Saturday, May 9, 2009

Knit free Saturday

Yesterday was a national holiday in Denmark, so after a day of rest we decided that today is the great gardening day.  We bought our house a couple of years ago and the people who lived here before were a little special.  The garden around our house was obviously loved some years ago but has fallen into disrepair over the years due to neglect and most corners of the yard have been overtaken by large bushes or piles upon piles of junk like cans of unused paint, old gutters and used paving stones.  Ultimately, the garden had good bone structure… she just needs to lose a few pounds in order to be considered pretty again.

A friend came down and helped load a trailer full of garden waste – mostly old branches and the like – and then unload them again at the local recycling center.  I started refurbishing the old terrace by ripping up the weeds and moss growing up between the stones and found out that there is actually a lot more terrace in the back yard that anyone thought!  there was a good 1 meter that was covered by plants over the years before we bought the house.

So later on as we got ready to call it a day, Jesper started poking around in the corner of the garden that he had just worked all day to clear of debris.  Much to our surprise and delight, that was also covered in terrace, so all-in-all, the half day of hard garden labor unearthed (quite literally) a good 20 square meters of stone terrace that NO ONE knew existed.  I have decided just now that this new terrace needs a hammock or a hammock chair so it can be a real knitting corner.  I am so looking forward to that!

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