I'm Julie, and I live with my husband and three young daughters in New South Wales suburbia, Australia. This is the online journal I kept until recently, of how we are trying to live more simply & sustainably in suburbia.

This blog is on indefinite hiatus but please feel free to look around my archives for some inspiration in your own journey to living more lightly and sustainably.


Saturday, December 06, 2008

My house.

Aaaaaaaaaah. Thank goodness it's the weekend again! Another insanely busy week has gone by, complete with DH developing a nasty full-body rash plus pneumonia and having (three doctor visits, one set of chest x-rays, two different lots of anti-biotics and) three days off work. Plus he's not to ride to work for another week, so that means a week of negotiating drops offs and cadging rides with co-workers (who don't live nearby). At least school for Miss Seven has finished for the year now (though preschool has another two weeks), so that's one less thing to sort out.

Speaking of which, is it really December already? I've forgotten to read my meters. I always read them on the first of the month and it seems to be the 6th already!

So, clearly, I need to be mucking around on Google Maps instead of doing something constructive.

Can you tell which house below is mine?




I'll give you a hint.


Since this was taken, over half the backyard (sideyard actually, since it's next to the house, not behind it) is now vegie gardens (the half to the left of the steps, which is the brown sticky-outy bit in the middle).

I think we win for having the most trees though.

6 comments:

goingferal(ish) said...

I guessed :) Hopefully mine will look like that in five years!

Kez said...

That sounds nasty - I hope DH mends soon!

(I'll be over for a visit now I know which house is yours lol)

Veggie Gnome said...

Hope you are enjoying a lovely weekend! All the best to your DH!

That quiz was easy! :) It looks great, well done! And where is the close-up of all your fruit trees? ;)

Yes, it is December already, and I must admit, I am still somewhere in August or September. Somebody must have pinched a few months! How did that happen?!

Julie said...

Hi S,
Well guessed :-) My biggest palms and trees are about 6 years old - I *so* wished I had been planting fruit trees then instead, how great they would be by now!

Kez mate, you are welcome over anytime! Seriously, email me if Billy is playing football over this way again and we'll catch up :-)

Hi Veg,
Thanks :-) Glad to see someone else has 'lost' a few months as well! Whoooosh! The time flies doesn't it?!

Cheers,
Julie

lavenderbay said...

Oh, eek, pneumonia! (I would blame it on the overdose of first graders, but then I haven't had one myself for twenty years and my memories may be faulty. ) I hope your husband feels better soon.

The Tin House said...

Julie, hope the poor health has passed and the boy is well again. Cute post re: the maps. We looked at our place a few nights ago, and while we've lived here for 5 years, the photo was taken in 1999 after our house block was cleared. You can see the pile of timber! We know it was 99' because FIL's oat crop is being stripped in his back paddock.

It will be very interesting if it ever gets updated.

Lisa x

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