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Message: [QUOTE="hamstermann, post: 518915, member: 20256"] I'll see what I can do. I have no knowledge of video editing software and it would have to be free, so maybe that's something else to research. Do any of you have recommendations? I don't want to just record on my phone and ramble. It'd be fun to put in cool music and funny clips from movies and stuff so I make it more edutainment than lecture. I compare justpondliners.com and halfoffponds.com fairly regularly. It's interesting - one will be cheaper for a certain size and the other will be cheaper for another size. I'm giving myself such anxiety about pond liner size that I'm tempted to just start digging and see what I end up with. Maybe I'll get so sick of digging that I'll end up being okay with a smaller sized pond. :D That's good to know about no sales in the spring though - I've been assuming that there's always a sale somewhere so I've been putting off buying the liner until tax return time. Maybe less of a swim pond and more of a "Sit in the cool water and watch the fish" pond. I'm planning an intake bay with maybe a plastic garbage can with lid or something similar for the pump vault. I'd drill holes in the garbage can to let the water in and see if I could carefully stack the rocks so that there was enough water flow into the can without the rocks crushing it. Maybe foam the rocks together to help with that too. That's a good thought. I definitely want to load it up with plants. I love gardening and I've learned from the PVC bog that the more plants, the better. And that suits me just fine. :D I'm less afraid of muscle stiffness and hard work than I am of going out of budget. Someone I was picking up rocks from told me that he spent $400 for a skid bucket and $200 (or maybe it was $250?) per day for an excavator. That's SO much money and I'm hoping it will be far less than 65 trips to the dump to haul away the dirt in my pickup. The concern for me is having the straight walls erode away before I'm done digging and then having to dig more than intended to clean things up and end up needing a bigger liner. Maybe I can deal with that by not digging clear to my full width and then squaring things up and finishing them off when I get the liner and rock cloth. Kind of like just get the depth now and 90% of the width or length, then do the final 10% at liner time. [/QUOTE]

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