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Gabbie got a piece of mail today......:lol:
IMAG4392.jpg ......she was all over the envelope.....and couldn't wait to get it opened.....
IMAG4394.jpg ....a really good friend found it and thought she would Appreciate a better "dish" to play with......:).....I can assure ya she will make very good use of it.....;)
 

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Gabbie got a piece of mail today......:lol:
View attachment 64562 ......she was all over the envelope.....and couldn't wait to get it opened.....
View attachment 64565 ....a really good friend found it and thought she would Appreciate a better "dish" to play with......:).....I can assure ya she will make very good use of it.....;)
Nice "dish" Gabbie! I hope you have tons of fun playing with it!
 

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It has been pretty wet here the past couple of days, so not much to do....been having to take every "break" to get Gabbie out....;)....she loves her new and old dishes and her ball, the #1 of em all, she has been doing well with Joyce off lead....playing and chasing.....her "work side" comes out with me and she is "on duty"....we patrol the borders and she announces her presence and watches Everything.....she tends to be confrontational to a few things around here....outside cats drive her "nuts"....owls, crows, ibis in her yard....if she knows I'm outside working....every time I come in to take a break....she wants to go out to sniff what was done....:lol:...we have decided to get to working towards some improvement here....most of it is "grunt" work, so will get started on taking advantage of what the weather allows and do some stump bustin, and shovel work....gonna round up some free pallets to have on hand....may use em to cover the windows if somethin blows up all of a sudden....;)....but, gonna seal theses louvred windows with silicone, most of which the handles are broke....have to trap and hold some water in other areas to keep from saturating the drain field area.....:)
 

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You probably know it but those handles can be bought at a Mobile Home Supply if you have any around.

I'm surprised we haven't had issues with our drain field since it is at the bottom of the property where ALL of the water runs to.
I'm just thinking about putting in some "sand traps" to hold some of the water up higher, so more has a chance to absorb deeper....instead of running all to one spot....shifting sand is much easier than realigning that rock there....;)....I have to adress the waterflow on the backside of the house....
IMAG4398.jpg ....the far end of the house is the highest side and with the downpours the gutter overflow runs down the backside the whole way down....I'm thinking of pulling the gutters down and just deal with the dripline....:)
 

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I'm just thinking about putting in some "sand traps" to hold some of the water up higher, so more has a chance to absorb deeper....instead of running all to one spot....shifting sand is much easier than realigning that rock there....;)....I have to adress the waterflow on the backside of the house....
View attachment 64675 ....the far end of the house is the highest side and with the downpours the gutter overflow runs down the backside the whole way down....I'm thinking of pulling the gutters down and just deal with the dripline....:)

Has a similar problem at our last house....we took a plastic 55 gallon barrel, put in under the down spout, drilled a large hole on the bottom side of the barrel and had it flow into a dry river rock bed we made. Could also use pvc pipe to put into drilled hole to make the water flow on the direction you want it to go. It was cheap, looked good and was a quick solution.
 
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