Keeping character, or restoring a pond

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He brought us four baskets, about twenty five hundred pounds a basket.

They were all prettier than the next.

I know, some don't think rocks are pretty. But they're the ones that need Levitra while all we need is la see tra. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Tom is the one along with his wife Michelle and son TJ that supplied all the rocks for the memory stones. They did it at no cost to us.

So here's a shameless plug.

Just for them.

 

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Here's Tom ducking from internet exposure.

If we were closer to the lake I'd call him a dam ham. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

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I went down to Nation's Rent and picked up this little baby after lunch. Check out the width of it's tracks fully expanded and the pattern of my ramps as close as they can get.

Yup, we call loading and unloading that baby pucker string exercising one oh one. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

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But she do do good.

I ordered the biggest bucket available because it's a lot less about digging a trench and more about moving material.

 

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This is a shot of the footing and two of our piers we're putting in every ten feet of beam.

 

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It took seven nine cubic foot mixer loads to fill in those piers and that piece of beam.

 

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We're laying a base course of twelve inch Halite (cinder) blocks on the beam. Above that we'll go with eight inchers so we have a four inch ledge to place our stone facia.

 

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This is what yesterday's work looked like in the light of day and without it's forms.

 

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We are having fun. And we're getting a lot done each day, weather permitting.

But what for me is just about as much as anything is how it's getting done. Three old men, one forty nine, one fifty seven, and one will be fifty eight next month. In three weeks we've moved some dirt, mixed some concrete, and formed into a team.

And what's as rewarding for me as the work is the look in the eyes of my co-workers. They feel as much a part of it as I do and are contributing accordingly.

Few things in life are finer.

 

[Larstan]

Don't you just love it when things really start to take shape /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif Keeper comin Harv.....