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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jan 12, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> The world is a very different place with water!

Yes, different and usually much better world.
> www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/bigjacob.jpg

The terrain, the rocks, the atmosphere is very much like Hurricane  
Creek when it is up a bit.
> The view is downstream.  To the right is a 15' bluff and at the top  
> of that
> is back pasture.  To the left is the Cherokee National Forest.

"You call that a bluff? That's not a bluff. This 'ere's a bluff."  
Alas, I don't have a photo to make the vertical point.

> www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/pump.jpg

In which compass direction is the down tilt of that strata?
> And here is a where a small basin is empounded on Bee Suck Creek to  
> provide water for the garden.  The pipe goes up hte 20' bluff to the  
> shoulder where the main vegetable garden is located.  In the center  
> of the garden is a pitcher pump.  You can't see it from this angle  
> but the pipe under water is held verticle by large stones and has a  
> foot valve.

Far more valuable than any gold.


Gene GeRue
www.RURALIZE.com