Lugoff, Camden and Northern RR

Landscaping Update

etraxx — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:06:57 +0000

Just a few snapshots around the yard. Raining today so won’t do anything.

My ‘garden’ .. that area to the right of the bench will be a small patio’ish area for a grill. The ivy has mostly taken over the area around the tree which is fine with me.

I scratch-built this bench a year or so ago. Weathering nicely I think. Like I said .. the dug-out area is going to be where the grill will go.

The planter is made from concrete edging glued (landscape stone cement) to some concrete blocks. Drain holes drilled through and the thing sitting on the large’ish blocks you see. Pretty simple and relatively cheap.

I was working on this yesterday. The area under this tree stays bare so I decided to see if I could get some-kinda shade loving ground cover .. ivy perhaps to grow there. First .. am leveling the surface. Got this far yesterday before I ran out of top-soil.

Stars as grains of sand

etraxx — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:44:12 +0000

I was watching an older Nova program and something caught my attention. I had heard this before but it jumped out at me just now ..

There are 100,000,000 million galaxies in our universe
Each galaxy contains 100,000,000 million stars
Multiply those two numbers together and you get a number greater then all the grains of sand in all the beaches and all the deserts on Earth …

.. and some people will ask .. “Are we alone?”

Kinda silly if you ask me

Politics

etraxx — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:26:32 +0000

I can get so tired of listening to the ‘Left’ and the ‘Right’. I have a feeling that there are a lot of us in the ‘center’ that the others just tend to irritate