I see lots of things, sometimes more than I wish. The same goes for hearing but I can feign deafness like Walter Mitty (ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa) and drift into a 2nd life fantasy world. Some folks may understand… I think they call it a hobby. (Just kidding, honest!) What I saw is wood. Just another comment here of what woodworking is like when one uses a very accurate and powerful table saw. The Powermatic almost makes me...
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The Rains Left
This is the next day after the heavy rain. This is taken from the same position as the second picture in the post below. I cut the grass today but the high water debris mark was clearly visible. The high water mark was just out of frame to the left. That makes the actual high water about three feet left of the fence line in the picture. There is also a water mark on the...
Continue reading...The Rains Came
On Thursday night 5/3/07 about 7:00 PM CDST Frisco, Texas was hit by a rain storm delivering many inches of rain and 80 MPH wind. The wind did us no damage but it flooded our lake as high as it has ever been. The water was flowing across the road at the low end. This is a view of the backyard taken from the porch. It was actually pitch black and still raining, but I...
Continue reading...A Thinker’s Dam
Brother Jim (up in Flat Rock, NC) sent me some videos of his dry pond. Well, it did have an honest to goodness babbling brook running through the middle. It also had a few inches of mud at the bottom. He tells me he just took 40 truckloads of mud out of that bottom. He called it “cleaning out the pond”. It must have been a mud pond. Now he is going to build a little dock, fix the...
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