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...and lived to regret it, when our first long-awaited rain
storm hit. Everyone else was thrilled at the rain, and we
were staring at the skies, just sick about it! The nice neat
bags of sand in their nice paper bags were now reduced to
heaps and paper mush.
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A slightly different angle. |
Dawn really did work on the pond too. I wasn't insane -- her
birthday present was getting the hole STARTED. She's spreading
out the sand in the bottom of the pond. |
We've started the brick perimeter. The plan is to stack the
bricks two levels high, since we had bricks laying around for
this purpose and rocks are so darned expensive, for the outside
of the pond liner. |
Here we've started to place the felt liner hanging over the
bricks and down the sides of the pond. This helps prevent punctures
and tears in the (expensive) liner. |
A close-up view of the liner draped over the brick row.
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Yet another close-up; can't have too many! |
Me standing in the middle of my lovely pit, felt liner all in place, ready to place the liner.
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The folks at Water Gardens Galore gave us an excellent recommendation
re placing the liner -- fold it like you would a pie crust,
and then maneuver the center of the liner that you have subsequently
found into the middle of the pond. I think this is a great idea;
unfortunately, we had no place in the yard that was safe enough
and big enough to lay out the liner. Also, at 170 pounds, we
just couldn't handle moving it that much. |
So we did the best we could, and I think it worked out pretty well. Here's the liner,
all placed, ready to start filling with water.
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