retaining wall

here are all those giant rocks, placed neatly along the side yard to form an awesome retaining wall.






and the back deck.

some landscaping

i don't know if you can see him/her or not, but there is a fox on the bog. click on the picture.



and finally some landscaping, sorta. last week was busy, busy with the front wall and walkway, as well as spreading loam. piles of mulch are waiting to be spread out front. this week its sprinklers and then grass. that will probably be it for a while. energy and $$ are low. anybody wanna buy our old house???? deerjumpproperties.com

give blood

how desperate am i to find something to post??? i gave blood yesterday and woke up to this nifty bruise today. there was a problem with the mechanism that switches from the big ole bag of blood and lets them fill tubes for testing. my nurse thought i had clotted or something and told me to keep squeezing. it wasn't me. really it wasn't. i kindly let them fill the tubes from my other arm, which doesn't like donating as much as the other one, but that bruise was not even worth a picture. so anyway, it doesn't hurt and everyone should donate. :)