HANGING BASKETS?

First up... THANK YOU to everyone for the lovely Birthday Wishes yesterday.  They were much appreciated, and cheered me up after the horror phone call from the moving company.

Happy to say we have another company coming out tomorrow, and they assure me their quote will be NOTHING like the first one!  Phew!

I took a lot of satisfaction in rejecting the quote from Crown Relocations last night.  Daylight robbers that lot!

Now... I've been thinking about all things 'new house' constantly.  Funny that.

One thing that I will be doing fairly quickly ... 

ABOVE: the studio was an addition to the house, and it's only about 1.5 meters from the boundary fence.

I'm not exactly rapt with the view out that window (WHO WOULD BE?).

So, I'm thinking of using hanging baskets attached to the fence.  Make it a hanging garden?

I reckon that would look nice. 

... Having just looked on Trademe at hanging baskets, I'm now going with this:

 ABOVE:  They look really interesting!  And exactly what I think will work on that wooden fence.
I'm looking forward to filling it up with plants.
It's called a Vertical Garden.

And yeah, I have already ordered one!  lol  I will get one set up before deciding if I need another one.  Best thing?  Super cheap compared to buying wire baskets. It cost about the price of ONE basket!    (note): I will not be getting plants etc for it until we move obviously.

It's good to get these things sorted early right.  lol

Today I'm going to ring and get a few things organised for 'the other end'... like getting SKY installed, internet up and running asap, power and gas off here and on there, book a glazier to come in and install the dog door in the garage door... and the list goes on!

Thank goodness I'm an organised, 'write a LIST' sorta person!  In fact, I have an exercise book full of lists:  To Do, To Get, To Pay For, Before We Move, After We Move, Furniture measurements etc.  *smiles*

I wish now I'd taken measurements of the living rooms and bedrooms in the new house too, then I could plot where furniture will go before we even get there.  But... I didn't.  Drat.

Right, time to go and get some washing on, have me porridge and start the day.

ONWARD...

12.14 pm: Ticking on with the day... just pottering around the house doing odd jobs really.

I've started a corner of 'leave, don't pack' stuff', like cleaners etc.

 ABOVE:  I've also put a few things here that we will be putting into our 2nd Storage Unit.
I didn't want to get a 2nd storage unit, but it's going to cost WAY less than having the moving company take it.
Just means more work for us. But hey, we are free.  lol

Later on today I am going to start putting garden stuff in big plastic buckets and in a couple of weeks will take them to a girlfriend's carport till we move.  Again, less for the moving company to do, and us pay for.

I've got one moving company coming tomorrow, and another next week.  So one of them will no doubt get the job now.  Thank god we have options.

LUNCHTIME...

Well... I had lunch, then a girlfriend visited and I got to relax for a little while.
Once she left, I took everything from around the back (all the small stuff) and put it out the front.  Ready to take to a girlfriend's carport.

ABOVE:  After moving all that, I felt a bit tired.  So I had a nap.  That was wonderful, though I've woken up feeling like a slug.  

Stew should be home from Rotorua soon, then I suppose I will have to cook some dinner.

I've got pork chops out, so it should be a nice one.

9.51 pm:  dinner was rather nice, can't beat a nice pork chop and veges, with a rich gravy.
Now... watching TV, then heading off to bed.