Daisy Chains and Picnics

It was a beautiful day today and as it was Jodie's day off we decided to go for a stroll around the botanical gardens and grab the chance to take some photos of the beautiful grounds. Can you spot us? The green eyed monster showed up in some serious cactus envy 🌵🌵😉 Seriously, how cool are these guys, Jodie refused to stick one up her jumper for me, party pooper! 🙈😜😜 The pond at the Japanese Garden had been drained and it was in the process of getting cleaned. We had planned to get lunch at the gardens cafe but on looking at the menu prices ($15 for a bowl of soup) we decided to go the stingy route and dine at Hungry Jacks 😂🍔🍟😋, we both got fed for less than one bowl of soup! and Jodie got a frozen bursties drink 👆 And today was mums 80th birthday so we ended the day with facetime which we do every Wednesday, it is great to catch up and see each other 💗💗 Happy 80th birthday mum, love you to the moon and back 💕🎉🍷

Our backyard has been in serious need of a resurfacing revamp for a while now, the decking, which is now over 13 years old was looking tired and dated, some of the the deck boards had split and broken and it was getting quite dangerous, only a matter of time before someone's foot went clean through! Before I had seen an advert on TV about DIY pebble resurfacer but it was expensive so we planned to replace most of the old decking with new.  Then 24th July 2020 we happened upon the very pebble resurfacer that was advertised on TV on clearance at Bunnings, reduced from a whopping $49 a tub to a fabulous $5 a tub, well that was it, we bought 46 tubs so we would have enough to resurface the whole of the decking and seating area, and better still, Scott got it for $4.75 a tub with his power pass card...win win!!, $218 to resurface the entire area, how cool is that! Of course, we had to move everything to the other side of the garden before we could start. Over the weekend of the 19th Sep...