{"id":8701,"date":"2023-04-09T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T21:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/?p=8701"},"modified":"2024-09-22T10:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T14:05:51","slug":"an-unlit-stick-pile-%f0%9f%aa%b5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/09\/an-unlit-stick-pile-%f0%9f%aa%b5\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unlit Stick Pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back felt well enough yesterday that I attempted to unblock the 2&#8243; PVC line that diverts creek water to the pond. I&#8217;d attempted to free the line twice this winter, once failing fairly quickly, and the second time taking extra steps to dig out the spring-fed muck underneath the line&#8217;s only bend, then to snake from both ends with 25&#8242; coil line. No magic in the conclusion. It was plugged at the bend, 20&#8242; up line from where it empties into the pond, and 10&#8242; down line from where the creek feeds it. The problem remained, but I pushed a stake in the ground and left it there until yesterday. Yesterday I was over-prepared. I&#8217;d gathered a belt of implements Wile E. Coyote would&#8217;ve admired. But then I tried again with the plumber&#8217;s coil and just kept at it, and for a few minutes the line echoed <em>tink ta-tink, tink ta-tink, tink ta-tink<\/em> before it broke through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not that the pond is ready to be corked and refilled. I still need to power wash the retaining wall and coat it with something I have yet to figure out, possibly Drylock, possibly a more basic masonry slurry. And that also means borrowing (or buying, but preferably borrowing) a power washer. And more research about the trade-offs with drylock versus other coatings. Trial and error. Should it be sealed-sealed? Or just laxly coated so as to hold on for a season? What is the hoped for horizon with such things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The creek burbles along rocks, pooling in a few places before bending east and tunneling under the driveway. It&#8217;s in a zone of the yard I am now more than before thinking of as Wonder Hollow Micropark. One purpose for the park is to enjoy it and to put seating there where others can sit when they visit. Another purpose is to write a grant to get the park&#8217;s stewardship funded by an outdoors supporting benefactor. I&#8217;d guess it&#8217;s only 700 SF, a narrow strip between the steep bank of the road, the other steep bank of the mountain, and at the far end, the thicket of brambles where any day now hummingbird guests will return for summer. They showed up last year on April 10. The Micropark catches morning sunlight but is in the shade by 3 p.m. Getting to it\u2014also getting the push mower to it\u2014requires stepping over the creek, or edging slowly along slopes of 20-30 degrees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The park has a couple of dead trees next to it. When the winds gust, old branches fall. It&#8217;s nothing clockwork, this slow, branch-shedding funeral. Tending to the park means piling sticks for burning, eventually. Yesterday I tried to light the heap of sticks using as a wad of scruffy stems that had remained upright throughout the winter, and they started, but then stalled. Nah. Wasn&#8217;t to be. 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