#sloping yard design

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Landscape in Charlotte Design ideas for a small backyard concrete paver landscaping with a fire pit.

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Great Room Dining Room San Diego Inspiration for a large coastal medium tone wood floor and vaulted ceiling great room remodel with white walls, a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace

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Mulch - Front Yard

Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary drought-tolerant and full sun front yard mulch landscaping.

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San Diego Beach Style Dining Room Inspiration for a large coastal great room remodel with a medium tone wood floor and vaulted ceiling, white walls, a traditional fireplace, and a stone fireplace.

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Modern Landscape - Front Yard

Inspiration for a large modern drought-tolerant and full sun front yard gravel walkway in summer.

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Beach Style Deck - Pergolas Large beach style backyard picture of a deck with wood railings on the second floor and a pergola

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Modern Landscape

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Austin Modern Landscape

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Front Yard - Craftsman Landscape

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Cat/Mouse/Den EXTRA! Getaway Fever

AN: This is the quick story a personal friend wrote based on Cat/Mouse/Den! I actually vastly prefer his writing to my own because I feel like it fits König's POV much better. Everyone tell him how good it is in the comments to fluster him <3

He walks along the base of a gradually sloping desert-esque hill, with trees and high rising scrub against the base of the hill, up it, and maybe even over it. The occasional tree, large stone, or elsewise normal scenery slowly passes him as he patrols. Then the wind catches him. 

 He sucks in a breath, and takes in the scene in, in a different way. The smell of acacia, a light rain from this morning, and something else. It's different, not new. Out of place. The smell lingers in the back of his throat. Makes his arm hair stand. ‘Ich geisteskrank’  he thinks, (I’m insane)

 He closes his eyes, for a few seconds, as another whipping wind rolls down the hills, breaks around his form. 

 And this time he closes his eyes, and breathes in deeper. And he catches it again. 

 “No closer.” A cool, flat tone, from the radio at his hip. There's almost an edge of excitement or thrill on the end of the words that come over the radio. It's her. Of course

 So all he does is lean back on a small boulder, just less than a yard behind him. It's funny how no matter where the line is drawn, it seems to always be in a comfortable place. Maybe it’s that he could make himself comfortable in her presence, anywhere. Maybe that she makes sure he’s comfortable wherever he may be. But he does stop, and he takes up post. And she watches closely as the tension seems to leave him. 

 His shoulders drop, half a foot, from where he holds them. He slouches a little. He even rolls his neck, to stretch. And as he does, he stops, about halfway up his right shoulder. 

 She can't see it perfectly from over 70 yards. But he's making eyes at her. The crisp desert air, or maybe a lucky delusion, brought her right to him. 

 “Hallo, Maus.” His voice is high. It means “I missed you so”

 “König.” Her voice hides her eagerness. It means “You made me wait.” But she continues “Don’t move a muscle.” It means 

 “I missed what you look like.”

  He draws his favorite knife, and rolls it around in his hand, idly. He cant think of what to say, but and it's eating at him instantly. Like hes running out of time. Like she’ll shoot him for his lack of etiquette, or for worse- boring her. In an antsy fervor, he wracks his brain for something clever. Impressive? Entertaining? His hands move on their own accord, and start passing the blade back and forth. It snaps from hand to hand, almost moving so fast it can only be seen on departure and reentry from one palm to another. 

“Das es not my first place to pick on vacation. Yet we’re both here?”

Her eyes roll back into her skull, and after a second of him wanting to cut out his own tongue, she throws him a rope. “Just enjoying the pool, maybe the view too. It's not half bad.”

Her smirk is audible. ‘I am going to explode’  He thinks. But it comes out as “Have you tried the uhh… mini bar? Or the breakfast?”

“No, I haven't, I've been sleeping in.”

 She’s maybe slept half an hour in the past 24, not wanting to chance missing him. “Is it any good..?” She entertains the idea. In her mind, she doesn't imagine it being a bad place for such amenities, or at least how much better it would make things.

It goes on, and they play pretend for a little.

 It's hushed, and quiet, and statements usually finish with “It would be nice.” But it makes a good pass time, as they draw up and design the perfect little vacation together. And, eventually the sun sets, and two shadows head to camp, and report nothing. No imaginary hotel, or imaginary margaritas, or even imaginary golden orange sunlight that creeps through imaginary curtains as the twilight spreads across the arid landscape. 

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had a weird dizzy spell today at a weird time

i was out in the yard taking a break between work and video therapy, and decided to cut some of the invasive vines growing all around a big maple tree that I particularly like

clipping them was a fine start but then I decided to pull them up as much as I could, to get some of the huge root network up, and I was following these long ass roots all over the slope, pulling them for like half an hour

as I was pulling I was thinking of the name of this vine, oriental bittersweet, and how it's a creeping vine like ivy, designated a ~foreign invader~ that must be driven out, a tenacious grower that puts out tendrils undauntedly... I don't know, considering Bacchae parallels, pondering oriental bittersweet as a Dionysian analog

anyway some combination of squinting in the low light and going from low crouch to high standing while pulling the roots, maybe dehydration or blood sugar idk, gave me a terrible headachey dizziness - hard to focus my eyes, a little unsteady on my feet

weirdly like intoxication

so anyway that was weird and sucked and I think was just an unimportant woozy spell (maybe I need new glasses??) but how fucking unsettling that it should coincide with my meditation on the Dionysian implications of the impossible struggle against the invasive plants colonizing my woodlot

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I am guessing Harry is staying around the private golf course Irving opened last week. Only rich people are allowed in and I doubt he would get recognized that much in Oasis or Thermal, CA.

