I haven’t taken you to the  Barnrock Road project for a while.   It’s raining outside, and it’s a mess up there.    There is muddy water everywhere. I can’t leave the house and turn right in my new car because Snowball the Dog might bite my car again, and I don’t want to go on Barnrock because it is just a mess.  I’m going to park the car and start swimming the North Fork of the Holston River to go anywhere. If you see me floating by, I’m headed to the Rally Mart in Hiltons for a BLT.

By the way,  if you don’t believe me when I tell you my new car suffered a dog bite that pulled a piece of it loose, read about it here.

Here’s some progress on the road….Granny Bott’s house earlier this year.

The site today for the new road taken a few days ago when I was up that way. Hard to believe it’s the same place, isn’t it?

Let’s look at something infinitely better! It quit raining for a few minutes and I went out and took some pictures! What is the name of this flower? Is it mandevilla?

Here’s the border with the mandevilla or whatever it is called in it.   Where the topiary thing stands is a “crossing” point for the cats, and every plant I put there is trampled and dies.  I’m hoping that this will not be the case this time. I was weeding while the ground was damp so if you look closely, you’ll see weeds thrown in the grass. 

I’ve never had luck with clematis, but I’m trying again in a new place.   I’m hoping that this one doesn’t “wilt”.    I put this in just before it rained today.  Those are green pepper plants and flowers from plant class that I stuck in around the clematis.   Hope they all do okay.     I was hurrying because it was starting to sprinkle and I didn’t even bother to brush the dirt off the rock.

Oh yeah…how about those taters? A picture is worth a thousand words. Besides bragging isn’t polite.

And 20+ rows of green beans that are in the garden are gettng extremely weedy. We’ll rototill them when it dries.

Ahh…writing about the garden made me feel better.