The is where the electric line from the pump house ends up...from here it powers the creek pump and a hideous night sensor light. This "real custom job" as my electrician put it, is on it's way out...as soon as they can get here and start work!
Very by what we sometimes refer to as typical Lake County jobs, I think this one takes the cake.
It is vital that I be able to water my plants, but there must have been a different way to go about getting the power down to the pumps.
In the meantime, while trying to keep up with the original garden and all it's wants and needs, I am trying to undue two months of damage from sheer neglect, lack of watering and years of not taking care of plants properly.
Thursday we did a lot of summer pruning of the fruit trees, and I am trying to get up all the deadfall under the apples and pick the pears, which are ready right now for picking.
All the iris might be salvageable, and I will have to start work on those too.
The biggest job I have is deciding what kind of retaining wall for the pad that was left in the wake of the mobile home. It was completely protected from the weather but is just fill that has been sitting under the mobile for 30 years...one sloping side will really deteriorate this winter with rainfall, and just traffic from the dogs.
I am hoping to make contact with a distributor of Verdura, a cement wall block system that has space to plant small plants in each block. It sounds like a great green system. The website is Soilretention.com.
So now, by more than doubling my lot size, I have found that I have more than doubled my gardening workload, but oh, it is going to be fun, and the view from here makes it all worthwhile.
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