You're probably right. The course looks amazing.

From Hits Daily Double:

A couple of names familiar to readers of this site popped up in si.com’s roundup “Dishing Out Awards for Incredible Renovations, Restorations and New Golf Courses for 2022.” The entry for “Best New Private Course” reveals that industry titans Irving Azoff and Eddy Cue, accurately described as “passionate golfers,” have collaborated on the creation of “something different and unique, a very special, private, traditional golf club in the Coachella Valley.” That would be Ladera Golf Club, designed by architect Gil Hanse and partner Jim Wagner and located in Thermal, 40 minutes southeast of Palm Springs.

From Golf Digest: Ladera breaks the mold of desert golf in Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley. The design does not incorporate unnatural water features, it’s not lined by palm trees, and it’s not constrained by housing considerations. Instead, it is a beautiful and varied expression of what desert golf can be in its most natural form, though nothing about it is natural. The 300-acre site slopes 140 feet from the high point near the Santa Rosa Mountains across once-level land that was formerly lemon groves and mango farms. Hanse and Wagner propped up the low side of the property to reorient sightlines over the valley floor toward the eastern Mecca Hills and moved millions of cubic yards of earth to create each particle of golf.Ladera’s fairways are generous, 60 to 100 yards with no formal rough, but strategy abounds with options to play to wide parts of the fairway though the best approach angles and lines-of-sight are reserved for those who skirt the boundaries of the hazards. Even completely straight holes, such as the par-5 seventh, are full of options with staggered bunkers and a treacherous side slope short of the green. The greens reveal a tremendous variety of sizes and forms, some modestly contoured like the enormous saucer third and others a pattern of ridges and falling tiers (the 14th). But the most distinctive features at Ladera are the attractive dry gullies and arroyos that Hanse, Wagner and their team cut through the site emulating sandy, eroded vegetative lows that water would rush through during rare periods of heavy rain. The excavated sand was used to create sweeping elevation changes and to prop up greens like the par-3 fourth, the altar-like 15th, the par-3 16th and the par-5 17th that hangs over the edge of a deep arroyo.

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What is considered the most powerful battleship in history in terms of firepower, size, and protection?

That would be the famous Japanese battleship Yamato. She was the largest battleship ever built at 863 feet (263 meters) long, 128 feet (39 meters) wide, and displacing 72,808 tons. This massive size was done to support her capabilities, as Yamato was also the most powerfully armed and armored battleship ever built, nicknamed a super battleship for a reason.

Nine 18.1-inch (46 cm) guns served as Yamato’s main battery, housed in three 3-gun turrets, two forward and one aft. These were the largest and most powerful guns ever built in history, each capable of firing a 3,220 pound shell up to 26.1 miles to penetrate up to 20-inches (51 cm) of reinforced armor. Accuracy was very good, Yamato’s weight and beam were an amazing gun platform, she used ripple firing, and combined with the innate accuracy of a larger weapon gave Yamato a shell dispersion of just 440–550 yards at max range. These main guns were supported by six 6.1-inch (155 mm) guns in two 3-gun turrets, one forward and aft, twenty four 5-inch (127 mm) dual guns in twelve twin turrets, six on each side, and up to 162 1-inch (25 mm) automatic cannons (which were called moral boosters for a reason).

Armor was equally good, a 16.1-inch (41 cm) main belt sloped at a 19 degree angle and a 7.9–9.1–13.4-inch (20–23–34 cm) deck protected their citadel, which was the thickest armor ever produced for such armor. Yamato’s 25.6-inch (65 cm) turret armor was proven to be immune to all naval guns at all realistic battle ranges, and it’s safe to assume to 22-inch (56 cm) barbette armor carried a similar effect. This undoubtedly gave Yamato the best armor of any battleship ever built. Even the most powerful 1,000 pound AP bombs deflected off their deck, while Yamato was capable of just eating up torpedoes. During her final battle, even by at least 7, but probably 9 torpedoes, she was still making 18 knots, and only listing at 10 degrees (albeit all void spaces had been flooded, making further counter flooding impossible without drastic measures).

Yamato was designed to make 27 knots, but proved capable of 28.2 knots on sea trials, and fire control was pretty good. Four sets of massive 49 foot (15 meter) optical systems decked the ship, three in each main battery gun turret and one on top the pagoda mast. Advanced electromagnetic calculators served as the main fire control system, and this was supported by a basic set of fire control radar.

