dear mother nature

please to not be flash-flooding me until AFTER I have completed all perimeter retaining walls, kthxbai.

That would be ‘native’ in a BOTANICAL sense, moron.

Productive over the past week (somewhat). Well, not really, unless you count quantity.
Just today, brought back a quarter-ton of road base, along with a stretch of geotextile fabric and 10′ perforated tube so I can finally do the french drain. Then set up a compost pile — three old fence boards laid over concrete block, [...]

plan evolves…

And though the plan itself hasn’t changed (in general) over the past year or so — excepting tweaks here and there — what’s different now is that the actual plants are identified. All are natives to the blacklands prairie; the white space on the plan will be filled with native grasses (or, in a few [...]