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The lower one is the beginning of benchwork, and the upper one is for storage. http://rustypaulus.com/the-waterfall-project daily 0.75 2013-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975424203-C4NTKFL7VHVCS86PZ3UD/IMG_4900.JPG The Waterfall Project - First step, we laid out the outline for the waterfall with a garden hose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975430076-ZFG8VOWKTIWNV04HG7UO/IMG_4898.JPG The Waterfall Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975727981-ZAH88VS2YV94AM429MOV/IMG_4922.JPG The Waterfall Project - More digging, adding sand and leveling the area for the wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975550257-BKYTOX7NBMC2IVS2LYWV/IMG_4920.JPG The Waterfall Project - Rusty started digging the grass out of the space. It was hard work, and he replanted the grass in areas around the property. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975781120-11SJ56SN0LD192D5CGRA/IMG_4962.JPG The Waterfall Project - Wall in place, water host covered & filled with garden soil. The dirt has been generally shaped and stones placed where the falls will be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975880720-7XAXUDPF4N0LFI2S65VI/IMG_1433.JPG The Waterfall Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975807838-VJQND8EMLYMT6ZTW9K8H/IMG_1415.JPG The Waterfall Project - It has amazed us how much garden soil it took to fill this! I think I went for about 4 pickup loads! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975833660-CHJDLEIUXFST4DRYUC8Q/IMG_1417.JPG The Waterfall Project - The grate is placed about where the retention basin will be buried. We decided the wall needed to be a couple of levels higher and come around the sides a little more. Back to Home Depot for more bricks, and the Living Earth for more dirt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975856883-B59UF0Z4OQC6RPDYMRHK/IMG_1432.JPG The Waterfall Project - Now some of the detail work begins... determining where the flow will be and starting to get the liner and stone banks in place. You can see the tubing that will take the water to the top of the falls, where it will end at a gravel field which drains to the retention basin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975905701-UUHE1PKFB2IBAS8770OL/IMG_1436.JPG The Waterfall Project - View from the top of the falls See all those little stones on the banks? Rusty used landscaping foam and glued each one to the liner and each other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975924169-YBA0SJALCGFG7AMVGT5U/IMG_1577.JPG The Waterfall Project - Almost done with construction! The water is flowing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975949054-SLPQWUY42BTAIJ43LAGK/IMG_1586.JPG The Waterfall Project - The water makes a lovely sound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975972285-8HAZD7K9T5Y4NY7TW55P/IMG_1598.JPG The Waterfall Project - The view from our office window https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377975996158-JNOZ7UMI8YGC3VM5BH9P/IMG_1610.JPG The Waterfall Project - All complete! All the plantings are beneficial to birds and butterflies, most providing food. The birds have even planted some of their own birdseed, so we now have red millet and sunflowers growing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377976016637-64TOPBEJ2WGS2UXPCU1F/IMG_1618.JPG The Waterfall Project - The view from the courtyard deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377981565296-309VVCJPM2Q9366BZ6F6/waterfall-bathers.png The Waterfall Project - This is our reward for the hard work... and the birds show their appreciation every day! :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377987929795-XRMZX19RGPOBKTK3TXS6/IMG_5480.JPG The Waterfall Project Duranta is great for butterflies and hummingbirds, and does well when times get a little dry. http://rustypaulus.com/home daily 1.0 2013-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377640618995-9WPT2O4571WTWO4H4NNJ/delaney+junction+2.jpg Home Delaney Junction on the old Cheyenne Mountain Railroad layout. Photo by Bob Werre Photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377643426607-ERAFYAX113900TKJWT0S/building-lumber.png Home You want to build a house? Where? http://rustypaulus.com/read-me daily 0.75 2013-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4fd1028ee4b02be53c65dfb3/1377122138273-T4CY2P9250M4AKM3YGHZ/Brand%27s+creative+mind+%2820130821%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4fd1028ee4b02be53c65dfb3/1377122430471-3N5PIOOQ8YDNX5VOP807/CRAINE%26JONSON+%2820130821%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4fd1028ee4b02be53c65dfb3/1377122107913-PW08QOSWT7TOGMPCJLIF/HELLO+ZSO+%2820130821%29.jpg Read Me http://rustypaulus.com/bayou-timbers daily 0.75 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404576016716-GARDPY4QGMUHO61U9ET8/IMG_0302.JPG Bayou Timbers - Property is cleared! May 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404576104247-WNQQ5THFF9U36IXXX4CT/IMG_0553.JPG Bayou Timbers - Laying the pad for the foundation June 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404576157575-OVKGBAGLDOVHFHKGWGTQ/Framing1.jpg Bayou Timbers - Walls start going up. Excitement builds in July 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404576262062-CK38GORHF7G7LF974UXS/IMG_0870.JPG Bayou Timbers - More walls... and more dirt! July 