Change of plans...

Had a brainstorm, not using cement blocks and then have to cover them. Now I'm using retaining wall bricks and multi colors which will finish the area.

A wet Friday.

Wanted to do a lot of work today, but the ground is so muddy it's hard just to walk out there. :( Might work on it later.

June 17, 2011 Pics

Yesterday, I decided to start from scratch with "Mount Rushmore", so I dug it out and now the waterfall mountain is a large upper pond which is the same width of the orginal pond, but half the length, it also be the same depth as the orginal. As seen in the picture it still needs 1 more row of block and the front of the upper pond still needs constructed.  There will be some small fish in the upper pond, however if they seem to flow to the lower pond they will be removed. The inside will be lined with the old pond liner, and the outside of the upper pond will be covered with rocks and plants.



Deck (dock) design

Well... because of the piles of dirt had to come up with something to do with it, so I'll take most of the dirt and create a 1 step simple deck (boat dock). This also solves the webcam problem, because of the new large pond the webcam is too close and doesn't fill the entire picture so it will be moved to the corner of the deck 10 ft away from the pond.

Pond Pics 6-12-11

Old pond pic

Pond Expansion Plans

Here is the current plans for the pond. This is version 8... (note the measurements are wrong as this was done before I got shovel happy)