Journal Notes...DIY Pool Liner, Peacock Feathers, and Lilies

Well, since tomorrow is bloom day, I best dump the camera and log it.  The pool liner has been out and the new liner has just arrived.  Of course, after weeks of no rain, now we can't seem to make it stop long enough to install it.  The pool is 18 X 36.  It has stopped long enough for my husband to do some of the prep work.

Evidenly under the liner is a concrete wall.  We have been pumping out the water...but the rain is being a bit sadistic..

Ignore the date.  Changed the batteries.

We got a 27 mil.  It costs about 1200. Odd something so expensive in a small package that isn't jewelry.

 

My husband removed the gaskets and been tearing off the liner.  He said he needed to repair some of the concrete.  He mentioned that the water under the ground maybe seeping?  Is the water table that low?  No idea...personally

Pumping out the water

Evidently pool lights are different than other lights.  He bought a normal LED light but it didn't fit.  So he bought a pool light...

He is gonna repair some of the concrete...is what I think he said.

Peacock is coming along.  I have about 70 percent of the tail done.  I thought I ordered green food coloring.  I have found I had not.  The coconut liner must go in now.  The morning glory is a really fast grower considering they were just a sprout three weeks earlier.  So I am putting in the liner now.  Coconut liner ..not to be confused with pool liner.

Mom said the tail was plenty long enough but not wide enough.  You can't see the latest feather of red salvia very well but this feather is shorter and wider.  I haven't mulched it enough yet.  There will an identical one on the other side.  Then I am going to outline with mexican heather.  That should (hopefully) remedy any width issues.

They are growing I feel at a decent rate.  

Morning glory, really really grows fast

It is already climbing to the neck.  The next three pictures shows what they looked like three weeks ago.  The first one is the same plants that are above.  Look at the date!

Now that is fast.

Now I am a little worried it might smother the confederate jasmine.

Not gonna take long now for the peacock to be covered.  Last night I started installing the liner.  Didn't take a picture though.

The wheel barrow gives a sense of the size.  Tail is about 20 feet long.

My Aunt Agnes' lilies are blooming.  Along with the weeds.  Trying to take care of one thing at a time.

I have learned the difference between the daylilies and regular ones.  My clue in, is that the regular ones last long than a day :)

Encores aren't blooming like they used to.  I know why though.  I used to feed them constantly.

Can't believe it is the middle of June and I have yet to feed them.  Ah well...have been weeding though.

Record Rain fall

The news stated that we had over 16 inches.  The area residents state 20 inches in 24 hours.  All I know is that I emptied the rain gauge twice and it filled very rapidly.  I had never seen rain fall so hard in my life.

So in the after math, what was the damage.  Not much, very nice given there is a creek that acts as a property line.  It did flood the front field.  The seeds I planted (just planted) probably washed away.  The girl below is my step daughter.  According to the signs of water flow...the water level was probably as tall as her..or almost...

Needless to say the creek broke the berm and then some.

The driveway my husband has been re-rocking? had eroded.

But the peacock still stood.  It's very heavy and is concreted into the ground.  I was happy to see that I don't think hurricane won't bother it if a raging flood couldn't move it.  I was glad I didn't fill it.  Bear in mind, the peacock is over six feet and the debris (thus the water was up to its neck) literally.

That settles it.  I am very happy I did not fill it.  I think it helps not to have had it filled.  What's on it currently is a garden hose the floated up and on it's back.  The rain was was record breaking...so I suspect this will not be a usual occurrence.

The front field always has such black dirt.  It think I know why, now.  It is all the sediment from the creek landing on it.

The front creek is relatively lower compared to the rest of the property.  Glad I planted a willow tree here as well.  Even today (four days later) it still hasn't dried out.

Drive way eroded.

Wildflower bed

Well where the water is puddled...that's gonna be the tail.  Glad I had not planted it yet.

The lilies survived but looked like the had been through a raging river which they did.

Marigolds driving in the middle of the driveway

God knows where my seeds went but some did sprout.

Some of the arches were pulled from the ground but easily remedied.

Still love the creek.

The pool was brown from all the run off.  What was worse was all the rain, water moccasin came into the pool.  Anyone who has a black bottom pool is very brave.  We have seen four, managed to kill two.

Back rose garden is on a slope.  That is a good thing in this instance.

Ever feel like it's two steps forward and one step back?