Kevin's Obsession

[Mellifluous]

Here is what hubby has been spending his time and money on - it is not finished. I still have to take care of the plantings around the pond, but he did what you see here by himself. Pretty neat! I bought some fish last week and we are still waiting for the water to clear up so we can see them really well.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/Pond1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/Pond2.jpg

[motorgypsy]

That is really lovely! I'd like to do something like that on our farm. We have plenty of rock and two streams. What kind of fish did you put in? Are you going to do any water plants like lotus or lily?

[baileyholc]

Beautiful. I have always wanted a pond. But, Hubbie says their is no place to put one. I think we have plenty of room he just is to lazy to build it. :mad:

[Mellifluous]

I bought some comets and shubunkins (sp?) The comets are white with orange spots and one is orange with black spots. The shubunkins are blue spotted.

We have a hardy water lilly in there (not to the top yet), Kevin is going to order a tropical lilly (Red Flare) that he really wants.
We went a little plant crazy!

We have these plants in the pond too! It is an experiement to see what grows best. We also have lots of hardy water lilly and lizards tail that we did not put back in from our old water garden. Anyone want some?

Papyrus
Umbrella Palm
Water Celery
Rain Lilies
Pickerel
Lizard's Tail
Zebra Rush
Blue-Eyed Grass
Parrot Feather
Creeping Jenny

[LynnG]

a reflection pool...very nice.....I'll order one for my back yard.....

[CarolU]

Beautiful!!!! I have a friend here who builds these professionally (of course here they make NO SENSE, it is a desert after all and LOTS of water evaporates). Yours is very pretty!!!

I'd love one too, but I can see it now...

fish = cat food
water = bird bath = cat food
water = bird bath = dog toy
water = laborador swimming pool = no fish or plants

Hmmmm, I'm really TRYING to see how this might work.

But Kevin's is TRUELY pretty and I do LOVE birds. I hope you get 'nice ones....

water + fish = bird dinner

[Terri]

That is beautiful, I have two neighbors who build one. One is in a beautiful shaded spot, the other is more out in the open and has turned into a bird feeder for Blue Herron. I hope you really enjoy!

[Cindy]

Is Kevin for rent by any chance? :D

[Minouri]

I think the trick is to buy the fish that are bigger than the cat.

Beautiful pond though! Do you rent out your husband for landscaping other ppls backyards?

[Cindy]

Ha! Beat you to it Minouri. :lol:

[Minouri]

:notworthy :rofl :notworthy :rofl :notworthy

[Linda Y]

That is truly beautiful! I would love a pond like that in the yard. Sigh... :roll:

[Dianne]

Funny fish story........and seeing your jack reminded me of it :D
Another forum i was on for JRTs someone had posted what a great idea it was to put feeder fish in a kiddy wading pool for our jacks to enjoy catching and cooling off :lol:
fast forward to a week later...................

Several of my friends got together for a BBQ and bought their JRTs along and after the food was ready we were happily munching away ...except..for Judy's jack "torQ"....we hear a ruckus and splashing
out by their brand new pond with several brand new Koi in it..each costing around $100 :shock: ..several of us run out back and see him having a BLAST catching fish and tossing them around! we all pile in and try to put the gasping slippery fishies back into the water while Judy is trying desperatly to catch her now wet and equaly slippery JRT :lol: ..well by the time it was all over there were several Koi casualties and Judy asked how much they had cost :lol: ...ended up her hubby snarled to her to "just write them a check" Hmmmm $400 later .....LOLOLOLOL

[Minouri]

whoopsie daisy.........lol

[cowboy ed]

mel, tell kevin to be on frog alert after you get the fish in there. bullfrogs are notorious for getting in these little ponds and eating the fish. my mom had to put a net over her pond to keep the bullfrogs out.

