Rain chain complete, Birthday Amp and other new stuff

Finished view of the Rain Chain Pondlette.

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 Only missing something to mulch the path between the pondlette and the Heather garden.

This new heath is Erica x darleyensis "Furzey", should have pink flowers in the fall.

Here is my version of an Easter Island statute, leftover from the trough I carved the beginning of August 2013, here. It is nowhere near the size of the Easter Island statues.

I lost the tag, but I think that this heath should have white flowers. The plan is to order some dwarf heaths and heathers to fill in the new garden area to the left of the maintenance path.

My Birthday Amp. It is small and light and sounds great. I painted the grill red so when I jam with people there will be no confusion as to whose amp is whose. I looked at a Fender practice amp, but it had too many different amp models to choose from. Some of the other amps I was looking at I didn't like for purely aesthetic reasons(shiny knobs or cheap looking push buttons). If I hadn't purchased the Roland, I may have gone with the Orange Amp, just because it looked cool.

The Roland MicroCube has 6 amp models and effects; chorus, phase, flange, tremolo(so I can play "How soon is now" by The Smiths), delay and reverb.

Newcastle branched out a few years ago with seasonal ales, but only just noticed this while shopping at Holiday Beverage this week. It is just OK, I prefer the Newcastle Brown. I'm not a great fan of pale ales, though I did like the Winter Ale they brewed.

 This is just filler, it is just an OK Belgian style wheat beer.

Tried a bunch of other beers over the summer, but neither kept the labels nor took a photo, was just lazy I suppose.

Misc.

Moved the small wire fence behind the car hole to the edge of the structure. Some lazy sod had been putting their leaves in that space after I have cleaned up the leaves from my property.

Rain Chain attachment. Above: Copper wire wrapped around 2 bolts through the fascia. Below: Copper wire through the grate below the yin/yang rocks. The yin/yang thing didn't look as good as I had hoped.

Yet another trough. Drilled a series of perimeter holes. Worked the drill forth and back to connect the dots. Did the same vertically and horizontally in the center section and chiseled out the middle bits. Easy peasy. Though the dog was not impressed. Washed the fine bits out with water and filled it to see how quick it drains. Will probably have to drill some drainage holes. Or it could be a bird bath or dog water bowl.