http://house.abarrelofthis.com/articles/2007/10/10/birthday-fountain en-us 40 <p>My lovely wife gave me a solar powered fountain for my birthday a few weeks back:</p> <div style="" class="flickrplugin"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlepinkytime/1457792679"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1403/1457792679_c9d34a8794_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Fountain" title="Fountain"/></a><p class="caption" style="width:240px">Our new solar-powered fountain (filled with reclaimed rainwater) because we are hippies.</p></div> <p>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&#8217;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.</p> <p>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.</p> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:37:00 -0700 urn:uuid:cb2e179b-d92e-4df8-81cf-abd89f7419b4 Matthew http://house.abarrelofthis.com/articles/2007/10/10/birthday-fountain Remodeling: Landscape