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and I'm not really complaining. In fact I'm enjoying the sense of pain! I know I know, but I'm no masochist really, it's just that contented feeling that you have worked hard and have given it your best and hope that things will turn out well, as I'm fairly certain they will, fingers crossed.
I spent the whole of Saturday in the garden, doing this:
This my friends is the new border I have created. If you want to know what it looked like before, then all you have to do is look at the other side... small, narrow and completely uninteresting. What I did is shape it as you see in the picture above, and stuffed it with petunias, probably 80 or so which I bought in four colours: white, red, purple and pink, and laid them out in a design which I hope to show you in a few weeks time. I've even got a white petunia in the jar in the middle, and the reason will (hopefully) be apparent when I post follow-up pictures.
Apart from the petunias, I've got tall grass which I placed at the apexes of the curves to provide backdrop.
Of course, I had to redo the complete drip system as well as move the sprinklers a bit inside. Unfortunately I have had ot cancel one which was right in the centre in front of the jar, but I'm sure it's not necessary as that patch is now serviced by 10 sprinklers so I should still get good coverage.
I've also planted some yellow and orange marigolds in other flower beds, but offset them with the shocking red and purple petunias. I hope the effect will look okay, if not, then I'll yank them out and put a different variety.. it's still very early in the season to do this!
Apart from the petunias, I've got tall grass which I placed at the apexes of the curves to provide backdrop.
Of course, I had to redo the complete drip system as well as move the sprinklers a bit inside. Unfortunately I have had ot cancel one which was right in the centre in front of the jar, but I'm sure it's not necessary as that patch is now serviced by 10 sprinklers so I should still get good coverage.
I've also planted some yellow and orange marigolds in other flower beds, but offset them with the shocking red and purple petunias. I hope the effect will look okay, if not, then I'll yank them out and put a different variety.. it's still very early in the season to do this!
I spied a few water features in the garden shop next to our office a few days ago, this one grabbed my attention:
I almost decided where it should go, but wanted my wife's opinion first (yes, permission!) so she was good enough to drop by the garden shop this afternoon so I can show her what's available. She too - thankfully - thought that this is the one and left it to me to place it in our garden. I paid the guys and they agreed to deliver it within the hour!
Lucky me that today is Monday, that's the day my part time gardener drops in to do the odd jobs, so when they did deliver it, not only my regular gardener was around, but also my previous gardener and their manager! So I set them all to it and after selecting where it should go, we got the shovels and wheel-barrow and started working.
Once it was all installed, it was time to fill it up and connect the pump to the electricity and give it its first whirl..
It works!
After the guys have left, I decided to just sit on the grass and listen to the sound of the waterfall...
It works!
After the guys have left, I decided to just sit on the grass and listen to the sound of the waterfall...
And I was joined by my lovely wife Frances to enjoy the moment even more; sitting on the grass listening to the waterfall....
BLISS!
After 6 weeks of hard work, and even harder heart attacks and high blood pressure, our master bathroom is done.
It most definitely as good as we want it to be, nor as good as it was, but the leak is stenched and we hope that we won't have to dig it up again for quite a while yet.
Rest assured however, that the minute I gather enough spare cash, I shall rip the bloody thing out again and redo it completely with new sanitary wear and tiles. It will do for now though.
You can barely notice from the picture that the first 3 tiles height-wise on the bath tub are actually a different colour than the wall, but with some trickery, I used a protruding border to break the colour gradation which I got installed around the perimeter of the bathroom wall above the third tile, and as the tiles and the border are from the same manufacturer and have the same texture as the pink tiles, it's not too bad and it's not sore on the eye.
The floor as you see carries the same pattern of the beige tiles in the middle (actually it's an L-shape, but you can't see it from the picture) and the white tile which the shop had plenty of.
Believe it or not, they've still to come and seal around the marble counter top and the sink....
It most definitely as good as we want it to be, nor as good as it was, but the leak is stenched and we hope that we won't have to dig it up again for quite a while yet.
Rest assured however, that the minute I gather enough spare cash, I shall rip the bloody thing out again and redo it completely with new sanitary wear and tiles. It will do for now though.
You can barely notice from the picture that the first 3 tiles height-wise on the bath tub are actually a different colour than the wall, but with some trickery, I used a protruding border to break the colour gradation which I got installed around the perimeter of the bathroom wall above the third tile, and as the tiles and the border are from the same manufacturer and have the same texture as the pink tiles, it's not too bad and it's not sore on the eye.
The floor as you see carries the same pattern of the beige tiles in the middle (actually it's an L-shape, but you can't see it from the picture) and the white tile which the shop had plenty of.
Believe it or not, they've still to come and seal around the marble counter top and the sink....
But I crapped all over the bastards yesterday and threw the stupid "tile artiste" out on his ass. The bastard did enough damage...
This morning they brought another "artiste" and he seems to be a bit better at aligning tiles, so there is hope.
There is still another 10% to do before they finish, and that has taken over a week now.
I hate coming to this house now.
But at least tonight there was a nice surprise sprung on me!
