Keeping character, or restoring a pond

[wroughtn_harv]

The way it was.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Isn't always the way it was meant to be.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I'ts amazing what a little flagstone will do. Here's the unfinished (we've got coping and landscape to do) approach to the deck.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Here it is week one.

 

[jinman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Isn't always the way it was meant to be. )</font>

I'm ready to see it with water. Think R-A-I-N. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Jim,

I've went all the way to Colorado to find floating boulders, in real water no less. Just to confirm that it wasn't a fluke of nature I've searched Wyoming and Montana too and found that Mother Nature has had success putting boulders in pools of water and they've appeared to be floating.

Tomorrow I'll be looking in Washington and then hopefully next week I'll look in Oregon and California has the same phenomenon happening there.

If I find that the case then I guess I'll have to believe it's only Texas that has problems with boulders and water together in harmony.

Actually I was hoping my leaving the state would allow the rain to come back. According to the news I'm getting in motels that isn't the case. It's still dry down there.

But there's one thing that's worse than Texas not getting any rain. It's Montana's version of mexican food.

 

[BB_TX]

<font color="blue"> I'm ready to see it with water. Think R-A-I-N. </font>
I just spent 4 days in Phoenix, in the desert, and it rained 2 of those days. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif I was hoping it would follow me home, but no luck. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[jinman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I've went all the way to Colorado to find floating boulders, in real water no less. Just to confirm that it wasn't a fluke of nature I've searched Wyoming and Montana too and found that Mother Nature has had success putting boulders in pools of water and they've appeared to be floating. )</font>

They have much heavier water than we do. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Heck! Even this weekend they say we may get some very light rain. I'm sure we need some of that heavy rain to float your boulders. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

It sounds like you are having one heckuva good time on your trip...except for the Mexican food. Oh well, you need something to bring you back to Texas besides work. I'm looking forward to hearing how your barn-raising in the northwest goes. I bet they like it as much as we do. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

We're having a great time. Yesterday was spent in Yellowstone.
All I could think of was how I could use some of Mother Nature's ideas on a project in the future. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

There won't be a northwest barn raising this trip. There was no interest shown online and our schedule was a little tight to begin with.

But I'm sure next year there will be a week or so delegated just for a barn in Lebanon Oregon. She's not the kind of woman to take no for an answer for long. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Right now I'm working on a deal to install a screen fence at a high school for a major fence company. If I can get the connectors approved by the high school then we'll install the fence using our bracket system.

If we do that then I'm going to have to lean on a fellow tbnr's expertise preparing a press release for the trades about the brackets. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

But that's then and this is now. Hopefully we'll get some rain in Texas. It would be nice to have the pond still dry for some detail work yet to be done. However it would be nicer to have it full of water just to see if we accomplished what we wanted to accomplish.

Seeing the boulders in the streams and rivers has heightened my desire to see the pond full of water. I know we can't compete with Mother Nature's art but we can copy and hopefully catch the spirit of her concepts.

One of the interesting things about the construction up here is the lack of interesting rock work. Here they have all these fantastic materials to work with and they seem to only want to work with the pine logs. And most of that seems to be copy cat patterns. After about three log homes you've seen them all. They're beautiful to be sure. But it does seem to be either a very limited source of design ideas or the material itself is limited.

Gawd, I hate limits. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

The only thing bad about vacations is they invariably end. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Every job has it's cut up. You know the one. Yeah, that one.