[Pasogirlz]

I say the pond could use a turtle. ;-)

[Mellifluous]

I bet Kevin would be more than happy to give you guys some advice on pond/water garden building. He had a few trial and error episodes with the waterfall that taught him some valuable lessons...and lots of repeated rock stacking. I tried to talk him into going into business with me, I design and he builds. I don't think he felt that was quite fair, plus he said that he would never build another one. I guess that it was pretty hard work - moving and stacking all of those rocks. ;-)

We actually had a smaller water garden before this one. We had 15 fish, some of them the great grandbabies of the original fish. A blue heron came and ate them all. Kevin saw him right afterwards. The bird was so full that he could not fly. It made us sick because we had those fish trained to come to the top so we could feed them out of our hands and "pet" them (easy pickins for a heron). Kevin is installing a motion detection anti-heron defense system for the fish. Until that is in, we are hoping that the fish are still skittish enough to hide out in the special places we made for them with the rocks.

I never thought about bullfrogs eating the fish! We have tons and tons of frogs and tadpoles. Could a bullfrog eat a 5" fish???? Scary.

We actually did think about a turtle but figured that between the cat and the dog, it would bit the dust at some point. I love turtles so I would hate to put one through that. We may get a little concrete one to sit near the edge of the rocks. :D

[CarolU]

My firend has herons get in and eat her fish (she raises them for her ponds). I imagine your dog will have fun chasing the birds away for you.

[motorgypsy]

Are you putting in one of those water sprinkler motion detector things? We need that for our goats to keep them out of the hay stack. Let us know how it works. Couldn't you put netting like deer netting over the pond and plant the plants down through it? They also make a black plastic chicken wire that is pretty tough and would be invisible on top of the pond.

Kevin doesn't understand - you plan the garden, he makes phone calls and gets the materials all loaded up in his truck by someone else, then he supervises while some minimum wage guy does all the work. Then you and he live the good life on the profit! You know how along the highway during construction there are always five guys standing around watching the smallest and youngest guy out there digging with a shovel doing all the work. That's the American way!! ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

[Barbwire]

Wow, that is a very nice little pond ya got there!

[Jane Hurl]

LOVE the pond ... but laughing at Bailey!

I have always wanted a pond. But, Hubbie says their is no place to put one. I think we have plenty of room he just is to lazy to build it.

Ummmmm...Bailey? Why is it that it's HUBBY who's too lazy? (Insert smartass line here that refers to pianos and hinnies. *grin*)

[Bayou]

Pretty pond! We have one in our yard too! They are alot of work but well worth it in the long run. Right now we have 7 Goldfish and 8 Koi (in the Carp family) I would tell anyone to buy Koi! They are a very pretty fish!


Heres our Goldfish (we lost one of the goldfish to a Owl) and Koi
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Bayou_Girl/pond%20pics/miscpictures083.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Bayou_Girl/pond%20pics/miscpictures109.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Bayou_Girl/pond%20pics/miscpictures115.jpg

[Brigitte]

that's a nice pond!!

[Jasfino]

Thats a beautiful pond Lexi. Your more lucky than you know to have a guy like that.

Baileyholc, I finally decided to dig my own. It was a smaller one so I though what the heck.. I can do this. I grabbed a shovel and started digging away. Things went ok until I hit a few tree roots, and then it started going slower.. ;-) Next thing I knew after a few hours... I was standing in a knee deep hole in the ground, with people in their cars slowing down as they drove by.... looking strangely at me. I laughed to myself.. I bet they think she's finally went over the deep end.. and thats her hubby's grave she's digging :shock: Once I got to digging so fast that I fell into the hole.. :roll: I think I had been digging for too long....

Anyway, I finally got it dug and hubby was so shocked/surprised that I had attempted it on my own. It was very pretty for the first yr or so, but I had dogs, and cats that would get my fish. Frogs and snakes finally took it over and even mosquitoes and I was constantly having to buy those things to drop in it to keep them at bay. I did get alot of compliments on it, but they are alot of work.

[baileyholc]

I wish I could get someone to build me a pond. :( I like pond and fish. They are so relaxing to watch. Plus they give you something to do when you have nothing else. You can feed the fish. :razz: