Yay, I Finally Bought a Wind Chime!
“Chimes of the Appalachians” - Aluminum tubes anodized with Copper, with black walnut wood, hand tuned and all that jazz, made by Weatherland, oh it’s 42″ long!
I’ve been wanting a wind chime for at least a year now, but never could find one that I felt like actually paying for, and I refused to buy some cheap piece of crap. I was up at the greenhouse today, they were rather wiped out of everything… and inconveniently they’d potted up pretty much everything, making it less than desirable cost-wise. They did have an entire building still full of freakin’ Petunias though, hah. We did buy some more, but they were huge and it cost $2.20 for four of them… they do work well in various spots, but anyway.
I like the way the petunias and pineapple mint work together in my barrel… I need several more of them for my mints, the tiny pots from last year just aren’t cutting it. I don’t give the petunias long though, the mint will quickly take over, as usual. You can also see the little silver torch ‘things’ I picked up the other day, they’re a lifesaver when it comes to warding off the bugs, they’re also such a perfect height as to not be annoying during the day.
So, I had a sage plant and some feverfew, a whopping total of about three dollars… kind of defeats the driving up there. I definitely needed to make the trip more worthwhile.
They have this spectacular wind chime outside made of black pipes something on the order of 6″ in diameter. It rarely makes noise, but when it does… wow. I finally got around to looking for chimes in there, and found a couple that I really liked. Firstly, they had a smaller version of that gigantic one outside, but… it was still nearly $300, ouch. Smaller versions of that were available, but still ghastly expensive, but finally I was stuck deciding between this one “Chimes of the Appalachians” or “Chapel Bells” …and it was a tough choice. I really liked the chapel bells one, but I wasn’t sure I’d want to hear something like that on a regular basis. That one was 71″ long, with very small diameter tubes, rather spectacular in its own right, but I went with the ‘mountain chimes’ obviously.
Fortunately and also unfortunately these large chimes require quite a bit of wind to do anything. The plus is that I won’t be hearing the chime so often as to become annoying, but of course I really want to hear it now because I’m obsessive about just having bought this thing.
Finally, my mother bought me that cute little lady bug ‘thing’ made of blackened metal. I’m just giddy over it, so very cute, hah. I’ve been working on the pathway, thus it has ‘fresh’ cocoa hulls, which are a lighter brown than the ‘weathered’ ones in the ‘patio’ area of the rose garden.