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To: Gauguin who wrote (39414)	10/11/1999 7:45:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I woke up around 4:30 a.m., and couldn't get back to sleep, I was really hot. It could be hot flashes, but I only get that hot feeling in the wee hours. So I got up and posted on Feelies for while, and then logged off and read about landscaping for a while, and then decided I wasn't going back to sleep, and went downstairs and made coffee, because it was 6:30 a.m., and went out for the paper, and it was still dark. Rats. I hate it that the days get shorter. So I drank coffee and read enough of the paper, and came back and logged on again. Now I am looking out my bedroom window, looking due east, looking for signs of sunrise. It's light enough to call day, the sky is very cloudy, but I can see brighter patches between the clouds, and I can just barely see a little pink through the trees across the street. The trees have been becoming tinged with color, I'd say it started maybe two weeks ago, maybe less. The maples in the back yard are lightly tinged with red. Some tree in the backyard of the house across the street is now mostly dark purple-red, and there's one down the block that is brown, but most of the rest are still green, with just little bits of yellow here and there. Hechinger's, the local hardware chain, is going out of business, which really bothers me. They've been put out of business by Home Depot and Lowes, which really are cheaper, but it still bothers me. They won't close their doors until December, and they keep reducing prices, and now they are finally cheaper than Lowes. So yesterday I bought two loads of Windsor Castle Rock, for a retaining wall in the back yard, it's concrete blocks that look like rock on the outside face, and can be used without mortar, and they are cut in such a way that you can make curved walls or straight walls. Not truck loads, just enough to fit in the back of Rover, 3 wide, 3 deep, and 4 high. Mostly gray, with some sandstone, thinking it might look cool mixed. I was thinking of using flat rocks and piling them without mortar, that's awfully pretty, but a pallet at Merrifield Nursery was $300, and a pallet of Castle Rocks was around $100, and I think you'd actually use a smaller volume of Castle Rocks, the books I was reading recommended making a mortarless flat rock wall at least a foot wide, preferably eighteen inches. I really didn't want to spend thousands on a garden wall. Maybe they'd be cheaper ordering directly from a quarry, I don't know. If anyone knows where to get large quantities of flat rocks relatively inexpensively, let me know, as we would like to use real rocks around the pond.