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A pond in progress

September 26, 2011 in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Our fabulous gardener, Tony, came up with a brilliant idea to sort out an ugly, weed and rubble-filled patch of land to the right of our house. A pond! A few weeks ago a local man with a digger made a 5 foot hole, Tony put in the liner and to our amazement the pond started filling up all by itself. The following morning the pond was full from water that ran down the hillside. After a bit of impromptu dry-stone-walling by our super-hero builders (the same two who built Best View Barn) it’s looking pretty good. Planting won’t happen until the spring.

 

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    Our fabulous gardener, Tony, came up with a brilliant idea to sort out an ugly, weed and rubble-filled patch of land to the right of our house. A pond! A few weeks ago a local man with a digger made a 5 foot hole, Tony put in the liner and to our amazement the pond [...]
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