Chris Fields and Baylee Almon

Please rememeber them, and all of the 168 and 800.

Ok, so I haven't really had a lot of positive things to say here in the longest while. April is a tough month. Still, it's also a month when things are starting to grow again. I wanted to capture that in pictures of my back yard. Unfortunately, all I had was this crap 2.2 megapixel camera, so... bear with me.



Ok, so those pine trees in the background, that is where my back yard ends.



Nice bridge, right? Guess what's under the rocks? WOW! How'd you figure out that the rocks, bridge, and thin layer of dirt on the other side cover a mound of old roofing shingles in one guess?

Please, don't call the MDEQ on me...



All right, those are solar panels. We have a bank of four lead acid wheel chair batteries in the basement that we store THE POWER OF THE SUN in. Yeah... we light LEDs and run the blower fans for the wood stove off of the batteries. We've had the rig for almost eight months now. It's cut out a substantial amount from our electricity bill. Please don't call DTE on me.



Ah, the shrine to my pyromania. Yeah, I'm eventually going to mortar it. Hopefully before all of the bricks crumble from the intense heat...

I've got like, twenty more pictures, of the main garden, the orchard, the far garden, the righthand garden, the lefthand garden, the wading pool...

But I'd rather float this post, and see what the response is, before I go all photo-happy on you guys...