Bats!

Mike and I were driving down the driveway the other evening, and saw flickery little shapes bouncing about in the air over us. It was a bat, most likely a Little Brown Bat, Myotis lucifugus. We've discussed in the past how we would like to help them along by building boxes for them.

This Seattle Times article has some good basic info about our little brown friend, and a link to a Fish & Wildlife site about building a bat box.

I love bats.

Greenhouse Built on the Cheap

We know we need a greenhouse. We thought we needed to rob a bank... This site has a great article on how to build a greenhouse on the cheap.

Using Rocks In The Garden

Today the Seattle Times ran an article on using large stone in the garden . We love using stone in the garden - if you hadn't noticed. They're limited in size to what I can carry, however. Mike has managed to wrangle some larger stones left behind by construction into more pleasing positions near where they were left, but we are stymied in moving larger stones any distance. Where are the builders of ancient Stonehenge when you need them?

The last few months, we've been trying to figure out how to move some very large rocks over from the neighbor's. A rock bar, mentioned in the article, is just the thing. Where to find a big bar of steel?

Unfortunately, the article suggests you buy rock. Buy rock??? Omigoodness. They can't be serious, can they? Go visit a river.

Of course, my favorite rock hunting ground is up on the Cowlitz River, near Packwood. I understand the recent flood to have ripped through the area, so there should be some new rock to look at up there. I'll have to wait until May however, as the road to that spot is gated through the winter.