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new pics
Can you guess what we used for a pond skimmer?
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel

Your pond is gorgeous!! I just put in a new pond too, but yours totally dwarfs mine lol:) Great work!

I showed Andy your photos the other night...kind of leading in to telling him that we needed something like that here.
So...the moment finally came and I said "You know, we have a perfect spot for a pond thing happening out there by the driveway. You know, a little stream thing going down some rocks into a little pond, with 3 or 4 ducks. And we can fence the side yard in and get that goat I've been wanting, and it would easy since we have a backhoe and you know all about that kind of stuff (trying to play on his manly knowledge thing, you know), and actually we could have it kind of starting at the front yard and meandering into the rocks going down the hill into the pond...."
I think I got a little carried away, maybe with the ducks or the goat. Not sure. But, he wasn't real receptive to the idea I guess, since all he said was "Who do you think's getting kicked off Survivor tonight?"

A spagetti strainer on a stick!

awesome pond jenni

Creepin' Jenni,
Great Pond!!!
Now that's alot of work!!!

I love it!
I can't wait to get one,
I a year or two or three :rolleyes:

Thanks for sharing with that!!!

I didn't see the pond skimmers, what'd you use???

Weezie

Did "Scarlet" see it yet? What'd she think???

Cindy,
Tell Andy, what a great sense of humor he
has, that's funny, that's exactly something my
husband would say!!!

I say the same thing about the goats and the ducks. I would love to have just a couple of them, and a couple chickens.

But I live in town, so my husband knows he's safe.

Weezie

Weezie-
We used a blue storage tub, cut one side down to attach the liner. You can see the lid to it on the top waterfall, just gonna cover it with flagstone.

Jenni,
I see it now!!!
I thought that just covered the top for
stuff to not get into the top of the waterfall,
duh, I guess, I have alottttttttttt to learn about ponds!!!!!

I still say it looks great!!!

Weezie

I love the pond!! Oh, i wish i had one.
How long did it take to complete?

WOW amazing pond.

Thanks Rue,
Still very much in progress Barb H
It is my very favorite thing in my yard

Did you put any fish in it? That would be a lot more work with all the cleaning of fish poo~doo!

I will keep you in mind when I am ready to get started building....and believe me I will have LOTS of questions for you! :rolleyes:

I have about 15 3" koi in the bottom part. I put some filters in the pump box(we just used a sump pump)not to bad with the fish poop.