As you well know, we've been subjected to six or seven "flash floods" this summer, among them a couple that were higher than we'd previously experienced on this property. FYI: Every cubic foot of ground within miles of us, is completely saturated from all of the rain that has so far graced us, this year - AND -we're expecting another flash flood later today. Flash flooding plus 2.5" to 5" hail plus 75 miles/hour winds is our forecast in which the weather people say they have high confidence! [Credit my own, personal weather guy (Hunky Husband) for getting the latest to me!]
Before we get inundated, again, and before my cleanup work gets undone, I thought I would brag about some of the progress I've made in the past several days.
The first two photos show the major/minor flotsam that was deposited at the boundary zone between our back lawn and the woods.
This photo (below) shows the boundary zone as it appears this morning - following my cleanup efforts.
Just within the woods is a rather clear space in which we buried our last two cats (graves marked by upright concrete monoliths). The next photo (below) shows that area before cleanup. The next photo shows that area following my cleanup efforts. Note that the log in the background of the second photo is just beyond our property line.
As a result of the various flash flood events, we were left with five major piles of flotsam in the boundary zone between the grassland on our property and the woods on our property. As of this morning, I have finished my cleanup efforts on the two piles nearest the house. Below are photos of the larger of the two. The first two photos (below) show the pile in early July and late September. It hadn't really changed a whole lot.
The photo, below is a view of the area that is into the woods from the pile in the above two photos. Originally, I had formed a brush pile in that area of which most had been swept away in the flooding. This is the area in which I "rebuilt" a brush pile from the flotsam in the large pile - plus from the area surrounding my brush pile.
This photo (below) shows a broadside view of the flotsam pile as it appeared in early July.
The last two photos (below) show the area of the flotsam pile as "cleaned up" to rebuild my brush pile, and the brush pile, itself.
To give you an idea of scale: the brush pile is at least two feet taller than my height (5' 5"). Fortunately, Archimedes and I are old pals, so I was able to move logs that weighed much more than my weight (classified info) and the lengths of which extended several times my previously mentioned height. I should tell you that Hunky Husband is more than willing to help; but, I take it as a challenge to avoid interrupting whatever he may be doing!
I salute you -- you done good! That's a lot of flotsam, brush and pretty sizeable logs to be moving around. Do I dare say how jealous I am that we couldn't have some of that excess water you've had out here in Southern California?
Posted by: Joared | October 05, 2016 at 05:13 PM
That looks like a lot of work. I am impressed. And yes leverage is your friend.
Posted by: Ingineer66 | October 08, 2016 at 07:35 PM
Wow, that is a lot of brush and good sized logs that you've been hauling around / stacking up. Looks like you might have gained a raised gardening bed frame there in the 2nd picture? If you didn't already bust it up, put it on CL as a freebie - someone will be more than willing to take it off your hands and put it to good use.
Posted by: bogie | October 09, 2016 at 06:55 AM
Joared--Thanks for your kind words. Five Million acre-feet of water are in the mail!
; )
Ingineer--It is work; but, as a weak old woman, I don't work long at a time - never for more than two hours.
Bogie--Good idea on the planting box; but, it belongs to Tonya. After its deposit where you see it, I lugged/pried it out of the lawn and onto a couple of concrete blocks that I had at the edge of the woods, a few feet back. The next flood, it washed on through our property into Fred's property. In preparation for re-seeding, I asked Jason to either saw up and move a tree trunk that was farther up in our yard (not shown in the photos) and entangled between a couple more of my bird-feeder-supporting 4"x4" uprights or to give me permission to saw it up. Jason sawed/retrieved that tree trunk and took the planting box (and some planking that was half on our property and half on Fred's) home. No, I probably wouldn't break something up without trying to find the proper owner - posting on the neighborhood's website, for instance.
Posted by: Cop Car | October 09, 2016 at 10:28 AM