Shocked

We're cat minding at the moment. I don't mind minding the cat. But I'm yet to get used to finding feathers everywhere and a disemboweled pigeon at the foot of Martha's bed. It took all my gumption to clean up the carnage and shield young eyes from the gore.

It's enough to make me think about getting a vegan poodle. 

But for now, a sloppy joe will just have to do.

I think some time ago I alluded to having a study. Well, we managed to carve one out of an old recessed area and cupboard.

I did most of the hard work and Marie Kondo helped me get rid of some of the clutter.

Then we got a man to polish the parquetry and then another man to make the desk and shelves out of baltic pine plywood. He did a pretty good job, and we've been studying our hearts out ever since.

I do love a mid-century house but the small renovations we've been doing aren't that true to form. Should I feel guilty?

I'd like to eventually get an Arne Jacobsen wall lamp to replace the current non-descript lamp. That'll bring in some Mid-Century style.

These books are good reads for a five-to-six year old. One has no words and one has no pictures. 

Here's my girl wearing her pride socks as she rollerskates everywhere.

And I've also been gardening. We got another man in to help design a plan for the front yard. But ye Gods it's expensive to get those plans implemented by the professionals, so we've taken his ideas and began the slow process ourselves.

Can't be that hard, surely.

It'll be a mostly Australian Native garden with Casuarina Cousin Its, Green Wallum Bottle Brushes, a Corymbia Summer Beauty, Lomandras, Liriopes, dietes grandifloras, some lillypilly cascades and a Blueberry Ash.

All covered in tea tree mulch to keep the termites away.

We've done the two side gardens and I have to mull-over the main garden because that's where I'll need a bob cat and some help from the pros.

What have you all been up to?