I like to do the grocery shopping early in the morning, especially during the three months when the ‘Winter Texans” have their annual Rio Grand Valley migration and our local HEB grocery store becomes packed by mid morning. It always amazes my how there can be hundreds and hundreds of grackles perched on the electric wires around this intersection. This time I finally had enough time to take out my phone a get a photo of a small portion of them.
While I was busy with the new planting beds, the wife was busy giving the backyard shrubs a trim.
My thoughts were to give the white sage a trim all over to keeps its shape.
Obviously her idea of what to do in regards to how to trim it was vastly different from mine. Only if I would have trimmed it when we first talked about some time ago, but I didn’t, so I’ll just bite my tongue and hop to it next time.
Unfortunately there was a bit of a problem with how she wanted the raised beds positioned. There was no water outlet for the 4 foot bed in the center.
Problem solved. Dig a trench, install pipe and problem is solved. I always wait a day when installing the pvc irrigation pipe to allow the pipe cement to fully set. Better safe than sorry.
More raised beds! She liked the look of that first one we bought three more. This is the placement she has decided on.
These come in the gray color in only the 2 feet by 4 feet size and she really, really wanted a 2 foot round one. No problem. We ordered three more 2 foot by 4 foot beds and then assembled them as a 2 foot round, a 2 foot by 4 foot and a 2 foot by 6 foot bed. The result was exactly the look she wanted. Just took a little thinking outside the box.
Earlier this week SpaceX conducted a Wet Dress Rehearsal on a fully stacked Starship as it continued to move ever closer to the first launch of the the world’s largest rocket. It doesn’t look it but it is 395 feet tall and has 5,000 tons (10,000,000 pounds) of liquid fuel and oxidizer loaded into it.
