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The pictures are great. Keep up the great work and before you know it you'll be relaxing in front of a beautiful pond for sure.
our family pond
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Mr T and Papa Bear spent the morning pouring the footer. Thankfully it was overcast and the work progressed quickly.
Wow. Looks like hard, but fun work. Gonna love what the family workedto achieve.
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Nice job!
We dug a trench in the middle and put in a sump pump to keep it all dry!
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Great work, and it's a wonderful experience working with children. I have very fond memories of digging my first pond with my sons.
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Wow, this looks awsome. This is a project that the kids will take great pride in for years to come.
I'm impressed , may I ask if your going to indstall a 4" bottom drain , it would save you lots of hassle later on and basically become a self cleaning pond .
However is that a boulder sticking out of your side wall , if it is will you be removing it ?
Dave
However is that a boulder sticking out of your side wall , if it is will you be removing it ?
Dave
Dave, yes, we'll have two bottom drains - gravity fed.
the 'boulder' was a surprise - turns out it's a lump of concrete - the kids carefully dug around it - but when I saw it we had to 'shorten' the pond on that side - cannot have a lump of concrete sticking out in the wall
the 'boulder' was a surprise - turns out it's a lump of concrete - the kids carefully dug around it - but when I saw it we had to 'shorten' the pond on that side - cannot have a lump of concrete sticking out in the wall
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Smash IT!
Mr T is trying to grow some lotus seeds - they have started germinating and we have the first leaf!
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Get them in water, the first leafs float, can't tell if they are dry or in water