The first went well, the second still needs sealing. 🙂 The little rain showers we got last night perked up the moss on the rocks, and also on the ground. I wanted more moss on the rocks, so I used a plastic putty knife to lift some from the ground. I placed it, wet it […]
I started at 0700h this morning, determined to get the liner installed. Got the underlayment in place. A bit awkward in the case of the big sheet, but not too bad. Smoothed it out, making folds where necessary to fit it. There. Underlayment installed, and I managed it myself. Now for the liners! […]
I took a vacation day…and used half of it to sort a literal ton of rock by size and suitability for pond use. I also cleared out and levelled the bottom where I’d been stomping around when it was full of water and soft mud. MAH rox. Before I sorted them, I’d experimented a little […]
The botanists answered my request about the plant I thought might be ironweed. It’s not: it’s something better!
B saw this baby five-lined skink running across the shop floor this afternoon, and C helped me catch him. Work isn’t a good place for a very small lizard, so I brought him home in a box and released him by the creek. Very cute, very fast. This guy was a J when I got […]
The biggest of the Spicebush Doot-doots is starting to turn green. All three are still alive; the smallest still looks like poop, the middle guy looks like faded poop, and this one is starting to look like a snake. EDIT: Not a great shot because it was getting dark, but I watered and fertilized everything […]
Well, potential flutter friends. I did some deadheading and tidying up in the Bistro tonight. I also chopped the old lady’s lilac short because it was starting to look worse than it had in the original spot, but I didn’t take a picture. Anyway… It was a rough year for the Heliopsis (C said hers, […]
The more I looked at the waterfall yesterday morning, the more I thought the wall needed to be just a little wider, so I dug up just a little clay from the bottom, and built it out a bit. I made a before and after…clicky-click to enlarge. Sarah-Flah’s backstop looks rather good now. One small […]
Well, pretty much. A few touchups here and there, and of course I need to flatten the footprints in the bottom once it dries (if ever…rained this afternoon, raining now), and P still needs to run Hot Rod over the stuff I raked out around the edges, but the grunt work is done, and I […]
That’s like progress, but with more mud. I took half a vacation day yesterday for two reasons: first because I was working toward a migraine, and the way to head one off at the pass is not sitting at a desk, staring at a computer screen; and second, to work on the edges of the […]