Month: September 2017
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Water Design
Main frame water design tactics need to be high on the priority list when starting any new project. The first thing we think about when considering whether to buy a property, develop a property, or rehabilitate a property has to be water design. Conventional water design assumed large amounts of fossil fuel for operation and…
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Summer is Back Also
With temps rising to the 80s again this week and another spell of dry weather it’s starting to feel like summer again. Maybe it’s not in the 90’s and cools off more at night, but that just makes it even nicer than summer. The growing season gets a nice little boost and last minute projects…
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I’ll Be Back
Yes, the heron has returned. I surprised the heron last night–or it surprised me, or neither surprised either, depending on how one perceives it. But the heron was at the fish pond and the fish went into hiding again. I’m hoping the problem was that i had moved both scarecrows back a bit further from…
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Irma
I was battening down for a big storm as Hurricane Irma approached and finally demolished the Keys and Florida in general. Today however, when the storm should be giving us a tropical deluge, I’m finding that there is even very little rain forecast for our area. I’m not concerned about water situation though, a quick…
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The Fall
September 6, 2017 Walking back from the fish pond in the rain, I had this new sense of well being, and not just because of the relief from drought and hot temperatures. Of course this time of year there is always the possibility of monsoons, or hurricanes dropping large amounts of water all at once,…
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The daily grind
August 24th For whatever reason I woke in the middle of the night and never got back to sleep. So after much tossing and turning the light finally inspired me to get up–that plus Lucky whining at me. So most of the day was tedious, although I was able to get a few things under…