My wife and I have been doing some landscaping as you are all aware
It’s not set up quite the way we want, but we are getting there
Friday we cut the grass in the front and back yards for the second time this June
Then we proceeded to do some more landscaping on Saturday afternoon
The focal point for our garden was a solar light that we bought
We purchased it weeks ago and put it in a special spot
Attached a couple of hanging plants on it and put it on display
It has been sitting in this spot since the middle part of May
We had over forty pounds of rock loaded in its base
Both of us agreed it enhanced our outdoor space
The light shines bright at night and everything looks great
Then one very windy evening it met with a tragic fate
This would go on the record as incident number one
It sustained some damage and we both thought it was done
With all the wind blowing the leaves it made a loud rustling sound
We never heard the crash when the lamp hit the ground
I thought to myself that this is broken and is beyond repair
I walked over to my neighbour who was outside sitting in a chair
“Dave” looked at the damage and came up with a plan
He put it all back together and once again I thank this man
When I put it back in my yard I wanted to keep it out of the breeze
I decided I could reduce the surface area and turned the lamp ninety degrees
This meant the pots were behind and not much surface area to blow
Four days later it crashed again, this proves how much I know!
This was our second incident and once again “Dave” saved the day
This now brings us to this past weekend on a Friday
We were building a raised garden of cedar posts and board
This is when the third and hopefully the final incident occurred
We had to move the lamp to get it into its spot
We removed all the rocks on the base but unfortunately we forgot
We tried so many configurations on how to make this garden bed
We weren’t making any progress and were falling behind instead
We went about our business and decided to take a break
This is when we made yet another mistake
This now brings us to incident number three
We weren’t even thinking as you can plainly see
This lamp crashed for the third time and was the worst of all
“Dave” once again was there to answer the call!
We took it home and placed it in our house to stay in overnight
We weren’t taking any more chances with this solar light
After all the broken pieces of cedar we had to settle on a design
We ended up with three squares and it looks fine
We planted petunias of different colours that match the ones hanging in the pots
With all the trouble we endured, it turned out better than I thought
We dug a deep hole and spiked down the base in the middle square
Filled it with all the rocks and finally this pole isn’t going anywhere!
Now that this was finally secure, we screwed on the solar light
This is now our centerpiece and looks great all day and night!
The Black Sheep Poet 