Looking almost emerald here. Was a sopping wet mess after four and a half inches of rain in three days, but the drainage is drainagizing and water is moving off-property. Snow on the surrounding hills too, so cold and more rain in sight – hope everyone is having a nice quarantining!
Not Clauswitz 
Yay for green! And you’re sending a LOT of rain our way. Over 2 inches in the last two days. Supposed to be cold/wet tomorrow after mid 70s today and clear all afternoon. Sigh
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It’s been a strange week with all the bars shut down!
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Cheers for that! I hope you and the missus are well, all good here and just doing what I always do as I’m not one for social interaction at the best of times. If you hear grinding of teeth in the distance that will be my kid sister down in the valley….she is not happy at peoples behaviour!
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Yes indeed the Valley People can be extremely irritating! If it were up to me the Sheriff would close all the freeway exits and prevent flatlanders from coming up into this county!
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Given that your “pond” will be a dry rock bed in another few weeks, why not move the pond to the bottom of the hill and have it longer? Or was the goal just to remove the water as effectively as possible.
On other notes, my 2003 Road King has been down since Christmas with an out of alignment flywheel. Waiting for the parts to come back from my machinist for the engine rebuild.
My 1992 Fatboy works fine but then the weather got nice and I thought I’d go for a quick putt. Wouldn’t start last weekend. Started the next day when it didn’t matter. This weekend the battery made the dreaded click-click-click noise. Well that explains why it wouldn’t start last weekend. Probably not cranking fast enough. Thankfully the Harley Davidson store has not yet succumbed to the panic and I was able to go buy a battery. Today I get to replace the battery and, if the weather cooperates (it’s still sort of very cold (high 40s/low 50s but sunny), maybe I can get out for a bit. Figure it should be almost impossible to catch the WuFlu from a motorcycle.
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Removing the water mainly, because the ground is pounded hard-pan and doesn’t absorb, so the water can sit stagnant till June. Hard to tell in pictures, but everything drains to the center of the property mostly, so that is where I located the French drain/Dry Creek. On the right side is the overflow catch-basin from my neighbor’s pond, the rock-filled semi-circle of terrace block. Beneath the rock there is a smooth, eight-inch perforated pipe that runs about six-inched underground the entire width of the field, and exits on the left below the silver pipe… The force of the deluge overwhelmed the small-ish terrace-block and collapsed one corner of the catch-basin, so I’m going to rebuild that thing s summer with larger and heavier block.
Because I’ve become an inconsistent rider, I must keep my bikes (and the John Deere too) on Battery Tender brand “smart” trickle chargers. More rain coming and I think my grass-seed mix must have all washed away…
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You mean, “Happy Saint Drunkard’s Day / Boomer Remover”?
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With the Irish it’s genetic, like red hair, they can’t help it…with me it’s a choice!
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