Decommissioning a Garden

You may remember a previous blog about Lawrence "Giving up gardening". (Click here) Loving gardening so much, people wondered if he would give it up. A week or so back he cleared and raked a garden and handed it over to me. It was a sort of "decommissioning". Knowing my total disinterest in gardening, he suggested that I look at buying lawn turf, rather than trying to grow from seed.

So we drove south of the city and met Tim Prebble, who grows grass. That is him in the photo resetting the irrigation sprinklers.

I learnt that watering this type of grass, a mix of Fescue & Browntop, is critical in summer weather.

Lawrence, in the car, casts a knowledgeable eye over the scene, as we leave with our rolls of lawn.

And here is my first effort at laying lawn. There will be more to follow.

"Continue Flourishing"

Major birthdays call for major celebrations. So last Thursday one of our community, Kevin, aka "Judge", got the full treatment complete with the iced cake.

Seventeen of Kevin's mates got together for a presentation, at our place. Our 90 year old, Fred, summed up the sentiments of the gathering in two words, "CONTINUE FLOURISHING." Then we were off to the local club for a dinner.

Celebrating comes easily to us, especially when it honours a man known for his happy disposition!

For more about Kevin, who continues to flourish see: "More of My Mates"