Cattle Egrets in Georgia

Being an immigrant from another continent, it is quite interesting when you start discovering nature in your new surroundings.

Cows in a meadow and hundreds of Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis)! 

Have you ever seen them?

This was near the Campbell Soup mushroom farm on August 12, 1985

We had an 87 m deep well dug for watering our garden

Due to extreme heat in summer, here in the South East of the USA, in Georgia, we decided to have us an 87 m (285 feet) deep well dug. 

Due to city water restrictions, we had no other option or let our veggies, flowers, plants and shrubs go to waste...

On Monday morning around 8:00 AM on July 15, 1985, they arrived for digging our well...

Pieter was at work but he had already laid all the electric wiring, to the spot where the pump had to be placed. 

BUT this man did not listen to me... 

I ran quickly inside the house, and grabbed the wireless phone, while I had rang Pieter.

Now I handed the phone to the stubborn man and I heard him say: Yes Sir, sure Sir! 

He then handed the phone back to me, and grumbled...

They worked for 7 hours...

A lot of action was going on in our yard...

What a muddy job!

By 15:15 they pulled the switch over and it started running!
This proved, that Pieter had correctly connected the electrical wiring!
The first water starts running out...

Still dirty water, for several hours...
Pieter came home from work early, for connecting some pipes.
I'd made the photos, so he too could see what they'd done.

Pieter Made Brick and Wooden Pole Edging

After building the patio and cover Pieter also made a brick edging alongside the driveway and to the front door.

Around the flower beds he used wooden poles that got first impregnated.

Pieter has hand sawn them all on his sawbuck!

Brick edging around front of house and alongside driveway...

All along the driveway is a brick edging as well, and to the left you see the wooden pole edging also.

Here you clearly see the round poles that edge the flower beds.

Showing the impregnated wooden poles from above...

Wooden poles and the brick edging alongside driveway...

All photos are from Sunday, June 23, 1985 and the fan in the veranda got hung the day before.
Our favorite reading place... The British Mushroom Journal is on the table.
Those blue cushions and pillows, I've sewn myself and that Smyrna rug I've also done myself; knotted with a latch hook...
Both of us have always been rather productive.