Love, bubs and life on our little farm

Its been a long tiring weekend - after all the wet weather we have had, it was finally time to bite the bullet and finish off our cobblestone path.

This is a little area between our shed and water tanks - once a hideous eyesore that we have slowly been tidying up and making into the access point for our higher area of the yard. Eventually this higher area will most likely have vegetable gardens (if we can figure out how to keep the kangaroos out that love it up there..). We have also put in some bottlebrush and lilly pilly hedges (small tube stocks so a long way to go) so it should be a lovely spot for the native birds whilst blocking the neighbouring block as our boundary runs along there... but back to the narrow access area...

We have put in retaining walls, raised garden beds, stairs, two framing golden canes at the top of the stairs and now finally a cobblestone path from our main front yard. It involved hiring a cement mixer which Jase had to drag into the horse float to pick up, a huge pile of sand dumped in our driveway, 29 bags of cement and mortar and a large number of cobblestones. Add in a tired sore pregnant woman fighting sciatic nerve pain, a demanding toddler and poor old Jase on his only two days off from a loooong week and it was not a whole lot of fun really. We always think that it's only a "small area" when we start a project and then we realise that our definition of "small" is a little warped by the size of our yards and gardens being rural... making it a very full weekend!

But I love the end result! Here are the photos...