Contents and Directions
Several people have mentioned that our site is becoming unwieldy (overgrown, hard to find
things, need to have an
easy way to tell when there's something new, that sort of thing). So we're going to try. If this doesn't work we'll try
something else.
There's a Home Page that has our email address and links to each of the sections into which our site is divided.
Each section's opening page has links to the back pages of that section, back to the Home Page, and to the opening page of
each of the other sections. Here's a list of the sections we have so far, with their back pages:
I. The Land - A little about our part of the world
Hurricane Hugo - pictures of the results of that disaster
Land Photos - pictures from around the place
Path Pictures - pictures on the trails around our woods
The Plat - the surveyor's drawing
A Satellite Image - courtesy of Richland County
II. Getting Started - Stories and pictures from the early days here
Bulldozer Photos - Uncle English clearing a spot for us
Mobile Home Photos - where we lived at first
III. Pond Digging - Our second biggest endeavor
The Pond in Winter - before it was finished
IV. House Building - Our biggest
V. Gardening - A never ending joy ( effort, comfort, chore - how do you feel today?)
Yard Pictures - sometimes called " The Latest Yard Pictures," but that might be misleading
More Yard Pictures - after all, there will always be more and we can't be changing titles every month
Backyard Wildlife Habitat Certificate - "No brag, just fact." Yeah,sure
De-Hedging - gardening with heavy equipment
Daylilies by the Truckload - early Spring, 2000
Day Lilies I - Close ups (you want consistency? not here)
Old Yard Pictures - from when the mobile home was here
Mulch - the experts agree
Pruning - dealing with the overflow
Assorted Flowers I - Thumbnail Gallery from the Spring of 2002, mostly
Assorted Flowers II - From the Spring of 2003
Daffodils of 2003 - the first smiles of Spring
Garden Problems - a serpent isn't always the worst thing to find in the garden
Magnolia Illness - a plea for help
Frost Protection - we do what we can
Wildflowers - not free, exactly, but came with the land no extra charge
A Mystery Solved - and a heart busted
Fallen Giant - oak trees are flowering plants, too
Plants Around the Yard - a selection of what's got pictures ready
Mystery Plants - life's persistent questions
VI. Critters - Pets and otherwise
Prissy and Andrew - two of the finest cats, tailed and/or not
Cool Dog - Toby at the beach
Cats and Dogs - why can't we all just get along?
Poor Goldie Has Had an Accident - our vet said we were heroes
Goldie's Physical Therapy - an adventure we'll never want again
The Dears - ungulate guests
Warning - less pleasant creatures - two pages, so far, of our version of x-rated
Screech Baby - we just supply habitat, never know who'll show up
Lizards in Love - or what they'll be doing
Lay, Lady, Lay - looks aren't everything
The Night Visitor - a marsupial interloper
Assorted Birds - they move so soon, hard for us to get pictures
Empty holes - The red-cockaded woodpeckers having moved on
Filled Holes - The non-State Bird Carolinas having moved in
Amphibians - how could frogs be a plague?
Arthropods - what herons do when it's not frog season
Insects, Bugs, and Beauties - A taste for all tastes
Goldie Gets a Bath - into each life, a little rain
Bull (Thistle w/Alien) - they're everywhere
Turkey Day - even the wary sometimes go for the free lunch
Hummingbirds - pugnaciously lovable
VII. Getting Away - Times away from home, physically, climatically, or temporally
Playing in the Snow - with a link to the comic feature:
Snow Pictures - so unusual for here; includes the controversial
Snowman Sequence and
The State Fair - so much to see and to do
A Beach Disaster - into every life a little sorority must fall
Thanksgiving in St. Matthews, 2003
The Fourth of July - Lake Lanier gives us another reason to celebrate
Glorious Day - Up with the Gummint
Mo' better Government - the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, 2007
Mr. Haney Goes to the Beach - Page Two
Old Pictures - us before we lived here, and our families before we lived
VIII. Projects - Some of the things we've done around the place
The Yard Barn - a place for everything and everything all over the place
The Swamp Bridge - it's all about access
The Deck - our first adventure in recreational carpentry
The Great Wall - "Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair."
The High Wall - part one, a retaining wall for the company driveway
The Tractor Barn - sometimes we amaze ourselves
The Swift House - and sometimes we amaze our feathered friends
The Owl Houses - wise birds to like such secure homes
Upkeep - not always in the project class, sometimes just chores
Beaver Busting - helping out the neighbors
Rodent Patrol - wading in after them
Culvert Problems - the little scoundrels just won't give up
Food Plot - not a conspiracy, exactly; more like Hansel's stalling tactics
Unsticking a Backhoe - not Old Stoney, one of his Hunt Club buddies
Culvert Maintenance - "There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over."
Culvert Supply - or "Covert," as the case may be
Springs - hope springs eternal, and water when the drought lets up
Bonnet Lake Boat Landing - because sometimes you can take a boat to water but you can't back it in
Mr. Haney, the Farmall H - sometimes a piece of gardening equipment becomes a project
Catalogue - ever the helpful dog
The Road Grader - A necessary ugly
Mechanical Samples - William believes himself to be mechanically inclined
Hip Replacement - when greasing doesn't satisfy the squeaky wheel
Squeaky Wheel Redux - the jacklegs rise again
Butt Lift - for when it just sags too much
Liftall Replacement - lifting a lift
Liftall Operation - how the early hydraulic system works
Sector Popper - two shots of how to
With This Ring - a differential kind of medical drama
Tractor Photos - an assortment of odds and ends, mostly maintenance related
The Brush Guard - one more step toward operator comfort