Visit the section regularly to see what the pond digger is up to this year. He seems to have endless enthusiasm for trying something new and upgrading. It always seems to involve moving rocks and a lot of digging. Some people have Harleys (motorcycles), we have our ponds….
April 3, 2015: The pond digger is secretly hoping that I will say yes to a new pond in Spring 2016 because he really does like building these ponds. Last year, he put in the large upper pond and was always dissatisfied at how the bottom drains functioned…and apparently it wasn’t as deep as he really wanted it to be. Since he is not allowed to drive a bobcat (we would be homeless if that was his day job), we hired a crew recommended to us by a member of the koi club. Here’s what’s been going on the last six hours…
April 19, 2015: While he was hoping to get the upper pond opened this weekend… weather, waiting for things to be delivered and something called work interfered. He’s been raving on and on about the TPRs and the RDF…things have been coming along. Here are some photos:


This is a large, expensive box that is suppose to make pond maintenance a breeze…

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May 1, 2015 Pond work is still happening…





May 3, 2015 a lot of progress made yesterday on the upper pond.
The liner folds were taped down and the pond digger started filling. We trimmed some of excess liner and cleaned up some of the landscaping. I purchased two more Walker Weeping Caraganas – miniature weeping willow type of tree, also known as peashrub). I would love to go get some more azaleas but we’ll have to see how the equipment area gets topped off first. The pond digger has said that the koi can be put into the pond later today. We’ll probably throw in ChaCha for the test run.
May 12, 2015 – more work getting done…
Sometimes the pond work is two steps forward and then one step back. We’re getting closer to thinking about landscaping but those thoughts are still a few weeks away. The upper pond is now functional. We’re thinking about using some diffusers for the upper pond and the bog filter is going to be bypassed with a second moving bed filter (I think this is the plan currently…) As for the lower pond, the pond digger has been thinking about different plans. Today the plan is to continue to use the bog filter, some sort of settling tank, a bead filter, yadda yadda yadda. I’ve learned to never really count on what’s going in until stuff actually starts getting built.




May 15 – May 17, 2015 Lowering the RDF