man has done all of this on my own with only my wife and son watching me muddle through the whole process.
For all new projects I must remember to take pictures. Well, that’s next years plan.
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