doot doot doo, lookin' out my back door
May. 27th, 2007 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightWell, that resolution failed resoundingly. I haven't taken any pictures, good or bad, since Tuesday, and I haven't opened the can of Photoshop whoop-ass except for cropping and minor touch up.
So we'll go with an overdue post about local goings-on.
First (from a few weeks ago), a chicken hat:
With the longer days and nicer weather, we've started letting the chickens out in the yard a lot more. We used to put them in a small chicken tractor, but they're happier with access to the whole yard, and they've shown no inclination to go out of the yard.
I've been digging over the garden, which has made them especially happy. 500 square feet, spread with horse and chicken manure in March, dug in and turned over by hand, with a pitchfork and shovel. Some of this has been garden for nigh on 15 years, but I'm still turning up rocks the size of Yugos. But I'm also turning up worms and grubs, which is what's making the chickens happy.
I'm not even quite done turning the garden, having euthenized two ailing boxwoods today, and reclaimed the land they occupied for the garden. It's almost Memorial Day, we haven't started planting. No wonder we don't get any produce until August.
Second, this is actually taken from across the street:
On the left (with the rail fence) is our back yard. It doesn't show well in the picture, but the scree slope below the fence runs about 30-45° down to the flat bit by the new road. When the project is finished (and Jesus returns), we'll get the slopy bit, and the town will get the flat bit as a right of way, but we'll get the use of it. In the meantime, I just heave rocks over the fence from the garden, because, really, wouldn't you, if your property was abutted by 300' of ass-crap raw earth?
On the right side, beyond the retension pond, is this god-awful 12' high concrete retaining wall. That's a full-size back-hoe perched on top. When it's done it's work, and the ground inside is filled and leveled, what do you suppose is going to perch there next? My guess is a god-awful house to match, looming over, well, everything.
These are not cheap houses - they were originally priced around a million, now in the 800's. And this is the First thing you see when you drive into the development.
So we'll go with an overdue post about local goings-on.
First (from a few weeks ago), a chicken hat:
With the longer days and nicer weather, we've started letting the chickens out in the yard a lot more. We used to put them in a small chicken tractor, but they're happier with access to the whole yard, and they've shown no inclination to go out of the yard.
I've been digging over the garden, which has made them especially happy. 500 square feet, spread with horse and chicken manure in March, dug in and turned over by hand, with a pitchfork and shovel. Some of this has been garden for nigh on 15 years, but I'm still turning up rocks the size of Yugos. But I'm also turning up worms and grubs, which is what's making the chickens happy.
I'm not even quite done turning the garden, having euthenized two ailing boxwoods today, and reclaimed the land they occupied for the garden. It's almost Memorial Day, we haven't started planting. No wonder we don't get any produce until August.
Second, this is actually taken from across the street:
On the left (with the rail fence) is our back yard. It doesn't show well in the picture, but the scree slope below the fence runs about 30-45° down to the flat bit by the new road. When the project is finished (and Jesus returns), we'll get the slopy bit, and the town will get the flat bit as a right of way, but we'll get the use of it. In the meantime, I just heave rocks over the fence from the garden, because, really, wouldn't you, if your property was abutted by 300' of ass-crap raw earth?
On the right side, beyond the retension pond, is this god-awful 12' high concrete retaining wall. That's a full-size back-hoe perched on top. When it's done it's work, and the ground inside is filled and leveled, what do you suppose is going to perch there next? My guess is a god-awful house to match, looming over, well, everything.
These are not cheap houses - they were originally priced around a million, now in the 800's. And this is the First thing you see when you drive into the development.
