Cleaned up the leg of the yard behind the garage today, lots of moving weedcloth to get at weeds (because there wasn’t any mulch on the cloth, putting up the little retaining wall for our (eventual) headwater for our (eventual) stream, and just general weeding and picking up and throwing out the accumulated Stuff. I also moved the rest of the big rock pile from the front to this area as it will be the edges of the (eventual) stream. I was at it pretty much all day, but it doesn’t look that much different in the photos. Ah, well. Trust me, big diff! Read the rest of this entry »
Well, give or take the screwholes and some touchup painting. But that doesn’t count! it’s done. We can walk across it! I wouldn’t advise a gorilla dancing on it, but to get to the other side and to be beauteous, it should work quite admirably! (Slideshow follows) Read the rest of this entry »
…are not the least bit mysterious.
The crew from the First Methodist Church across the way showed up this AM at 10:30 and in the next couple of hours got all my work for the next several months DONE and done beautifully. I cannot say enough about their generosity, their cheerfulness…and their darling kids. Yes, we had a bunch, and they hauled rock and shoveled mini basalt chips right along with everyone else. (Slideshow follows) Read the rest of this entry »
(Oh, joy…I never posted this. So…think yesterday)
Our friend Steve just delivered them! Thank you, Steve!
Tomorrow, we’ll paint all the pieces for all three bridges. Get a couple or three coats on in between skating, let them dry overnight…I think we’ll have to bring the cars inside the fence…then see if we can’t get at least the basic structure up on Tuesday. Even that will disrupt the eagle’s flight path. Anyway, hopefully by the end of the week, we’ll have our bridge finished.
Now, if I could just shed my headache and dizziness. Darn it. I think it’s my neck. Don’t really know what I did but in between planting a pretty big Japanese Maple and putting the door in and just the stress and not sleeping well, I think I’ve done a pretty good number on it. I’ve been icing it and using my relaxation balls all day and it’s helped the dizziness, but yesterday while I was weeding….I really began to wonder if my blood pressure was going crazy.
Follow up: going to see OSG and see what she says. If everything is medically OK, I’ll head to my chiropractor and see if he can fix the neck. It’s better today but still far from “right.”
But the bridge pieces are a gorgeous red! YAY!
Flying up from your backyard pond.
I’m just sick. Our fish have been freaked for days, hovering down at the deep end. Not coming up to eat…We thought it was water chemistry. Have been doing water changes and all kinds of things…Today, I was working away in my room, caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye…looked up and there was a gorgeous male bald eagle soaring away…with one of our beautiful koi in his clutches. We ran out, did a head count…and realized we’re missing both Banichi and Jago, our two beautiful black and reds.
I think we know now what happened to our glorious Yoruichi last fall. WAH!
Carolyn’s out setting up a scarecrow squirter, but I don’t think that’s going to help. We put up the sunshade but I think we need to get more water plants…fast.
Poor fishies!!!!!
Does anyone else have a pet that just smells good? (Spouses don’t count. They’re supposed to “smell right.”)
I’ve had three wonderful cats, Effy, Elrond and Efanor. Loved the first two dearly, and Rondo was, IMO, the Most Amazing Cat Ever, but I was never conscious of their smell. But then, they never parked in front of my nose every morning. Efanor is a morning cuddler, and a confirmed smoocher. I wake up every day to him lying across my arm, his head on my pillow and my nose buried in his ruff….and I just realized this AM, I love the way he smells. He always smells…sunwarmed.
Oh…I promised pics of current state of the mural. It’s virtually impossible to capture the color I’m talking about. It’s very subtle blues in the water and sky and green in the main mountain. I’ve enhanced the contrast a bit on the one of the mural itself to try and bring it out, but it doesn’t really capture it.
As you can see, the waterfall is still, which gives the backyard a whole different look. It’s getting so cold at night right now, that we turn it off at night. Since I haven’t “set” the rocks of the fall, I fear that freezing would cause the rocks to shift all funny, tho it would probably be really pretty. :D
I don’t trust them. Never have, never will. Does anyone else share that aversion? Seems like every time I count on one for something important, it fails to go off and when I want the thing to shut up, it refuses.
Now, I realize, this isn’t the fault of the machine, but of its programmer. That, again, would be me. VCRs? never a problem. Computers? Ditto. Wiring a complex of electronic things together, sure, why not? But the logic of alarm clocks, especially the plethora of modern digital clocks, apparently eludes me. Read the rest of this entry »
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