A dry creek bed is easy to build as long as there is a place for the water to go. We routed the downspouts from our front gutters and the overflow from our water feature to drain here. This also catches all of the run off from our meadow. At the bottom of the slope in my garden above the dry creek, we have a rain garden of plants that like full sun and wet feet in winter, yet won't die in our summer. We already had a ditch, so there was very little digging. We used one pallet of river rock that was around $275 last fall. We used permeable landscape fabric underneath to control the weeds. We don't use fabric in flower beds, BTW! It took 3 of us half a day to do this, but that was with our archaeologist son looking through the stone for arrowheads (which he found). My husband and I didn't mind the slow pace! This was created in September 2006, so the plant material is new. Sidebar: The wire edging is a temporary detterent to deer to keep them from trampling the new plants. It's working so far since everything is deer resistant

I really did not mean to say "not that anyone cares" sarcasticaly,honestly I didn't! LMAO...I know you didn't mean it sarcastically. GF, you are such a sweetie who worries too much. What I should have said was "Please excuse my taking up thread space with my goofy problems!!!" LOL! Hey, I think that is what the conversation side is for...everything that isn't a trade...be a goofy problems, or dumb jokes...everything from soup to nuts...whatever it might be...except of course religion, politics, and a few other things more suited for the Hot Topics Forum. I've heard about that editing at P-bucket, but haven't seen it or played with it yet. Ok...here is from just the HTML tag...17.62 KB...so though it is not a really small pic, it should load fairly quickly due to the size of the file. I see after they are resized down, that they can't be resized back up to full size...right? I'm gonna have to play with this a bit. I just deleted a resized pic, thinking I would still have the full sized one, and it got deleted also. Sheesh...can you tell I'm lost? Sue

Yes, establish a free account with Photobucket. Then copy the HTML number and paste it into your message. You can then push PREVIEW MESSAGE to see if your picture came up ok. Let us know if you are having further trouble.

Hi, I always forget the command for this and google instructions on 'inserting pictures' to find this: Here is a link that might be useful: Inserting a picture code