Hey Steem lovelies!
Yes it's an early start for me today (about 6.30am as I start this post) as we are halfway through staycation and today 
Anyway more about Date Day next post. I'm sure there will be lots of instagrammable photos of food and drinks and views of the Sydney Harbour. We really are getting through the eat out more guidelines for having a great staycation.
Today is an exciting day at our place. Over Christmas during the great altcoin price spike we managed to off load a few coins and pay off the credit cards (a blessing at that time of the year!) and stash some away for a project we have not been able to afford.
You may have noticed from some photos of our place we live on 5 acres but much of it is steep embankment and hard to maintain as well as not the safest. With a little one (god willing and hereon after nicknamed Jellybean) on the way when the adoption assessments are done, we want to make the place look a bit better and a bit safer.
The plan has been to start developing the slopes into gardens. We started when we first moved in - with a veggie garden. However this ended up costing much more than we expected, pretty much all that we had put aside for any renovations. That was three years ago. We are finally in a position to do something about the other slopes.
The first garden project - three times the cost and three times as long as expected.. but we do love it!
Really this is all thanks to Steemit. Steemit was our first foray into cryptos, and it was a big learning curve! But if we hadn't taken that first step we wouldn't be where we are right now! We took a deep breath and decided to invest some money we'd saved into steem and then some other cryptos and we haven't looked back. (This is not investment advice please do your own research and be prepared and comfortable with the fact you may lose what you put in just as easily as you may make money)
Anyway, here are the before photos, over the next however long it takes our builder to finish I'll post progression photos, hopefully this goes much smoother than the last landscaping project we had!
At the top will be a friut orcahrd and the slopes have retaining walls and be mulched with beautiful natives (that dont get upset if I forget to water them)
The steps will be replaced with sandstone pavers and the rusty old handrail replaced
The slope at the front of the house will be terraced, mulched and planted with natives
Can't wait to get rid of all that bracken fern and have some nice natives
The gear is arriving - where's the builder?
The other big news going on at our place is of course The Great Keto Challenge. Only three more sleeps. I'm undecided if I post before and after shots.... pretty sure
Meal plan for week one is done and Sunday will be shopping and meal prep.. meal-prep without a lovely glass of red in our hand will be a new one but I'm sure we will manage: Anyone it's pretty hot here so a nice iced tea served up in my favourite red wine glasses should go down okay... positive thinking!
So that's the randomness going on today in my head. Can't wait to get cracking on all the new beginnings happening at our place! Life is definitely shaping up to be full of opportunity in 2018, for which we are ever grateful.
PS - Our little Jack Russell likes the view from the verandah as well - he's made himself quite at home!
Til Next time - Steem on with Love and Light.
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