Good morning. It's finally sunny today, I feel like it has been raining
for the last week. Also, sorry if there's like a million claw sounds but
dogs are out, the bunnies are out, it's absolute mayhem in the house right now. So, today I
want to fix up our little balcony area. We have a little outdoor patio. It's not
covered though, so, I've definitely noticed that the stuff that's out there..
it just it gets covered in dust, so I need to clean it out. I have a cabinet
that i want to put out there for some storage
and I've had, it's kind of annoying, like, i've had to buy more storage stuff and
this place we have like a really small cupboard under the stairs and we have
our wardrobe and that's like it in terms of storage. Anyway,
sidetracking.. So yeah i'm gonna do a little balcony
spruce up today. I haven't eaten breakfast yet this
morning because i made this really delicious pear protein oats the other
day and I was like 'oh I might as well just
like, photograph it' then I can upload it to the blog and then it's there for like
a meal suggestion for my clients and things like that. Protein oats are such
an easy way to start your day. Like, you guys know I probably, I eat them a lot.
It's just, it's really filling, like you'll feel full until lunch time.
Oats are so nutrient dense as well and plus you're getting a good serve of
protein with your breakfast. So it just saves you from having to like
scramble to try and get it in your meals later on.
So before I get started on cleaning up this balcony
I'm going to make that for breakfast and I'll leave a link in the description box
if you guys want to try it out.
So, as you can see - no cover. So we're not really protected from the elements. So
here's a little before overview.
It was sort of like, halfway there. I had covered the railings, I've got some of
the plants out there but I- I stopped and I just want to get it
all sorted out before it's Winter and before it's too cold.
So the first thing I wanted to do when I
originally hung these lattice fake plants things just for a
little bit of privacy on our balcony. I used some twine to hang it up and I
just want to go in and put a proper hanging on because I'm noticing that
some of the twine is starting to get weak and break because of all the rain
out there. So I'm just going to use some zip ties
to go ahead and do this.
I'll leave as much as I can linked in the description box as well if you do
want to go and look for any of the things that I've used.
I just thought it'd be so nice to have this area cleaned up because it's such a
beautiful way to spend the morning and I really wanted to be able to have
it done and sorted before Winter, um, just because it gets a little bit too
cold here to be spending heaps and heaps of time outside.
Now I do have half of my vegetable/ fruiting plants downstairs and I just
have some of the smaller ones up here which look nice and neat.
So I'm just going to replant and repot some of my herbs so that I can hang them
around the edge of the balcony and I'm going to let some others sit on
top of this storage little cabinet thingy which I'll be putting out here.
I have a few of these little mini copper LED lights which I'm
going to hang up probably around the window sills because I think it will
look nice at night because we only have one light out there and
there's no power outlet out there.
So I just needed a little storage system for outside to put some like, soil, plant
food, you know basic things like that.. what
have you guys been up to anyway? I feel like um
I'm definitely getting bored of training at home but I mean that's not a bad
problem to have and luckily we do have some dumbbells and
weights and things like that so I can get like a decent workout in it's just
not like my "ideal". I know in some places now um restrictions have just started
lifting. We're in 'phase one' here. I feel like I'm going to
snap every fingernail I own with this.
Oh and in other news, I um contacted my artist, Drea, who did this
sleeve for me because it's really bugging me
and like I've got one hand and not the other hand so I'm gonna get Drea to
extend this sleeve but I'm not really sure when that will be.
I figured I could write the names of herbs and things onto (these).
Now while I'm with the plants I'm just going to go ahead and neaten them up a
little bit. I'm going to pull out any grass which is growing and
chop off any dead leaves and just support these crazy lemons.
Okay let me give you a little tour of the balcony now that I've finally
finished setting it up and it's nice and neat.
I'll also include some of the before footage as well.
So I kept a lot of what we had already, I just reorganized the furniture that we
had and I've just neatened it up and made it
a much tidier place to spend time.
You guys know I love having my plants around and I was thinking I might also
make a video on like growing your vegetables and like
herbs and things at home because I have been doing that for a while now
and you can grow them very easily off of cuttings.
I'll catch you guys in my next upload. Thank you for staying tuned till the end
of the video. See you next time.