Will try and take some pictures tomorrow morning before we leave for the wedding we are going to in NJ. Don started working on the waterfall area today.
Thanks, Diane, although this is really not MY design - it is ending up to be Don's! I told him the basic shape I'd like, but he is doing the rest his way. I didn't really think about the waterfall stepping down like that... he says it will not be as harsh a fall if it does - fine with me - I didn't want it to be too loud sounding in the house - I had a hard time sleeping with the bedroom window open and hearing the tiny fountain in the bathtub pond - I am SUCH A LIGHT SLEEPER - hate that!!! So it's a VERY good thing that he knows more about the technical apsects for the pond - I just can't wait to plant around it and have some fishies, ya know???
Took these pics this afternoon - don't know why they came out so yellow - Don worked like crazy on it last weekend cutting it down a step and putting in the biofilter on top of the waterfall, and the skimmer down to the right. I think it looks much better at this height, and not so much like a Mayan Ruin anymore.
The skimmer is about 3 feet down in the ground - you only see the top - It has to be in the open, but he said I could put a movable plant pot on top or something to help conceal it.
Don made GREAT headway this past weekend. Though he didn't have a good time of it - first getting stung badly on the forehead, just above the bridge of the nose, and then again later on, on his wrist!!! The one on his forehead is really bothering him today - the other not much at all...
Despite that, he smoothed out the edges in the pond, and put the sand down on the bottom to keep it soft under the liner. I think it was rather like a zen experience for this man who is very into his yoga - raking the sand into perfection!
all nice and clean and ready for the liner!!! YEA!!!
OK - so our neighbor, Dick, offered to help Don carry the very heavy liner to the pond and insert it. I could barely help the 2 of them roll it so they could carry it - my old bones have not been very nice to me lately, unfortunately.
Here is the liner all layed out so Don could take a look at it first. Dick is fixing it here...
Turning the liner over so the red words don't show in the pond!
Centering the liner in front of the pond before rolling it in... Don in the foreground, Dick in the back... that's Dick's house in the background.
Patting it into the shelves and lower rock level, and placing heavy rocks on it so it doesn't move anywhere!
Don trimmed the liner today - it will be trimmed a bit more once the rocks are all placed on top - another BIG job!!! See the garden in the lower right side where the large black pot is? The oval shaped dirt spot? That is where my tiny bathtub pond was the past 2 summers - quite a difference in sizes, huh???
Ahh ha!! The skid of flat rocks are finally finding their place!! YAYYYY
Can you use a pump and get it out!!!????? Ohh man that would be a mesquitos Breeding heaven if you can't pump it out! Do you have any of thos mesquito biscuts that you put in bird baths so there won't be any larva??
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
HMMMMMMMM, Diane - I didn't even think of mosquitoes!!! I'll have to mention that to Don!!!! We don't have any of the dunks - better go look for some tomorrow!
It is isn't it Christy!! I think maybe we should all go visit Lynne and go for a New York Swim , when it's finished .. It looks like the size of an olympic pool!! I know it isn't that big but still it's big! It will be soooo cool to see it all completed!!
How the progess coming Lynne???
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
Okay...I just found this thread, and now I feel like I'm waiting for the birth of a baby...NO PICS IN NEARLY 2 WEEKS!!!!!....did Don hurt his back???....this is harder than waiting for the Harry Potter book!!!!!!
"Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs." Jonah
Sorry all... I have been so exhausted driving my daughter all over the county this week, that when I finally got here I was too tired to size my pictures.
Hang on and I'll post some in a few minutes! (Don HAS been working slowly on it, as he does not want to hurt his back again, plus we've had a lot of rain recently... but it is coming along slowly but surely! Thanks for you interest!
(and I know what you mean about the Harry Potter book too - my daughter wanted to get one last night when Don picked her up from the diner right next door at 12:15a.m., but the line was riDICulous!!!)
And... here is the waterfall filter on the backside of the pond. It took about a day for him to piece all of it together from bits and pieces that he bought in assorted places:
We have a very busy day today, and he's out mowing the lawn right now, so I don't know if he'll get anything done today. Ohhhhhhhhhh, and by the way... he got ANOTHER pallet of flat rocks delivered as he had run out of them!
It's coming along nicely. I like the rounded rocks in the water fall. I think once the water is flowing over them it gives it a much more natural look than all flat.
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