Saturday started out pretty normally – we went to the local flea market, ran a few errands, got lunch in town, and made it back home in time for the thunderstorm. Since then, it has been constantly raining – most of the time pretty light, but with occasional large cloudbursts. It is still sprinkling today, but I did get out to the garden to trim back some of the foliage from the tomatoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rain put a bit of a damper on on plans for the weekend and this week – I wanted to get the H\u00fcgelkultur<\/a> mound started. I also decided that instead of a traditional birdbath, I want to make a more natural feeling water feature. I figure something small with trickling water down rocks that terminates in a small shallow pool would be perfect. I can shape the mound to provide some shade, in addition to the Japanese maples I want to plant, and the water movement should keep the mosquitoes from using it as a breeding ground. One of the stops we made was a place that sells rock, slate, and cobble, but they also had large boulders and I eyeballed a couple of them that would look quite nice in this landscaping project. Knowing that they just paved over my father’s Japanese garden once the property was sold, I wish I could have saved the boulders from that – transporting them would have been crazy expensive, but the connection would have been nice to have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyhow, the rain has let up and there is a bit of sun right now so I’m going to try to catch up on all the outside stuff…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Song of the day: Trial of Tears<\/a> by Dream Theater<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday started out pretty normally – we went to the local flea market, ran a few errands, got lunch in town, and made it back home in time for the thunderstorm. Since then, it has been constantly raining – most of the time pretty light, but with occasional large cloudbursts. It is still sprinkling today, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t