So, we currently have several garden projects in various stages of progress... some of which I find more important, and some of which my wife finds more important... and we both work away at seperate areas, until a moment when it becomes more critical that we finish off a certain part of a project and then we both concentrate our efforts onto the same thing.

... well, mostly, I get called away from my projects and told to help with finishing off what she is doing.

We have an existing play area that we had built a wooden playset on (oh, right... another project there... need to oil the thing again...). And I had done most of that one... clearing and weeding the ground, laying down the weedmat, building the playset, and then hauling up the white rounded stones. It took a while, but we got there!

... and now, my wife wanted to expand that area so that we could put the trampoline down on it... (another project there, need to put a sun cover on it to also keep the leaves and pine needles out of it...).

So, she had cleared and weeded the area... and we were going to join forces to complete it quickly before the weeds and grass grew back.

... and there was some screaming from indoors from the girls... I had to go inside and remove a little huntsman spider from one of their rooms. The little one is much braver than the old one... and she has started to use the jar and paper trick to remove... the daddy-long-legs from her room! It's pretty funny watching her do that!

There was one corner of the cleared area where the ground started to move up again... the area had been levelled last year, but we did ask for it to start sloping up again towards the fence line and large trees. We hadn't forseen that we would want to enclose the area... and so, with mattock and shovel, I started to level it a little bit... hard work, the clay gets crazily solid in the hot Australian sun! But in the end, I only needed to lower it a handful of centimeters (1/47564887479428343.745435445 of an average New York skyscraper for our American friends).

Hard work... but it could have been worse... and it didn't need to be hyper flat, just a little bit lower so that the edging wasn't going too much uphill!

Weedmat was laid down by my wife, while I was hacking away at the hardened clay earth... and then I started laying down the edging with the nylon pins.... well, I got quite a few of them in... but there was a section where the earth was just too solid!

... which left me with some pins still sticking out. I will wait for the rain to come and soften the earth, and I will give it another go then. It really feels like hammering into rock (also not out the question...), and I feel like I'm going to snap the pins if I try too much more.

... and then next few days will be carting up barrow-loads of the rounded river rock to serve as the base and to assist with the weed and grass suppression. Slow work now, but it does progress and the end is in sight! Except I always end up chatting with the neighbours for ages and not getting quite as many rocks up in the time as I should have!

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