From Jacques Thompson, 12 December 2021
So yesterday we had a front blow thru (which thankfully we were on the warm side of), that left behind 1.25” of rainfall, and the 55-60 mph wind gusts made quick work of undoing all of the leaf-blowing and gutter-cleaning I’d done just a day prior.
The lower garden had a brief stream-visit, enough to keep us from crossing to walk out in the tree farm behind us. But as there is no frost in the ground (as yet), the water quickly soaks into the ground (once it stops running).
Our Stream, dubbed “Ever-So-Often”, comes in from the SW.
And exits thru our Gate on the North. My solid fence (seen on the left), is constructed using panels of Ondura roof panels. The solid fence transitions to wire, as the low area with its intermittent flowing water, would carry away the solid panels. All of the flotsam will need to be collected and placed into one of the beds. Some of the floodwater still lingers, visible thru the Norway Spruce branches on the other side of the fence, upper right.
The raised area on which Andrea is standing was created when the pond was excavated. The removed soil was bermed up around the pond to keep soil-laden flood water (of the intermittent stream) out of the pond. Our pond now occupies the site of what was once called “Lake Ever-So-Often”, as this naturally low area often flooded. The bermed-up sides of the pond are high enough to divert the flow around the pond – well usually. On two occasions in the past, the excess volume of flowing water was great enough to crest over the berm! As what remains of the latest, train-load of crushed gravel is still sitting out on my neighbor’s property, and the only route I have to transport the gravel to where it is needed is up and over this section of the berm, this narrow section will be the last of the graveled areas to be completed.
Tomorrow I’ll be back to rake up the mess and blow debris off the gravel paths.