And now for the pond....

Okay so I took a break from playing with my new toy, and went back to working on the yard. Over the last few days, I've put in two new sidewalks with paving stones, relandscaped around the front of the house, and set up the pond.

Now it's starting to come together, but it's not quite done yet. Tomorrow I hope to finish the pond off and hook up the fountain. I still need to clean up the stones around the side sidewalk, put in the overflow for the pond, and put a few finishing touches on the pond. I need to get some pictures.

Now that I'm nearing the end, I can't help but look at lighting. Now that it all looks so good, I sort of want to add some solar lighting. But I suppose that will have to wait.

Besides the few finishing touches I have to work on tomorrow, I still need to put the new deck belt on the mower and cut the grass...all of the grass! I might have failed to mention that while today was wickedly productive it had its low points.

For starters my wife and daughter left to go see family in Pennsylvania. It's not like this is my first few days alone. It has happened before, but it still gets lonely without Maggie, my daughter, running around behind me and "helping," or without Stacy to bounce ideas off of as I work.

Two other low points for the day included the reason I need to replace the belt on the mower and ants. I tried to mow some of the grass today; unfortunately, the belt for the cutting deck caught fire and snapped or melted. Regardless of whether it snapped or melted, I need to replace it. Never a fun job.

The final insult of the day came when I was getting a load of old bricks from behind our dilapidated barn to fill in around the pond. I started loading bricks and soon felt a familiar sting on my arms and legs. Yep, fire ants! Not too bad, but I have little bites on my arms and legs. Luckily I saw them before they really started to swarm, and I had gloves on.

Well, this post had nothing to do with school or my new toy, but I'm trying to get into the habit of writing more regularly. Here's hoping!