[Raised On Rock
Kody Coste
"Raised on Rock" is the second single from the seventeenth studio album "Sting in the Tail" of the German rock band Scorpions.The song achieved a great placement on the charts worldwide and became known as one of the greatest hits in the 2010s which is #2 on the Classic Rock Mediabase chart.[1]
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Kelly had four older siblings. Robin, Curt, Candy and Cary. Their names rattle off as easily as John, Paul, George and Ringo. Robin set the stage. He was a brilliant musician who played everything by ear. He had long shaggy hair, soulful eyes and a slow smile. Shy like his mom, he did most of his talking on the piano. One day, riding his brother Cary on the back of his bike, he pointed ahead and said, "There's a mirage. I think." That's typical Eazor humor.
Curt came next. Where Robin had soul, Curt had heart. At any given time, the two would randomly slide onto the piano bench and bang out a song. Chopsticks was my favorite. While Robin was smooth, Curt would rock wildly back and forth, his hair in his eyes, a biting grin. Everything was cool with Curt. Like he had a secret. Curt rocked when he played, he rocked while he watched TV and he rocked through dinner. He also taught me how to quick fake eat a full plate of spaghetti.
Candy was Kelly's only sister. She had a Goldie Hawn smile and an air for adventure. Candy was always taking off to be a part of something extraordinary. There was always a cause, a concert, a crusade. Seconds after the cars would beep to pick her up, Kelly and I would dive into her four poster bed. Together, we would lay back and take it all in. Her clothes, her record collection, Peter Max posters, makeup, turquoise jewelry, leather bags, boots, bandanas, hats, jackets, books. It was a gypsy's room. A museum of cool. Just being in there, you hoped some of it might rub off.
As Kelly blazed through the chaos of her own childhood - I was there. From Kelly, I learned to take a good fall, to laugh it off, to stand up for myself, to jump in first, to finish the fight. Kelly and I were never bored. We built things, we wrecked things. We made our own alphabet, we made the punishment as fun as the crime. We were explorers and inventors. Kelly was tough to most, but I got to see the soft side, too and I consider that a privilege.
With Mrs. Eazor, I witnessed grace, first hand. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in real life and I can say that to this day without slighting my own mom, who says the same thing. June Eazor, with her jet black hair, her olive skin and her green eyes. She walked softly in her Adrienne Vittadini penny loafers. She would curl her legs up on the oversized chair in the family room and read. I always wondered if the words on the page were as pleasant as the look on her face, as she read them. In all the years, through all the band practices right beneath her bedroom, I never heard her yell. She did so much for Mr. Eazor and did so not in obligation, but in partnership.
Seeing the whole family together again, it makes me want to thank them for sharing their home and their lives with me. For letting me in. For treating me like I belonged. For introducing me to the Beatles and the Stones, and most of all, for showing me what c o o l really is.
Oh, Kat, I love your raised rock beds. I used to have a herb spiral(?) made of wood and I so miss it here. We do have raised beds in Germany yet mostly its rather like a hump or little hill. I loved them as I didnt need to bend down. Paula
Great information, Kat! Ashlyn and I planted flowers in our lttle gardent this year, we just couldn't take another year of our veggies being eaten. But we are doing herbs in large pots, for some reason nobody ever bothers those, thankfully. I'll have to take some pictures.
Now came the hard part: we had to move the rocks from the pile to where we wanted to build the beds. I ended up doing that with our son. We loaded the suitable stones into a wheelbarrow and wheeled them over.
Since we were putting the raised beds where there was a lot of oxalis and grass, we put down cardboard inside the stone frames. I know that that will kill those weeds for now. However, I am hoping that it takes care of them for the long term!
We then bought 3 cubic yards of garden soil locally. It is a veggie blend consisting of sandy loam, green waste compost, horse manure, cow manure, grape compost, and fir bark. My husband picked it up with his old pick-up truck. He was able to move the 3 cubic yards in 2 runs.
My estimate is that we used a bit more than 2 cubic yards of garden soil. The rest sits in a pile waiting to be used in other areas of our garden or at a later time. It might just get better over time!
I love working out of doors, and using natural materials available. I too have a raised garden bed of stone, although not a rectangle. I did not use any weed barrier, but I do heavily mulch to keep weeds at bay. I really do enjoy all your posts and thanks for sharing all your wisdom!
I was advised by a good friend that it would be useful to create a concrete base on which to place the pond wall. As the concrete ring is relatively level it should be easy to make sure the pond wall is of a similar depth all around.
To make the ring I simply dug out a small channel in the ground, for the required shape, and placed small pieces of 4mm plywood (I had some scrap from a previous project) to create some shuttering. To get the sides of the pond level I used a long builders level. If a piece of plywood was too high I hit it with a large hammer/mallet until it was in the right place.
Most ponds in the UK need to be at least 3 feet deep to make sure that any wildlife in it can survive the whole year.
As I didn't want to build the pond too high I needed to dig down a bit. Unfortunately due to the nature of the subsoil I couldn't get down too far anyway.
I took out all of the larger or sharper rocks from the bottom of the pond. Even though I was going to put in a protective layer this is necessary to prevent any chance of the actual pond liner getting punctured.
When creating the profile I needed to make sure that there were different levels to accommodate the different sorts of plants that I would eventually plant up.
I bought a pond liner which had a long life, as I didn't want to do this again for a very long time. It was also plenty big enough to cover the entire pond and then some. I didn't want to risk getting one slightly too small, as trying to bond this stuff together in the garden successfully was too risky.
I waited until there was a warm sunny day before trying to put the liner in. This meant that the liner was warmed up and much more supple, thereby reducing the risk of splitting or stretching too far.
I managed to get somebody to help me with this bit as they can be quite heavy, these liners.
Not only did I have to protect the liner from the earth below, but also the rocks I planned to put in the pond itself.
This was the same stuff as I used under the pond liner. I completely covered the pond liner with at least 2 layers of the protection felt, to make sure I didn't puncture it if I needed to get in at any point.
Note : Quite useful to use up any large pieces you have left, in the bottom for extra protection.
Even though the pond is nowhere near complete, I needed to add water at this point. This is so that the liner gets stretched into the very bottom of the pond before too much weight is added to the side pieces.
If you wait until the pond is completely finished to add water, you'll find that the liner will get stretched too much and eventually puncture.
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From Oct. 13 to Nov. 5, the universitywide campaign led by Associated Students collected monetary donations to combat food and nutrition insecurity and support the SDSU Economic Crisis Response Team, A.S. Food Pantry and The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank.
With the continued increase in the cost of living, the need to fight food and nutrition insecurity remains at an all-time high. In the past year, The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank served an average of 400,000 San Diegans every month and distributed 44 million pounds of food.
Of the over $95,000 raised, 20% of the monetary donations will stay on campus to benefit the SDSU Economic Crisis Response Team (ECRT), which helps bridge the gap in resources for students experiencing immediate food, housing or unforeseen financial crises that impact student success. During the 2022-23 academic year, ECRT assisted roughly 2,000 students.
In addition, the money raised will support the A.S. Food Pantry, which provides free, fresh and nutritious food to those in need three times a week. Last academic year, the A.S. Food Pantry distributed over 100,000 pounds of food to students in need.
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