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MidCentury Design V34327 Split-Level with 2-Step Foundation SLOPED Lot 6 bedrooms - 3 bathrooms - attached garage - patio - porch - huge yard - pet friendly -

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Viking Sword from Warrior's Grave Unearthed in Norway

The Viking Age weapon was discovered by a homeowner clearing land for an extension.

A man digging in his yard to build an extension of his house in southern Norway has unearthed the 1,100-year-old grave of a Viking warrior who was buried with weapons.

The finds include a rusty iron sword in two pieces; its hilt style enabled archaeologists to date the burial to the late 800s or early 900s, during the Viking Age, Joakim Wintervoll — an archaeologist who works for the local government of Agder County, where the relics were found — told Live Science.

"We have a good record of how the 'fashion' in the shapes of sword handles developed in Norway, from early ages up to more modern eras," he said. "Comparing it to other known sword handles, we believe this sword is from the late ninth century to the 10th century."

Other artifacts found in the grave included a long spear designed to be used on horseback, called a lance; glass beads and a belt buckle gilded with gold; and a bronze brooch. Neither human nor animal remains have yet been discovered there.

The artifacts seem to have belonged to a Viking warrior. "The lance suggests that this was someone that was proficient in combat from horseback," Wintervoll said. And the warrior was "definitely someone of means, based on the gold-gilded jewelry."

Viking burial

The grave and its artifacts were discovered in late June in the yard of a house in the mainly rural district of Setesdal, beside a lake about 125 miles (200 kilometers) southwest of Oslo. Homeowner Oddbjørn Holum Heiland had started using a mechanical digger to clear the spot in his yard where he and his wife Anne planned to extend their house, according to Science Norway.

"I wasn't going to dig a lot, just a little bit in the slope behind the house, to get some more space between the house and the land," he told the news outlet.

He first found an oblong slab just below the surface; it's now been recognized as a gravestone. Further digging revealed the hilt of the sword; Holum Heiland then realized his yard must hold other Viking artifacts, so he stopped digging and called the county archaeologists.

Wintervoll and Jo-Simon Frøshaug Stokke, an archaeologist from Oslo's Museum of Cultural History, visited the site a few days later. No Viking artifacts had been found before at the property, Wintervoll said, but a Viking grave containing a sword, spear, glass beads and a horse bridle were discovered on a nearby farm in the 1930s.

Although it's "a bit too early to say" whether these two graves have a connection, "it is interesting that they are relatively close and have almost identical finds in them," he said.

Ancient claim

It is possible that a Viking warrior was buried at the site as a way for their descendants to claim ownership of the land around it, Wintervoll said. Or, perhaps it had only family significance.

"No grave mound was known to have been on this homestead," Wintervoll said. In Norway, this type of grave is known as a "flatmarksgrav," which translates to "flat field grave," he added.

The person interred there might have been buried whole, or cremated ashes may have been laid down in the grave. "At this point in time, the practice varied a bit from place to place, but we have yet to find any burnt bones," he said.

The grave seems to have been dug on an almost east-west axis, which would align with sunrise and sunset, and the only grave marker seems to have been the oblong stone above it.

"Right now, we don't think this is a grave that was meant to be visible at a great distance," Wintervoll said. "These types of graves might have a more family or private function."

By Tom Metcalfe.

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my sweater!!!!!! is done!!!!!!! look!!!!!!! look at it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

changed the colors a little so it fit my style more but!!!!! it's done!!!!!!! my gorgeous mabel sweater!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

some pattern notes --

-high key recommend the pattern, it worked up very quickly and was very easy to follow!! I've never gotten gauge to work out in a sweater and I've never done colorwork before but it worked out perfectly here and doing the trees was a lot easier than I thought it would be. like, it will look complicated. but it really, really is not. and you get 20 colorwork patterns with this pattern!!!!!!!!!! and access to videos about how to do them, too!! personally I didn't watch them but if you are someone who likes visual instruction, that is available!!!

-it took me almost a month to make? I didn't work on it every day, and some days I did lots of rows all day long and other times just a little section, depending on what else I was doing and also. giving my eyes. a break. bc I love crocheting and am very prone to. accidentally overworking my eyes. please crochet with lots of light and take breaks.

-the sweater is designed to be oversized, and if you have a sweater in this kind of style (where the shoulder line drops to form part of the sleeve), I definitely recommend measuring that sweater and comparing it to the finished measurements provided by the pattern so you know what size to make, because I usually buy sweaters between medium and extra large, and for this sweater, based on a sloped oversize sweater I already have, I made the EXTRA SMALL. and the sleeves can in fact pull over my hands.

-the total yarn needed for each size is listed in grams and yards, but the breakdown for how much of each color is needed for the different colorworks is only in grams. which can take some Math to work out. anyway, always buy a little more yarn than you need!

-I bought two skeins of each color in caron simply soft and used the most of the light purple, and didn't even use one whole skein of the dark purple, bc like autumn olive, who made the pattern, I cropped the sweater by ten rows and removed them from the dark purple section.