the timeline

July 31, 2002

Checked the leaf basket and found one of the shubunkin had taken a wild ride up the bottom drain and was mangled in the leaf basket. Amazingly enough, after laying flat on the bottom of the pond for a day, covered in silt, with all appearances of being dead, he's now revived and is swimming about, although not very steadily since several fins were damaged. We'll see. Pond pump is currently shut off pending decision on "what to do".

July 30, 2002

Introduced three brave shubunkin into their new home, the large pond.

July 17, 2002

Had .8 tons of Pennsylvania blue flagstone (for walk way) and .3 tons of Oklahoma flag stone delivered, and with the help of Randy Coke, got pretty much the last of the rocks in place.

January 12, 2002

Spent our gift certificate to Custom Stone Supply that we'd won at our church's bazaar on .17 tons of Mt. Gold Thin Flag, .32 tons of Holy Rock, and .20 tons of Cloud Schist boulder. Also bought and unloaded half-yard of compost/topsoil/sand mixture from Living Earth Technologies to build up the waterfall.

January 9, 2002

Donna Robins and Kathy Zahrt complete the first phase of electrical work, burying conduits and setting up grounded outlets for our power needs.

November, 2001

Pump was installed and configured several times before it really was working right, but now it's working great!

September 16, 2001

Placed rocks around rim of about one-fourth of the pond. Already ran out of rocks. Amazing! I told Dawn we didn't have enough. Added a couple dozen more mosquito fish to the pond so the neighbors wouldn't all rise up in revolt regarding our mosquito colony. Ordered our pump from Water Gardens Galore.

August 18, 2001

Brought in about 1,000 pounds of rocks from the neighbors of Dawn's grandparents in Krum Made the joyous discovery of baby shubunkin on this day -- seven that we can count, in our small hard-liner pond.

August 11, 2001

Filled pond with water

August X, 2001

Placed liner

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Finished digging

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Started digging

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Restored shubunkin and their small pond to the big outdoors

Fall 2000

Deck-washed original decks and treated with Thompson's water seal

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Moved small pond and its inhabitants into the claw-footed tub downstairs

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Got first pond