Well, I got rocks today. Not sure why I pick a day of over 90 and no wind and high humidity to get out and work the yard but I did it today… actually when I got out early it was real nice… but by the time I got into the harder part of the work it was just damn hot… Sweating like a sinner in church I was…
Gathered myself up, and got the trailer hooked up to the jeep early… and off to town… but first breakfast at Braums… had a need for the breakfast burrito and some tea… once that was down I whipped it on around to the pharmacy and left a prescription to be refilled, said I would be back in afternoon but plumb out forgot that return trip? guess I will have to make that run tomorrow… Anyway I got out to the Rocks and things place out south and this time had a sample with me to check against the available rocks but none of them exactly matched what we already had but since it would be hidden at the end of the row I got what would come semi close to what we had… got it loaded on the trailer and …. OUCH! paid the bill. When he was saying $0.17 a pound for the border rocks and figured the other might be about the same I didn’t imagine I would get that many pounds but it sure adds up fast…
That is $147 worth of rocks?… didn’t even really make the trailer squat? oh well…
I had laid out the barrier material some time ago and got some plants in and it was ready for the rocks… so ?
I moved the red wall rocks out, straightened up the curved end in the bottom and then laid out the border rocks on the barrier material… then laid out the fill rocks inside all that… and it looks a lot better now.
I still need to put in some more of the bulbs in the middle and get a bit more water on the grass clump on this end but it is essentially done…
I had a few rocks left over and since the upper corner had washed and fallen down I figured , why not build it back up and fill it back in where the down spout comes out… so had to do a little digging and placed some of the bigger rocks under the border ones that should help hold them up as well as smooth out the dirt on the outside to fill in the hole… it got to this point at lunch time..
But geez I forgot that the drip hose was so shallow and cut it so then had to go get some repair parts… I thought I had a couple in the drip box but no such luck… so back to Lowes for more parts.. but will do that after lunch..
Took off at noon for lunch in town and I was hot, sweaty and already wore out… so since we went to Wendy’s for lunch we shared a frosty for desert there… that was pretty good … Remember I had left the prescription to pick up after noon… well as I started out that direction I thought , maybe Sears had some better Bug zappers as my old one had died… so I stopped off there , but they didn’t have any… he recommended Tractor Supply… From Sears I headed to tractor supply but they didn’t have any… the lady said , “last year they sent us a whole pallet of them and this year we got none” oh well… so then it was back to Lowes for the plumbing parts for the drip line.,.. at first the box for the 1/2 inch couplers was empty and I was about to give up when… I thought…? what are those boxed behind for… so I pulled one out and sure enough it was a box of 1/2 inch couplers… so I opened it up, set it in front and took two out… They must have had a run on stuff and the plumbing guys had not restocked? I helped them out…
I got my parts and headed out… but by then I had totally forgotten the prescription but on my way home figured I should check Walmart for a bug zapper of the right size and configuration… I don’t like those one with square screens the dead bugs just get hung up and you have to clean them out all the time so I look for the ones with up and down bars… well they had one and it looked ok so I picked it up and then figured … hey it is damn hot and I still have some rock work to do so I better get some Beer… for after the finish… I went over and got the beer (looking for interesting can designs for some of my other projects )… then I figured I might grill some chicken kabobs so needed some chicken breast tenders, but wait, why not add some stuff to the kabobs that I don’t have… I do have an onion and pepper but some jalapeno pepper would be good and maybe some mushroom? ok, at that point I needed to get out of Walmart…
Got my supplies home… took the bug light out and set it up with the extra mosquito attractant in it and then finished up the drip line repair and then finished up the rocks… ooops forgot to get a finished picture… tomorrow… then while testing the drip repair I found that the timer/valves were leaking real bad… never noticed that before… so I set out to get that fixed… finally found that it was the washer in the valves had been squeezed apart and was leaking through them so I took those valves off, got two out of my box, got them on… hooked up, tested… no more leaks… great… then spent some time getting the pinched off rubber washers out of the old valves and hope that they are now ok to reuse when I get new strainer washers for them… so back ion the box… and get the trailer moved out of the way and the tools put up and … crap it was 4pm by then… I went out and got the mail and pretty much gave up for the rest of the day… although after supper I went out and did a little more gluing on the new airplane… I might have it done by the end of the week?
With a few more pieces cut out and glued, I headed in for a shower and bed… it was hot out and it ain’t even in the upper 90’s yet… But the beer sure was good…
WD0AJG