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Darn right there is, we're blessed with far too much beauty. People, I don't know, we're an interesting bunch. Figure we'll live longer than Dinosaurs? Anyway, if you look you'll see signals, all the time. Good graces, sometimes not, but you grow. A level of balance. Up and down, opposites, probably because it must be.
Good graces; like my place in 2014, which was struck by a flash flood. There's a large covert directly behind my property corner, in the backyard, it's all downhill from there. Anyway, the developer/city only dumped a little rock in the bed on top,, and it was nearly level too. 10 minutes of hail required 160 hrs. my labor with hand tools, for cleanup and improvements. The 300L ft. of rock wall I had already built in my back yard laughed at it, water squirted out of it 4' (OMG!) at least, but sand everywhere. Even with that labor, there just wasn't enough rock to fix what was coming.
Next to that covert is a BA lot of which 70% is vacant. Doesn't make sense for the owners to use it, there's a BA easement for the city's and developer's puss near attempts to account for the covert. Anyway, open my gate I'm there. New neighbors with many 100s K to blow (Californians☺) on their new house and toys, were to have their place landscaped. Their property is primarily boulders and rock. Good graces I didn't have that problem (post holes, hand tools, BA lot), but again, I'm downhill so 1000s of years of sand, clay and small rock, Develops hard pan, but I'll take it. It's all rock and clay above me.
So in 2016, which was two years following my improvements from/for flood, a landscape company cleared the rock from the top of the new folk's property, which landed in the empty lot near the covert run. They didn't know what to do with it. Nice big stuff, hand size too, jagged, makes things tight. Enough rock to fill 1/4 acre. So I asked, and they gave the thumbs up. That almost literally fell onto my lap. Getting rock to the area would otherwise be near impossible by hand, it's a steep climb, rocks are heavy. I'm strong, but only 155 lbs., and the only way to get there is with a wheel barrel. Three at a time, and 100-300 feet from my truck, uphill.
I built channels and a levee with it, 4-6 feet wide x 330 long. Wasn't that bad, maybe 35 hours with hand tools. Good graces, because the covert ran heavily for 3 months straight that winter. I couldn't believe it, basically a creek from the BA hills on the other side of the road. Below my property line left trenches 3.5' wide and deep, my place would have been demolished; insurance doesn't cover outside for starts, we couldn't have lived there, the house was 75% my worth. That was the first time in 16 years I witnessed a drop of water spill from that covert pipe, and it's run almost every year since. Before the improvement we got some water under the house, but even with the run 50' away from the house, there's no longer a drop. Didn't expect that. I don't belong to a religion, don't feel the need to. But IMO, if you think you can or can't see something, think again, most humans can't even see past the indoctrination on the TV, when we should be looking elsewhere.
I literally channel the water to the Mayor's place
known her since 5th grade. They have the next pipe down, it's bigly, and an eye-sore too. Figures the developer actually developed that area.
Good graces; like my place in 2014, which was struck by a flash flood. There's a large covert directly behind my property corner, in the backyard, it's all downhill from there. Anyway, the developer/city only dumped a little rock in the bed on top,, and it was nearly level too. 10 minutes of hail required 160 hrs. my labor with hand tools, for cleanup and improvements. The 300L ft. of rock wall I had already built in my back yard laughed at it, water squirted out of it 4' (OMG!) at least, but sand everywhere. Even with that labor, there just wasn't enough rock to fix what was coming.
Next to that covert is a BA lot of which 70% is vacant. Doesn't make sense for the owners to use it, there's a BA easement for the city's and developer's puss near attempts to account for the covert. Anyway, open my gate I'm there. New neighbors with many 100s K to blow (Californians☺) on their new house and toys, were to have their place landscaped. Their property is primarily boulders and rock. Good graces I didn't have that problem (post holes, hand tools, BA lot), but again, I'm downhill so 1000s of years of sand, clay and small rock, Develops hard pan, but I'll take it. It's all rock and clay above me.
So in 2016, which was two years following my improvements from/for flood, a landscape company cleared the rock from the top of the new folk's property, which landed in the empty lot near the covert run. They didn't know what to do with it. Nice big stuff, hand size too, jagged, makes things tight. Enough rock to fill 1/4 acre. So I asked, and they gave the thumbs up. That almost literally fell onto my lap. Getting rock to the area would otherwise be near impossible by hand, it's a steep climb, rocks are heavy. I'm strong, but only 155 lbs., and the only way to get there is with a wheel barrel. Three at a time, and 100-300 feet from my truck, uphill.
I built channels and a levee with it, 4-6 feet wide x 330 long. Wasn't that bad, maybe 35 hours with hand tools. Good graces, because the covert ran heavily for 3 months straight that winter. I couldn't believe it, basically a creek from the BA hills on the other side of the road. Below my property line left trenches 3.5' wide and deep, my place would have been demolished; insurance doesn't cover outside for starts, we couldn't have lived there, the house was 75% my worth. That was the first time in 16 years I witnessed a drop of water spill from that covert pipe, and it's run almost every year since. Before the improvement we got some water under the house, but even with the run 50' away from the house, there's no longer a drop. Didn't expect that. I don't belong to a religion, don't feel the need to. But IMO, if you think you can or can't see something, think again, most humans can't even see past the indoctrination on the TV, when we should be looking elsewhere.
I literally channel the water to the Mayor's place
known her since 5th grade. They have the next pipe down, it's bigly, and an eye-sore too. Figures the developer actually developed that area.
