For Father’s Day, both of the boys gave Mike two free days of labor to put our water fall back together. We planned the event for the weekend after Father’s Day, when Mike and I would be back from Coeur d’Alene and we could get all of the tools and equipment organized for the event.
This is the before...
This is the water fall at this point was almost complete - but very ugly!!! The rain barrel had blown over to the pond during the spring storms, you can clearly see our Christmas tree had blown there too, what a mess!!! It only took two flat deck trucks full of rock, one track hoe, a jumping jack to tamp the ground hard enough to support the weight of the water fall, both our sons, one guy from the roofing crew, a friend of Andrew’s ( who got roped into one day’s hard labor) Mike, to plan everything and two full days of putting a rock down...everyone looking at it...deciding that it was not the right shape, or the right slope, too big, too small ...moving the rock out with the track hoe...putting in another rock...etc. etc.
Finally, on Sunday, they decided that the structure was good enough and they turned on the waterfall. The water did not fall exactly as they wanted, so they made some last minute adjustments and called it quits. Now all I have to do is get in there and naturalize the edges of the pond, to make it look like it has been there for a hundred years, a few more rocks, a few shrubs and some flowers and then we can go and get some fish!!!!
If I could figure out how to get another picture in this darn blog, I would show you the totally finished result, with the water running down the falls. It is much bigger than in this last picture, as due to technical difficulties and a slip with the hoe, the large cap rock cracked in half and they had to build higher than originally planned. The darn guys stold some rock off of my dry stack stone fence to keep going and just before the sun went down, the falls were complete. I will have to post another photo to show you after I am done the planting.
This is the before...
This is the water fall at this point was almost complete - but very ugly!!! The rain barrel had blown over to the pond during the spring storms, you can clearly see our Christmas tree had blown there too, what a mess!!! It only took two flat deck trucks full of rock, one track hoe, a jumping jack to tamp the ground hard enough to support the weight of the water fall, both our sons, one guy from the roofing crew, a friend of Andrew’s ( who got roped into one day’s hard labor) Mike, to plan everything and two full days of putting a rock down...everyone looking at it...deciding that it was not the right shape, or the right slope, too big, too small ...moving the rock out with the track hoe...putting in another rock...etc. etc.
Finally, on Sunday, they decided that the structure was good enough and they turned on the waterfall. The water did not fall exactly as they wanted, so they made some last minute adjustments and called it quits. Now all I have to do is get in there and naturalize the edges of the pond, to make it look like it has been there for a hundred years, a few more rocks, a few shrubs and some flowers and then we can go and get some fish!!!!
If I could figure out how to get another picture in this darn blog, I would show you the totally finished result, with the water running down the falls. It is much bigger than in this last picture, as due to technical difficulties and a slip with the hoe, the large cap rock cracked in half and they had to build higher than originally planned. The darn guys stold some rock off of my dry stack stone fence to keep going and just before the sun went down, the falls were complete. I will have to post another photo to show you after I am done the planting.
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