Velagota: June 2014

Guest accomodation Video

We've had another wonderful houseful of guests over here for Rick's 50'th birthday and Ishbel's moving here! (congratulations you two!)

We've had a brilliant few days- and while things are quiet (and to delay the housework!) I thought I'd do a quick video of how we are getting on here.

Please excuse the wobbles and quality (and the fact i didn't straighten the quilts properly- you didnt notice? oh you will now ;-) - as you can tell I'm certainly no camera-woman! but this will give our friends another small update of life at Velagota :-)

Guest Side Outside area

So- we finally were at a stage when we need to tackle the 'other side of the house'.

Guests arriving means we needed to open up the area outside the guest suite- take out some pine trees, build up the retaining wall and level the ground. Plus we needed to create an access into the guest suite, without having to traipse through the main house

'before'

Tree felling

Filling and Levelling

'before'

'after '

After- A fab (and shady) area to sit now

with a glass of wine of course...

So we still have to landscape this area - and we have some great ideas, but that will have to wait for now

Early Summer Garden

April, May and June have just been wonderful here- it's been a pleasure to be outside in the evenings pottering in the garden. We've planted a new orchard and got the vegie garden going again.