Darkavich's Daily Ramblings

Man I was sore today. I guess I was using muscles yesterday pulling out all the muck. I still have a leak somewhere, but it is a lot slower. I will take a look at that later this week.

I spent most of the day scanning in cat photos. These are photos from before the days of digital cameras. I have an awesome HP scanner, but it doesn’t work on the mac. So I have to keep around my PC/Windows system for that.

After that was done, we decided to go do some cloth shopping for our vegas trip. Many every store, but the department stores were jammed packed. Mostly with kids!

Ok, today was a messy day. I decided to go out and start cleaning out the pond. It started well, but then I realized how bad it is to plant egyptian papyrus in water unconfined!

The roots grow into a mass of muck that were almost 5 inches thick. that’s about 1/2 the depth of the stream and upper pond.

I was able to clear out the connection stream, and cleaned out about two thirds of the top pond. The roots did me in. I will have to go back out tomorrow and finish up the job.

Pictures of the finished work to come later.

Well we decided to remove the Torrey Pine tree out of our back yard. This tree, while gorgeous was a big pain in the neck. It woudl drop needles like crazy… Clogging the pond and cover the entire ground. The tree was well over 60 feet tall. The scary thing is it’s not even half the height it would grow to.

The removal process was incredible. The guys climbed up the tree and started removing limbs. They would swing them around using ropes and creative cuts making them land in the exact spot they wanted. It took them about three hours to bring it all down.

I now have lots of firewood now. I have to rent a log splitter though so I can break it up into smaller pieces. Anyone that wants to come over and help, is more than welcome.

We left the stump in the ground because it may make a decent base for my train bridges. It’s too awkward of a hill to grind it out. Once we clear the hill we will have a better idea of what we have to work with.