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Backyard heirloom vegetable garden
I’ve wanted to grow my own vegetable garden for a while. I used to have one when we lived across the road (yeah, we used to live across the road from where we live now because we are just awesome like...
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Jumping up and down in muddy puddles
“FLOWER!” Daniel exclaimed as we entered the nursery (the flower kind, not the baby kind.) He loves flowers. But I’m sure I’ve mentioned that before. We walked along, both kids pointed and poking all...
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5 tips to help you maintain your lawn in dry months
Yesterday Aaron, the kids and I went to Bunnings in search of something to help our lawn. We spent ages each week out the back before spring manually pulling up all the bindii plants so the kids would...
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5 Backyard activities for kids
During the long summer holidays, none of our regular activities (play group, kindygym, bible study) are on, so we are left with warm sunny days and nothing to do. Luckily, today’s guest post is here...
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Veggie garden
Aaron has been busy making me a garden in the backyard. We don’t have a big yard, but I still want to be able to plant vegetables/fruit/herbs. We also want to have room for the kids to run around and...
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The bug cage
I seem to have accidentally killed all of the snails that were occupying Hannah’s bug cage by not feeding and watering them, and leaving the cage in the sun. Oops. I guess that whole hibernation...
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The cage of doom
Remember that caterpillar we caught eating one of my heirloom organic Australian butter beans? Yes, that one. I’m pretty sure it’s a looper caterpillar. Well, he/she has made a silky cocoon and is...
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The suicidal cockroach
Hannah selflessly decided that she wants her whole class to see the caterpillar in her little bug cage turn into a moth, so we gave the cage and all of it’s inhabitants to her teachers and got...
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Something I’m passionate about
We’re back!!! The cruise was fun, but it will take me a while to go through all the photos and pick out all the ones I want to post with our cruising story. In the meantime, I’ve submitted two images...
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Eco warrior
I’ve always liked gardening. Maybe it’s because we didn’t have much money when I was little. Fancy toys were out of the question, but outside of our mobile home/trailer, we had a large yard and a...
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