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Birthday fountain!

Posted by Matthew Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:37:00 GMT

My lovely wife gave me a solar powered fountain for my birthday a few weeks back:

Fountain

Our new solar-powered fountain (filled with reclaimed rainwater) because we are hippies.

It is excellent and completes my end of the duo pact that my pal Dan and I agreed to. We were inspired by our neighbor to each have both a Japanese maple tree and a fountain. Dan had a fountain that he put together himself (very impressive) and I have a rather meek looking Charlie Brown Japanese maple (it will make a come back in the Spring). Now I have an excellent fountain. I’ll probably upgrade the rocks to black river rocks (Dan ordered a box for this fountain) but, otherwise it is excellent. The solar pump charges for up to 8 hours of sun-free operation.

This past weekend I added a bench. Now all that is left is to deal with the mosquitos or hope the season actually changes to Fall and we can sit outside without being devoured alive.

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New front plant bed

Posted by Matthew Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:30:00 GMT

We got around to fixing up the front yard a bit. Here’s the new plant bed:

New front bed 2

Featuring: the somethingorother switch grass. And more of the lovely mulch.

This involved a trip to Behnke’s, which is always a treat, and pulling out the shrub that sat between our house and our pals at 733, which was less of a treat and more like recess at the gulag. A week later I still have large cuts on my forearms from dragging that thing out of the ground. It has now been replaced by some switch grass (on the left). We also put in some Japanese grass. I’m going for a grass motif down the left hand side of the property. We may end up putting mulch through out the front yard as the grass isn’t doing so well. At least we managed to get something into the hard-as-concrete clay soil.

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