May Day!

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I don’t normally celebrate the first day of May, but I opened the waterfall this morning. As I write this, I’m sitting on the back porch where I can see AND hear it. John built it for me a year after we moved here, helped by grandsons David and Nathaniel. Two years ago brother Bob and wife Beth helped me clean the pools, as well as choose and install a new pump and new hoses. Last year Chris Pollock connected the new hose to the splitter. As you can tell, this has always been a family project. This year I spent a part of a morning raking the leaves out of the water, and another morning bailing out the pools. Today I checked the pump, filled the lowest pool, and let the pump fill the rest. Soon I will see if neighbor D.’s offer still stands of putting the decorative slates back where they belong. She is an enthusiastic volunteer landscaper and says she enjoys working with stones. I would never be able to do what she does.

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Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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37 thoughts on “May Day!”

  1. How lovely to hear and see the waterfall. Yesterday I posted on Facebook that it was the first day I thought was good enough to sit on the front porch. A bird, sparrow or wren showed up on the ledge and I sang it the first verse of a hymn, surprisingly it stayed for the whole thing. Glad you got to enjoy the waterfall, the community and the memories! Blessings, Michele

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  3. How wonderful to have the waterfall working! I love being able to position the metal lawn furniture where it catches the rain coming off the roof–almost as good as a waterfall! We are still up and down with cool, warm, and hot days, but it will level out to hot soon enough!

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    1. The temps here are not steady. Frost date for this region is May 8. It was the same on Long Island! I could remember the date because it was also my father-in-law’s birthday.

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  4. What a beautiful to have the waterfall working. Iam glad to Frist day was good for you.Glad you got to enjoy the waterfall, and the memories! Blessings, Raj!

    Tack care, Anne!

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      1. I would imagine that would be soothing. A friend of mine had rain chimes and she made a video with her phone to send to me how peaceful it sounds with the water falling between the chimes. Have you ever heard rain chimes Anne? I’ll send you a separate comment of a YouTube video in it and you can just delete it after you listen. I imagine it sounds similar to your waterfall.

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          1. How peaceful they sound … I like the sound for ambient noise. I tried the birds, but after a while you can have too much of a good “sing”. 🙂

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                2. I asked for rain chimes, but I got steady rain sounds instead. I had that already today, sitting on the porch. Alexa talked to me, but I’m in bed without hearing aids and couldn’t understand her.

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                    1. Sunday is a mad dash. I exercise, shower, wind two clocks, and skid into church online. After that, I have a leisurely breakfast. Do you walk on Sundays?

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                    2. I like you saying “you skid into church online” … I seem to have lost my penchant for punctuality that I had when I took the bus. I always feel like I’m running to something at the last minute. Yes, I do walk on Sundays.

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                    3. I start going to church on time, but I often have trouble greeting people in the chat area. This morning, in my haste, I misspelled morning. Felt like a dunce!

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                    6. OK, see I thought it was Zoom. I stream PBS shows like that, so maybe I am cooler than I originally thought. 🙂 But you have a frame with rotating photos in it, so two steps forward for you, one step back for me.

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                    10. I’m better with computers than other gadgets, but that said, I am still using the Windows 7 laptop even though I have the now five-year-old Windows laptop sitting on my glass stovetop with nothing on it.

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      2. Anne – here are the rain chimes. I forgot how nice they sounded. I have it on now to block out the whining dog next door … it whines because it is alone which is 3/4s of the time. I have it turned up loud now and can still hear it).

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          1. OK, see how you like it until you find someone who might be able to install one for you. My blinds are sealed shut so I can’t open my windows, so I wouldn’t be able to hear it as clearly as this video.

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