The rocks for my garden retaining wall were delivered yesterday afternoon. Oddly enough three tons of limestone doesn’t actually take up that much space. It wasn’t even two full pallets. Today I moved all of them into the back yard four at a time with the wheelbarrow. So tired. Tomorrow and Friday will probably be wall construction days. I need some sand to bed them on but I don’t think I’ll mortar them. Need to talk to people who have done this before though before I decide about the mortar.
There are a lot of flowers in the yard right now including some I wasn’t expecting. I suppose I should not be surprised that the maple makes flowers. After all, the trees produce seeds and there aren’t too many ways to do that. They’re pretty small but with my discovery of the macro setting on my little point and shoot camera I got a picture or two.
The macro thing is nice. It makes taking pictures of the pretty things in the yard a lot easier.
Those last two are the wisteria out front. It smells really nice. A young man came to my door just now and informed me that he could stand next to this lavender (wisteria) all day and that also he wanted to give to me a security system for free (except, you know, monitoring and options and taxes, etc. etc. not that he mentioned any of that). Apparently crime is on the rise out here in the Oort cloud. We’ve had five homes burglarized and the mad scientist up on the hill is nearing the completion of his death ray so on and so on. I don’t appreciate the scare tactic nor the hard sell. I also don’t understand why everyone wants to come in the house. You know a good way to keep people from robbing your house? Don’t put on public display that you have a bunch of stuff worth stealing. Not that anyone would be interested in my 15 year old analog CRT television anyway. That’s the second free security system I’ve had offered to me within a week.
More flowers!
Finally, there’s the matter of the unknown pink flowing shrub in the back. My new found camera feature allowed me to get a close up picture of one of the few remaining flowers and some of the leaves so if you know what it is let me know.
