Guess what I did yesterday...and am up after 3 hrs of sleep b/c I'm overtired? Give up? You should, you will never guess;
I built a Beaver dam, a retaining wall type dam about 15-20 feet long for now. We have the creek eating the bottom of the hill and into our yard. While water is nice, it can be a real problem at the tail end of a creek b/c of the wetlands bringing down the trees. I like trees, so I fight back.
I slogged down the hill and into the muck to drive in my anchor poles...I was able to push in a 4" thick branch, 3 feet deep into the mud! The beaver dam is the simplest to erect using a couple of long logs and a pile of Christmas tree boughs to start the intertwining between the logs, then I built it up 18" or so. and caked it using leaves and natural peat....then I repeated the process so it's a double thick barrier. I'll wait to see if this is a good solution before extending it.
The neighbor has tried building his yard up with leaves and yard debris but his yard doesn't have any "woods" so he doesn't have much natural material to work with. I have 3 years of a brush pile to reinvest!
The retirement curse is a real thing and I seem to see a fairly common situation. Someone stops working for a living and thinks they "earned a rest" and they take it....and get a LONG one!
I stopped working b/c I wanted to do what I want to do now, not what someone wants me to do. There's no "stop", just redirecting my times and energy to MY wishes!
I built a Beaver dam, a retaining wall type dam about 15-20 feet long for now. We have the creek eating the bottom of the hill and into our yard. While water is nice, it can be a real problem at the tail end of a creek b/c of the wetlands bringing down the trees. I like trees, so I fight back.
I slogged down the hill and into the muck to drive in my anchor poles...I was able to push in a 4" thick branch, 3 feet deep into the mud! The beaver dam is the simplest to erect using a couple of long logs and a pile of Christmas tree boughs to start the intertwining between the logs, then I built it up 18" or so. and caked it using leaves and natural peat....then I repeated the process so it's a double thick barrier. I'll wait to see if this is a good solution before extending it.
The neighbor has tried building his yard up with leaves and yard debris but his yard doesn't have any "woods" so he doesn't have much natural material to work with. I have 3 years of a brush pile to reinvest!
The retirement curse is a real thing and I seem to see a fairly common situation. Someone stops working for a living and thinks they "earned a rest" and they take it....and get a LONG one!
I stopped working b/c I wanted to do what I want to do now, not what someone wants me to do. There's no "stop", just redirecting my times and energy to MY wishes!
. The puppies are 2 weeks 5 days old today. Their eyes are open and they're squiggly and learning how to sit up and yap 
he's only about 9 days there in the picture. He is 3 weeks today 
