Just Little Bites ...

[RayIN]

You're gonna be surprised how fast that fills-in with gravel from upstream. You can't drive much in that loose gravel either.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Bucket can scoop out loose gravel!

About 1/2 a mile from the spring where this creek starts ...

 

[Shawn T. W.]

It worked!

I got 350 gallons pumped out to water my trees yesterday!

 

[Shawn T. W.]

I got home late this morning, and put the BH back on, and went down to the creek again ... My thought is I want to make the creek crossing wider, the the water flow will be more spread out once it starts to flow, and hopefully not wash out this spring ...

I figure if I can push the whole bank back about 3'-4', and keep the same level of the creek crossing it will be a good afternoons worth of work!

It was nice T-shirt weather, eventually the clouds came in, it forecast to storm tomorrow ...

So I started digging! Widening the reservoir to get it to open up into the crossing better ...

There is a reason this area is called Rocky Hollow ... Fortunately none are big! (And I'm not using a shovel & wheelbarrow!)

Scoop it ever which way I can ... Just little bites at a time ...

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Gotta build the ramp back out for the crossing, it needs to be more gradual to get the mower across ...

Got the ramp the way I like it, while I can go up it with this little tractor, I need it 3 times as wide for the mower ...

I added all the dark dirt today!

Done for now ...

 

[tacticalturnip]

73 degrees? Oh man, enjoy the seat time.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Yeah, that was at 17:40 ... We had a high of 76°!

But it won't last ... Not normal for here,, this time of year, local weather station is saying a few records were broken ...

This now at 02:45 it saying ... But I'm.leaving in a bit to go down near Houston, TX c

 

[tacticalturnip]

Oh that's a big swing in temperature.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Got home today and was on my way to do a fencing project, and swung by the creek, it's full and flowing, I'm quite happy that I widened the creek crossing as it seems to spread out the volume, as long as it stays the same as this, the grass will take over most of it ...

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Was out today digging a little ditch, taking little bites with the 6" trenching bucket ... Found a BIG rock!

It stuck out of the bucket about 16"-18", Little Baby Fergie definitely knew it was back there when we took off with it!

 

[Shawn T. W.]

The expansion is still holding up GOOD, I'm very happy with it, went down to get a load of water yesterday, as we haven't had much rain recently ... I saw a few small 3/4" long fish, not sure where they came from, but they like the pond! Hopefully it's deep enough now to hold them through the summer!

I also saw a small 1" long crayfish/crawdad, and a bunch of pollywogs ...

A bit of a too full load!

 

[bdhsfz6]

The expansion is still holding up GOOD, I'm very happy with it, went down to get a load of water yesterday, as we haven't had much rain recently ... I saw a few small 3/4" long fish, not sure where they came from, but they like the pond! Hopefully it's deep enough now to hold them through the summer!

I also saw a small 1" long crayfish/crawdad, and a bunch of pollywogs ...

A bit of a too full load!

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Nice project! I envy your ability to do it. The DEP would throw me in jail if I attempted to do something like that around here.