WS22 Oko 14
Oko Ake Topa
This boring-looking photo from late Saturday afternoon actually represents a lot of work that was accomplished this week. Tuesday afternoon i was taking pictures of flowers in the hochoka, such as the purple one in the lower right of the picture, which by the way is purple locoweed or Lambert’s locoweed. After photographing the obvious flowering plants, for some reason i decided it was time to dig out the soapweed that was near the end of the papered wall on the left side of the picture. That yucca had been here from when we first started working here. It always reminded Mom, and still reminds me, of Grandma Smith. Have been wanting to transplant for at least a year because it is in the way of that wall and the “warming room” that is planned to be built in that bay. The soapweed’s taproot was so deep that i had to cut it off and also the plant was so big that i split it into two bundles of soapweeds. The largest bundle is in the photo. The second one is planted on the other side of the hochoka. Rocks from along the bank west of the house were used to stablize the dirt around both plants. I sure hope they survive the transplanting. Then for some unexplained reason, i decided to dig a trench from around the end of the concreted stub wall to the bottom of the concrete wall beside the yellow-handled tomper in the upper-right of the photo. Dug completed the job in less than three hours. Had to rig up a way to connect the new round pvc drain pipe to the rectangular opening into the gallery’s sunken patio. Backfilled and tomped the dirt to the point when the photo was taken. But then i continued digging with the bobcat’s bucket so the white drain pipe (which is barely visible in center of the photo) could “daylight” and the runoff water flow to the south drain in the hochoka.