Pond Transformation

Monday my pond turned into this pondless waterfall. Low maintenance. Easy to take care of. 

Sunday I spent chiseling mortared stone and tearing the walls down. I'm not a spring chicken, so I didn't get it as far down as I'd wanted to. But FNC Ponds came in Monday and finished that part for me. And created what you see above. 

Here is what it looked like before:

A word of advice: Let a carpenter do what he does best. But don't have him build a pond. I had a wonderful guy do some phenomenal things to my house. He built my pavilion and fence. But he was out of his element with the pond. It just never had the natural look I yearned for.

So I found these guys, FNC Ponds of Tyler, to transform it. And what a job they did!

They were a bit surprised when, after lifting some of the flagstone up, they happened upon a giant frog living underneath my pond. They said it was about a foot tall. I wish they'd yelled at me to come see it. I assume now it's hiding in my yard, burrowed underneath another moist spot.

In five hours time, I had exactly what I wanted. A natural-appearing woodland area with planting space.

By the end of the following day, yesterday, it looked like this after I'd planted some things.

I love the roaring sound of the water. I eat my meals out here.

I may be missing from reading your blogs for a few more days. I'm banged up from falling twice over stuff while out there working. I've laid some of the path with the heavy flagstone left over. I may need a few days to recover in my recliner.