What Crappy Weather Coming Up!

 Starting tomorrow it's supposed to start raining, not just tomorrow, but for the next 10 days! The good news is that it's not going to be heavy rains, but mostly rain, showers, and thunderstorms. The most rain I see for any one day is like about a half inch. Still, rain is rain and not sunshine. Still have a lot to put out on the deck as well as soon uncovering the pool. Just hope when we uncover it the creek isn't muddy, being that's where we got the water4 for the pool from. When it's time to top off the pool, I put a sump pump in the creek and pump it up to the pool.

Here's a picture of the one side of our small flower garden. The other side looks a little bare yet, so I didn't take a picture of it.  The second picture is what we did with an old hand pump we bought. You can find these old hand pumps at sales, flea markets, antique places and they are all nuts what they want for them. $140-$200 or more for an old pump that doesn't even work?

We bought this pump at a marketplace where people have stalls set up inside. We paid $90 for this broken pump which has a small piece on the one side broken but you probably wouldn't notice it if you weren't really looking. The pump already had the pipe connected to it, but the guy had the pump mounted on a piece of 2x12 with to pieces of angle iron welded to the pipe so he could then bolt it to the board so it would stand up.

So, I had to "cut" off the angle iron then grind it down to where the pipe was flush again where it was welded to the pipe. We then bought a half barrel, put a flange on the end of the pipe and mounted it to the bottom of the barrel as well as drill some holes in the bottom of the barrel for water to drain out. Seems like a lot of work and money for something to just plant flowers in don't you think?

Song For Today: Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper (1976)

What's with the song for today? Nothing really, just give you an idea of what kinds of music I like. When it comes to music, I have a very limited number of songs or music I like. Sorry, but you won't hear or see any rap or country music here. I like some country music if it's the "old" country music, none of this newer stuff in the last decade or two. As for rap... like they say, rap, short for CRAP!