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404576367100-BX4LGF73PXL0LQZVPVWK/IMG_0889.JPG Bayou Timbers - Still more walls... then a roof! August 2011 is a month for lots of changes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404577026692-HR0RPLJ9JFM0XXUNWHRA/IMG_1435.JPG Bayou Timbers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404577069281-QVNQYHKT7UTIDLPONSPB/IMG_1544.JPG Bayou Timbers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404576488532-9PTK05RGJTR1T139W36A/IMG_0987.JPG Bayou Timbers August 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404576490140-P1XIOJN7ALIZQMZ75JOZ/IMG_1026.JPG Bayou Timbers August 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404576527905-WTMHP14T3N0QVWO2J5VR/IMG_1069.JPG Bayou Timbers August 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404577244542-8U9EGAXT2AIYC1FKXM3Y/IMG_1627.JPG Bayou Timbers September 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404576545793-XKF8DSXT2KSWB5KQU6VZ/081311-1.jpg Bayou Timbers August 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404576938741-DAA8QMZ2QKQRSBPJ56O1/IMG_1211.JPG Bayou Timbers - September 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404577315054-SP5O97OITQWKMXMBFVAF/IMG_1897.JPG Bayou Timbers September 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404577254148-MJX28J2Z49TNB5BPSLLQ/IMG_1625.JPG Bayou Timbers - September 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404577150796-VEAF5OT4H0Z23F9405AI/IMG_1585.JPG Bayou Timbers - Ash Ash likes watching the dirt work... from a safe distance! And, of course, playing in the dirt, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404577637449-CT4004KUDSRSUVNG7LE2/IMG_2600.JPG Bayou Timbers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404577394412-NE5TSTHVL6GORYXIBZGS/IMG_1998.JPG Bayou Timbers Late September 2011... getting close! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377785627762-8AH3KR616HISUCOC82RB/IMG_5332.JPG Bayou Timbers - Eastern Bluebird & Carolina Chicadee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377785645547-LI9WHCBF605HLKXUMF1A/IMG_5360.JPG Bayou Timbers - Waterfall with Bluebirds and a Cardinal The cardinals have learned the fine art of bathing from the bluebirds who are absolute masters! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377785757930-IVRSVVOCH87YA25HAWMO/IMG_5374.JPG Bayou Timbers - Just one of the little guys... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377785877266-MSN1FMIEJMISVIAQT6MG/IMG_5427.JPG Bayou Timbers - Eastern Cottontail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377786011941-PAJRKQO4TXO5CDO6IF6C/IMG_5501.JPG Bayou Timbers - Juvenile Cardinal, Bluebird & Pine Warbler They LOVE the waterfall! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377785960732-CHBN0EWN8MJA8K26SO7A/IMG_5469.JPG Bayou Timbers - Monarch caterpillar on Butterfly weed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377786072697-WK8VHBNHEB1XIV9PMZRZ/IMG_5561.JPG Bayou Timbers - Monarch chrysalis (and a snail) in a safe place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377786103375-8M9LGJY88SIBO0Q1807C/IMG_5569.JPG Bayou Timbers - A Monarch seconds after its first short flight! It's dark color will brighten as it loses the moisture from it's birth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377786198181-YN0NJBOKE8A2OXCRJNW2/IMG_5616.JPG Bayou Timbers - Hummer in motion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377786178808-8XRFPWO6FFA9QDUQB68G/IMG_5613.JPG Bayou Timbers - Female Black & Yellow Garden Spider https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377819904043-XB6TBIGI4F52J73NBII1/juvie-hawk.png Bayou Timbers - Juvenile Cooper's Hawk It landed in the trees just outside the office window... looking for lunch! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377895143623-863HP8FJF1LLVOTDX398/IMG_3970.JPG Bayou Timbers - More hummers We love to sit in the courtyard and watch the action! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377894855677-NLYBUEROQRHXB1X86N9A/what+bird.jpg Bayou Timbers - Female Red-Winged Blackbird https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377895341240-SWSST194NBBJ69UBXF9T/IMG_4741.JPG Bayou Timbers - Pine Warblers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377895476011-WR2KBIKV76UJCFLQXTYP/IMG_4985.JPG Bayou Timbers - American Goldfinch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377895594370-IV5RSQANBO4B3YYSTE38/IMG_5053.JPG Bayou Timbers - Curious Cottontail right outside the office window. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377895611047-NAZP2L4QF64B5DK1ZMNN/IMG_5057.JPG Bayou Timbers - Baltimore Oriole https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377895682756-UEFXJA5OT8UAY6BXCGEF/IMG_5075.JPG Bayou Timbers - Male & female Rose-breasted Grosbeak https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377958041213-L5F4QJ6QQFGIBW9CYPAE/IMG_4760.JPG Bayou Timbers - This year our cardinals have had a population explosion! Must be the good food! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377958035228-V8DWP70CS3G7EVEY1R8Z/IMG_5063.JPG Bayou Timbers - Black-crested Titmouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377980839252-PGQURN7LR3TC1JFM0ICP/IMG_1395.JPG Bayou Timbers - Yep, that's a bobcat... just taking an evening walk right down the street! We were on the deck in the courtyard. He just stopped and looked at us. Couldn't get a good close-up with the iphone... not that my hand was shaking or anything! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377980907108-WUKNR0YF53W5ELEU4PSV/IMG_1685.JPG Bayou Timbers - After this we started giving the squirrel his own place to visit. Now serving! Peanuts and sunflower seeds out by the 75-foot pine tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404499356347-L4FJ53122T4XWN20QFGU/IMG_2067.JPG Bayou Timbers - The "Secret Garden" Ash & Lance (his dad) helping out in the shade garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404499508385-2LPGJGP9LA1TC1XWWUML/IMG_2068.JPG Bayou Timbers - Rusty in the Secret Garden This will be a place for bromiliads, hostas and other shade loving plants (and people!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404499372171-Q9EO0QB26111ZODUL92Y/IMG_2114.JPG Bayou Timbers - Water Lily Pond The water lilies are almost jumping out of the courtyard pond this year. http://rustypaulus.com/about daily 0.75 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1439227510015-9A39MQ7OU890TDDYPTY7/image-asset.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1439226333669-NDG8JEV280AAEKAGPEAP/image-asset.png About Our Mini-Museum... as you enter the foyer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1439226408219-O9R9Q302P0FHL9HZ58T7/image-asset.png About opposite wall of mini-museum :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1439227459999-RVJ60BELTZSAL9F5VNR3/image-asset.png About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377780930683-LMRQJMJTIQ6S0R8RTMG0/IMG_2230.JPG About Building trains with Ash. Rusty's "train boy" adores his PawPaw. http://rustypaulus.com/taking-the-plunge daily 0.75 2014-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377893927454-55QY6DDSAD3HKEREHT13/IMG_0770.JPG Taking the Plunge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377893427917-CIIVRYGIYPF45O6UQVT6/IMG_0777.JPG Taking the Plunge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377894100564-D9FF39NU7OWAEMZXF0JV/IMG_0787.JPG Taking the Plunge - The first walls are going up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377894343582-B9TW1FJR9PANVYWGCJIK/IMG_0794.JPG Taking the Plunge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377894633466-XR7KCU47FU8T4786UE57/IMG_0824.JPG Taking the Plunge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377894544975-8BH8EPNSTJNEXPELEVRH/IMG_0812.JPG Taking the Plunge - There was so much lumber it seemed to cover everything! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1377897884141-WX5PGQ8ZLQ9RSNC72MBT/060110-6.jpg Taking the Plunge - Taking a walk up the street. Property is on the left. http://rustypaulus.com/the-courtyard daily 0.75 2015-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404579532830-QEP3CAEXNCSRF98WJUE7/IMG_3009.JPG The Courtyard - The first addition to the courtyard We had this small pond in La Porte, so of course the fish had to move too! Later it will "magically" change into a larger nature pond out back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404579536811-WHJLDX2DYHHYGM0DAY65/IMG_3012.JPG The Courtyard - The Courtyard begins as a sand pit between the main house, the garage and Mom's apartment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404579602530-I62608QW5A66FTGG72UA/IMG_3676.JPG The Courtyard - Rusty starts building the deck... Perfect, as always! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404581095195-U0ZLC25ID7UHMVVWEP9T/IMG_3672.JPG The Courtyard - The deck under way Rusty revealed later that this was his first-ever deck to build. Well done! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404579681069-FMHMAKUVS6AR1AHIEMY0/IMG_3688.JPG The Courtyard - Teddi checks it out Our 17-year-old Chow mix checks out the deck and the start of the flower beds. We lost her in 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404579697707-QY6ETQLE9KQC7V1MJMTF/IMG_3874.JPG The Courtyard - Flower planters match the waterfall and add some bit of privacy for the courtyard, while still giving us a view of the birds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404579765608-BE3GGLN8AZCE1CWG4YHJ/IMG_4252.JPG The Courtyard - Well under way here... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404579764902-S6NMMBP5TNFQY2RATYGP/IMG_4266.JPG The Courtyard - A view from the portico... Other flower beds are being added, and will have lots of treats for the hummingbirds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1404582658622-4G3NFCHTGGMNFIQSE7OU/IMG_3968.JPG The Courtyard - Hummers We love these little guys! These ruby-throats will swoop by us at lightening speed as they vie for territory. Then they'll perch in the small pines waiting for "intruders." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1439225323338-MZUPZK7KDU7BM8RJO4IR/gooey.png The Courtyard What boy can resist a yard full of new sand! Ash decided to help by working the sand in really good. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1439225318977-UFE46JWG1R0OVGUODU9L/feet.png The Courtyard Boy, that must feel good! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1439225318922-YHNJV9332MW1JQMDBTF6/fun.png The Courtyard Nice and cool for a summer day in Texas! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1439225326881-0BSMR6R8X8Z4ZS9ZETTN/handful.png The Courtyard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/521cee57e4b0f75230d49c7b/1439225329771-SZH16AWGK2JZ437TQMTK/WHAT.png The Courtyard And then PawPaw came home! 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