Yesterday I dug the new pond. I decided to start with the two holes that were already there and just connect and re-shape them. I started at 7:30am and stopped at 3:30pm. Whew! I still have some smoothing out to do before I put the liner on, but the hard digging work is done.
Today I plan to get the coping stones from the rock place and get the rubber liner from the pond supply place. I may or may not actually begin to install them. The pallet of stones weighs about 3000 pounds, which my truck can’t handle. That means I’ll take half of the pallet at a time. That means I’ll be loading and unloading 3000 pounds of rock by hand today. That means I may need to rest afterward.
Here is a picture of what I did. It looks smaller than actual size because the sun is not casting very many shadows. The pond hole is about 7 feet wide and 12 feet long. Its deepest point is about two and a half feet. At that depth, I was digging mostly clay and stone. I may be taking ibuprofen for a while…
PSA:Today is my Half Birthday! Yay!! I am 38 years and six months today. Hooray! It’s traditional on your half birthday to have everyone tell you how awesome you are.
Well, Awesome Brad, at least if you die from all the pain, you have a handsome permanent resting place nearby. Happy Half-Birthday!
Well done, Grand Master. You were so lucky to have the help of Warren the Rabbit to dig your pond, but I am sure that Refield the Pumpkin did his part.
You must plan a happy hour after school during the first week back. I would love to see your garden while having a drink!
Are you sure you don’t want a pool instead?
Nice job you awesome gardener/pond creator! 🙂
… and nice hat! Let’s see that forehead!
It’s amazing!
Yea…and happy anniversary to Brent and Sandra. They happened to get married on Brad’s half birthday and are always getting over shadowed.
Nice pond hole.
A = always busy, making the rest of us look slothful
W = wonderful garden, new kitty, and blog site
E = excellent photography skills, particularly of feet
S = superior at his [that word we can’t type now]
O = often a source of unique humor that keeps us all in stitches
M = mostly kind and compassionate, unless you have long ears, longer hind legs, and a cotton-white tail
E = eternally a source of smiles for his readers
Put ’em all together and what have you got? “Bippidy boppidy boo!!”
Happy 1/2 B-day, GM Royuk!! (I tried to post the GM part yesterday but technology thwarted me, as it did others I presume.)
Oh, my Goodness, Carol- that’s lovely!
Carol-that’s so AWESOME!! (my 1/2 b-day was July 30th; I don’t mind belated cool messages, songs, poems, etc.)
P = pretty (y’all should see the front of her head!
E = excited, emotive
G = giggly (I just heard we might not hear your laugh in the MS building this year – NOT) good
S = supportive, super efficient
T = teasing prankster
E = effervescent
R = real trooper
“Put them all together, they spell Peh-eh-egg-ster!”
Happy belated, gal! Now, anybody else out there need an acrostic done for them?? I need the distraction…
I’ll need one. But wait until August 28. That’s my birthday. 😀
Carol, I love it — thank you so much — !!!
I’ve been so bummed ever since I got the news that I’ve been kicked out of the neighborhood … 🙁
(sigh-tear-eat a ton of chocolate-sigh-tear)
Carol mentioned rabbits and that reminds me … how about that rabbit dance last night on “So You Think You Can Dance?” I laughed my head off thinking of Brad and the bunny in the coffin, even though it was a little scary … like Wizard of Oz scary!
Wow!! I’m really impressed!! That pond is going to be so amazing!! Can you give me just a titch of your energy??? You just can’t slow down this summer, can you? Are you on drugs?
Oh BTW: You’re awesome!
Useless info for ‘ys all: Today my my-mother-in-law is 80 years old.
80 on 08-08-08
That’s amazing. I love crazy numerical happenings…LOVE.
What’s her name? I’ll do an acrostic for her…and I don’t even know her, so who knows what words I’ll come up with and if they’ll match her personality or not. Could be interesting, Peg! (Hope her first name is shorter than DiBasilio, though…)
Her name is Guissipina Dimassimontonia … but everyone calls her Pina or Non …
Since who would kid about a name like Giussipina EvenlongerthanDiBasilio, I’m going for the shorter ones:
P = pretty doggone old already – good for you!
I = imagine getting one of these done by a total stranger…
N = no need to thank me…really…
A = a Happy 80th Birthday to you, dear lady!
…or…
N = no names easy to spell OR to pronounce
O = old is really a state of mind; hope you are feeling young!
N = need to validate your wonderful daughter-in-law, Pegster – she rocks!
Okay…I’m sure she’ll never see these, so I won’t sweat the lameness.
Carol that is awesome & hilarous!! 🙂
Yea you!
A very merry Unbirthday to you, To you,
It’s great to drink to someone,
And I guess that you will do,
A very merry
Unbirthday to you!
Ah, a gal after me’ own (hic) heart.
–she who keeps a half-full bottle of Ameretto at the ready from atop her refrigerator at home at all times
I thought perhaps you were digging your way to the Olympics.