Pieter Captured our Estate + Progress for me to View While in Limburg

 After doing the usual watering in the morning for keeping plants and shrubs alive, using the electric pump and water from our pond, Pieter made another round for me to SEE how our Estate looked like.

June 7, our Magnolia Grandiflora 'Namnetensis 'Namnetensis Flore Pleno',

A near perfect bud

Looking inside

Our Fiberglass Window Boxes alongside veranda and bay window area of kitchen on June 8.

These are our double greenish white flowering petunias; Blanket® Double Chardonnay Petunia Plants ←click link

Our Moonflower, a night blooming Ipomoea

Near our Vinyl Picket Fence Hibiscus syriacus 'Diana' - Rose-of-Sharon 'Diana' 

Our double blooming Hibiscus syriacus Jeanne D'Arc

Fiberglass Window Boxes on retainer wall near driveway on June 9 with Golden Lantana that trail down.

Detail and you see an empty can of wood preservative for Pieter's Wood Trail Mega Task...

He spent quite a lot on that trail, going back and forth to Home Depot.

These photos are all from June 9, around 8:40 after breakfast time.

Looking all so lush!

Our Palm trees.

Palm Trees with the tall Italian Cypress.

And all Pot Plants around...

Happy and well cared for Pot Plants and Palm Trees!

Our Home seen from the back, taken from the gazebo area.

We both love the sight of the house without that humongous live oak there.

The bare spot still needs to fill in with grass but in a couple of years, that too will be done!

The progress of the Wood Trail on June 11

Detail with the axe to the right for attacking roots that were in the way...

Pieter's shadow is visible with his iPadPro.

Another short 1:55 minute update on Pieter's progress, captured on June 11.Oh, I KNEW that he was aiming for having it all DONE when I would come home!

Photo taken on June 14, around 8:15 after breakfast.

Showing all the cut up 22 inch boards, that Pieter got at Home Depot.

By having several rotten boards he was short of several in the end.

We used to buy those 22 x 22 inch squares with boards from Lowes in 1993 through 1996 but they are no longer available. Only 3 seconds, video taken by me on June 21 and to the right you see the blue tarp that went over those 

cut up 22 inch boards from Home Depot, to protect them from heavy rain.

The FINAL part seems always to be hard. 

Photo from June 21 shows clearly the elevated way of this newly laid wood trail.

The rotten boards and beams that were buried in the ground still needed to be gathered up along the trail.

We also need to get rid of the black bottomless trash can, left on our property by some workers...

Related links:

Our Agapanthus and Wood Trail | showing our first Wood Trail laid out

Pieter's NEW Love—While I was in Limburg | previous post by mePieter Capturing his Progress on the Wood Trail while I was in Limburg | previous post by me{Our Hibiscus syriacus 'Diana' - Rose-of-Sharon 'Diana'} | previous post by me{Our Hibiscus syriacus Jeanne D'Arc & Our Life in Italy} | previous post by me

Pieter Capturing his Progress on the Wood Trail while I was in Limburg

 While I was in Limburg, Pieter got determined to finish our Wood Trail, adjacent to the gazebo, till the greenhouse in the back.

A short 2:26 minute video of his progress on this Mega Task.Taken with Pieter's limited iPhone on June 5, around 15:50.I'd gone to bed and was asleep when I woke up shortly past midnight and used my iPhone for another video–call via WhatsApp, to tell Pieter that he better uses his iPadPro instead, as that is unlimited. This is the immediate result, captured at 18:30 after supper, in this short 1:30 minute video.Quite a challenge for getting past our HUGE laurel oak tree Quercus hemisphaerica.It made me feel very proud of my 93–year old Pieter who is tech–savvy and also very clever in conducting this final task!

The grass looked rather lush and you can see Kwekkie standing near the pond.

Greenhouse in the back and gazebo to the left.

Speckie, our youngest kitty–girl, is watching over the wooden poles that Pieter hauled back home for placing under the Wood Trail, for elevating it out of the ground so it won't rot that easily.

Thus we stayed in touch over 8,000 km away from each other but still maintaining a Blissful Relationship and Pieter also had the kitties as companions...

Related links:This section got last done when Mom was in her final days | previous post by meHusband Pieter Finished Restoration Work on our Bridges on Wood Trail | previous post by me

Pieter's NEW Love—While I was in Limburg

 One never knows how life is moving forward...

Pieter worked very hard on the Wood Trail, while I was in Limburg, solo.

Short 3 second movie with Kwekkie the white duck that befriended Pieter.

AND, Pieter got enamored; who would NOT?!

She worked almost side–by–side with him on the Wood Trail repair and replacement...

Observe her left foot here carefully as something dramatic happened to her while I was back home.

Kwekkie is a friendly white duck and she is especially fond of Pieter.

Pieter's hand, full with potting soil as he just has potted several plants.

Watch her left foot...

She obviously got attacked by a Snapping Turtle!

For several days she could not walk and Pieter had to bring her food + water.

She then went again inside the pond and it seems her foot did heal but those two webs between her toes will never be like before!

She seems to be happy though.

Zoomed in on her foot...

Our pond is her favorite area

Yes, she adopted Pieter and is getting used to me as well.