Spring cleaning the backyard...

Ooooh, lovin' this spring-like weather.

We spent another whole day outside.

Just shooting the breeze with a hot drink before the work gets started.

Nathan's aeroplane he built...

(with playhouse in place for the new chicken coop - we just moved the coop back onto it, cut a hole on one side and fitted it over the doorway)

Oops! A lesson learned on hammering with your face too close to your work (no, it wasn't from the hammer, but from the piece of wood being hit in the wrong place and making it flick up into his face).

Danielle helping me reerect the new bean tepee since it had to move to make way for the coop.

Newly decked out playhouse. It wasn't well received when dusk came though...so I became chicken councellor, nursery rhyme singer (Simon thinks I'm officially nutty now), giver of pats, cuddles, and soothing talk...and all was then quiet.

I replanted all my nettle seedlings into one patch alongside my comfrey plants (which only disappeared for winter a few weeks back and are already sending out new shoots). I got brave and positioned the nettles by holding the underside of their leaves and managed to not get stung.

Nathan had his winch out (bucket in tree).

Danielle making tea and cake.

I then removed a pile of rubbish from outside the garage. I told Simon, when MY garden shed arrives (a hand-me-down from my parents) that MINE won't be filled with rubbish and will be catalogued and organised...hehe...he called me a geek.

Emptied the compost bins into 3 of the garden beds and got them all going again.

Cleaned out the bathtub/water trough and let it fill with fresh water.

Harvested some silverbeet, kale, spring onions and leeks for tonight's stir-fry.

Ahhhh, another successful day.

PS: The vinegar worked even under pressure - with all that work that went on today, it was a success.