prepare the house for carpet cleaning

I need to get more organized so I'm trying to do a small blog post each day to keep me on track.

On Wednesday morning the carpet cleaner will be here ... so I have had this week and particularly the next two days to get the floor as clear and uncluttered as possible.

This is not happening a moment too soon as RJ is scooting along the floor at a great rate of knots.

Its not a full up on hands and knees crawl, but it gets him around ... Fast!!

A week ago he would move 360 degrees and get about 1 to 2 metres away from wherever you put him down.

Now ... if he sees something interesting across the room ... he heads straight for it.

Moves along a bit like a seal!!!

I have all of Kt's small toys boxed up in big labelled plastic containers. I don't know how it happened but last year we accumulated more toys with tiny parts than we have ever had before.

Kt is not keen for me to tidy up and organize her things when she is there ... she constantly kicks up a fuss and complains etc.

But when I do it while she is at school and she returns home to find her room tidy or her toys organized I am pleasantly surprised with how impressed and even appreciative she is of what I have done!!!

I am glad school holidays have finished and I have a chance to tackle a few of the things I have been meaning to get done for ages

first post for the new year

Have been having trouble finding the time to blog and have not wanted to get too bogged down and introspective.

Just had to mention a few things though ... like how lovely my baby is when he smiles and how tasty my daughters home grown carrots that we harvested today were.

During the spring holidays uni and kt planted flowers and veggies in raised foam boxes in the back yard.

The idea was that they would be safe from our pets ... the corn eating one and the always looking for an easy litter tray one.

During the spring holidays uni and Kt planted cucumber, tomato, carrot and flowers.

The tomatoes surprisingly never really took off. The cucumbers were quickly polished off by our pooch. Some she could reach directly from the ground as they hung down out of the foam boxes ... and the others she reached by SITTING on TOP of the carrots in the carrot box and reaching over to get the cucumbers.

Once all the cucumbers were gone she realized that the carrots might be of interest too and started sitting on top of them and digging them up too.

She unearthed a few and perhaps did not like them very much.

Tonight we saw the discarded carrots on top and kt pulled a few intact ones from the soil.

They were so beautiful ... cute and little with light hairy roots coming off them.

We cleaned them off and ate them this evening and they were so delicious.




With all this rain, the front garden is very lush and lovely ... there is plenty of green although a lot of that is weeds!!!

Some of the weed plants and very pretty ... lovely red flowers etc.

Amongst the growth is a dahlia that kt bought for me either for mothers day or my birthday last year.

She bought me two plants one red/pink and one orange/yellow. I planted both in different spots in the garden and initially watered them regularly but then of course didn't keep it up once Rj came along.

Both disappeared completely and I thought they were dead but did not pull them out of the ground.

Then after a heavy bout of rain I noticed the red/pink one had a small amount of foliage and the more rain that came the stronger and bigger it grew until now it has masses of beautiful flowers.

I lamented the fact that I planted the other one in a part of the garden which seems incapable of sustaining any life except weeds ... I'm blaming the creature who goes in search of an easy litter tray for that.

Anyway today I took the bins out and checked over the garden and looked over to the patch that does not support life to see if another plant I had recently planted there had managed to survive.

To my delight I could see a beautiful yellow/orange flower. Then I thought to myself ... that's odd ... the gerbera I recently planted had yellow flowers I wonder why they changed to yellow orange and then when I looked closer I realized the flower was attached to foliage the same as the pink/red dahlia kt had given me.

From absolutely nothing at all this dahlia regrew into the most stunning plant with the most amazing flower! Here are the photos...



I took kt and uni out to show them.

... also the yellow gerbera is still there ... surrounded by weeds, but alive nevertheless.

Am still beaming at the thought of it ... my lost plant that came back to life!