My husband and I spent this preceding weekend ripping out our featherbrained littlepond and waterfall . We cognise we would eventually murder it . In theory , it was a nice water lineament , but from a design standpoint , it stuck out like a sore pollex … in reality worse than a sore thumb to me .
It just look cockeyed — a misfit landscape painting feature that was just plunked there without much thought . So now that we are having abackyard renovation , we forecast , what the heck , let ’s get it out now while the acquiring is good and our landscaper can easy fill the hole with his skid lead and some of the extra soil he ’ll be carting out during the range process .
Mind you , removing say waterfall is only half done , and it ’s a heck of a mucky caper . It consists of about several thousand flat flag and shale rock candy pile on top of one another for about 4 foot up and 6 feet across . Each piece needs to be carried out and piled on the side for later role or dilute in the tractor cart , drive out the back gate and stacked in the Mrs. Henry Wood .
But before we embark on lugging the rock candy , we had to catch our two koi , Goldie and Genevieve , in a net and relocate them to a neighbour ’s water feature . They suffer two of theirs to a racoon this winter and were glad for the raw family additions .
Then we make out sic up the pump to drain the pond rather than re - circulate it . It took about three minute of pumping the water out onto the driveway to enfeeble it and one more hr to reduce out ( read : worm with ) the lining . What I regain beneath was right smart more worrisome than I was prepared for .
Whoever built the pool did n’t utilise one continuous sheet of pool lining but rather six modest pieces scantily overlapping one another ( which would excuse why the darn thing was always so leaky ) . Then underneath the lining pieces is about 5 column inch of play guts , which has remained permanently wet for as long as the pool has be . It is slick and slimy and jolly skanky . And to make matters worse , I ’m pretty certain when it dry out , it ’s going to be much like concrete .
The next step in the project is to polish off hauling away all the rocks ( many of which will be used to work up a new retaining wall and produce a stepping stone path to the vegetable garden ) and to get out the last piece of liner that is presently wedged under a big bucks of gloppy river rocks someone threw into the bottom of the pond ( belike the two little boys who lived in the theater before us ) . Then we have to fill up the gob , build say retaining wall and plant a nice Modern trivial garden .
I ’m trust it will only be three or four more day of oeuvre but clip will tell . Sometimes our projects have a agency of getting away from us . I ’m certain you jazz what I mean .
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