Still alive, and growing, but not yet out of the bird poop stage.

I had to change MLB feeders, too, so it was almost dark by the time I’d finished, but we got enough rain last night that I was able to plant the last two, long-suffering Wine and Roses weigela that I got ages ago but had kept on the patio. They don’t look like much now, […]

It didn’t start until nearly 2100h, so no pictures, and there’s a thunderstorm with it, but I’ll take rain however I can get it! In the meantime…flowers. FINALLY, lobelia! The camera lens and sensor cannot do justice to the beautiful, clear, true red. Great blue lobelia, grown from seed this year, but might get to […]

Catching up for Friday, Saturday and today. All I have left to do on the pond is level the sides of the deep end, rake out and/or carry away extra soil, and we’re ready to install the liners. Jesus, what a lot of work this has been, and still lots to go! So far, my […]

Only one, but one is better than none!

B’s house had a ledge around the top of the brick like ours does, except theirs was sandstone and ours is concrete. They took off the brick and the ledge, and when I was going to buy concrete pavers, he asked whether the sandstone ledge material would work. I said it would, and he was […]

I’ve been rather lazy about posting, but slightly less lazy about working on the pond. The top bank of the waterfall is starting to take shape. The concrete blocks and plywood are there to support the edge so I can pound the crap out of the top level to compact it.   The ridge needs […]

Surprise! Pond

These pictures are actually pre-rain, but I was so disgusted at watching my poor garden die, taking with it insect habitat and sustenance, that I didn’t give a damn about pictures. Crappy shot, but the light was bad when it occurred to me to take a photo. This looks less like a baseball backstop now […]

Garden is suffering, and it rains everywhere else. Mother Nature just says, “Fuck that town in particular.”