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Joshua Tree Photo Index 2010 |
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| The Pond: |  The 133 gal pond 74x51x18 fits a Prius |
 Cutting ground rod so can't tear pond |
 Leveling the pond, packing soil beneith |
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 Clothes washer discharges into pond |
 Pond and septic friendly cleaners |
 The pond in a patio of rocks and plants |
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 A Burgundy Red Louisiana Iris |
 Two Anacharis stems |
 Water Poppy - Hydrocleys Nymphoides |
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 Water Sprite, Floating Form |
 Yellow Floating Heart |
 Parrot's Feather. Diamond Milfoil |
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 Planting Water Poppy |
 The pond plants are beginning to grow |
 A simple valve and float shutoff |
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 It works, but it could get stuck open |
 Brass-PVC grates held up under pressure |
 The pond filler is assembled |
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 The frog spitter fills the pond |
 Sump pump on a plate in a pond liner |
 The sump pump wrapped in a wire mesh |
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 Pond liner hung from shower floor |
 A 330 GPH Totalpond pump and filter |
 Replacing a 210 GPH pump with a 560 |
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 Two timers for two pond pumps |
 Pond water recirculates down waterfall |
 Morning's Nursery in 29 Palms, CA |
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| Plants: |  New plants and nutrients |
 Adding lime to caliche soil & mulch mix |
 Planting a Manzanillo Olive Tree |
 Planting a Dwarf Rosemary |
 Hose thru PVC pipe to avoid crimping |
 Two shutoffs in a small irrigation box |
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| Water: |  A shutoff valve for the Olive tree |
 To carry rain and shower water to pond |
 The downspout flows to the pond |
 Rain flows down to a second gutter |
 Three gutters send water to the pond |
 Fitting around the compost toilet vent |
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 Amerimax gutter for a Carolina carport |
 Downspouts & drain pipes deliver water |
 Connecting a corrugated roof to a wall |
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| Toilet: |  Carolina carport with Amerimax gutters |
 All gutters capture rain for the pond |
 A Sun-mar compost toilet with no drain |
 The drain hose through an elbow |
 Overflow hose runs to a drainfield pipe |
 Name brand paper does not compost |
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| Bedroom: |  Compost toilet drawer into a composter |
 A new pillow-top bed |
 Sloping floor; Castors raise the head |
 Inline cord switch with a pull-chain |
 A custom made pull-chain cord switch |
 A Pennzoil siphon pump at Wal-mart |
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 Pull-chain cord switch in a rubber bulb |
 Branstrator trailer window frames |
 New bed, wall, frames, blinds & tracks |
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| Web Cams: |  An imitation SVAT security camera |
 The Logitech Alert network adapter |
 The Logitech Alert 750e power supply |
 Inserting a micro SD chip into the cam |
 Securing the web cam with Loctite |
 A Logitech Alert web cam view |
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 The Logitech Alert 750e and the 700i |
 Finding better outlet for the power box |
 The Logitech Alert 700i web camera |
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| Creatures: |  Faux wood blinds wrap around the 700i |
 Capturing packrat desecration |
 Bird in motion by a Logitech Alert 750e |
 A spider triggers a Logitech Alert 750e |
 A Desert Tortoise |
 A Walking Stick insect |
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 Something is eating my smokes |
 Mice! (Infrared night vision capture) |
 A broken Eucalyptus Tree |
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| Interesting: |  Spectracide Seal & Jobe's Tree Wrap |
 A Seascape by Verne Gillespie |
 Sunrise behind the hill |
 Mount San Jacinto over Route 62 |
 The iron hub of a Branstrator trailer |
 A third wire grounds a two-wire system |
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| Insulation: |  Layered insulating fiberglass bats |
 Crawlspace foam-plywood insulation |
 Bolts pull 6" of solid foam to frame |
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