Darkavich's Daily Ramblings

Ok, as most of you know I have been unhappy with the waterfall in my back yard since the day it was install. I finally decided to tear it out and start all over.

They started by taking down all the rocks and diverting the transition stream. When they took up the liner they found several holes. This is where all my water has been seeping out. I am glad after almost 4 years we got to the bottom (pun intended) of it.

With the stream diverted, we now have a good area where the foot bridge will cross and I can put a bridge there for my trains. I am amazingly pleased with how well it came out.

At the end of the 1st day, they completed the bottom half of the new waterfall. The new waterfall will be more of a terraced drop instead of a cascade. This will give it a nice look. I plan to have two bridges that run over the falls. I just have to figure out how much space I will have.

The fences are all done now and we have privacy again.

I also had them replace the fence on the other side of the property, so we can now park our jet ski over there! What you didn’t know we had a new jet ski? More on that later.

Our fences came down today. They were able to sink all the posts today.

Tomorrow will be a busy day. I have lots of contractors on site. Four of them to be exact. They will be finishing the fences, running my new gas line, pool work and redoing my waterfall for my pond (and hopefully finding the leak).

So we finally cleared the dirt away and found the root (pun intended) of why our concrete slabs were lifted around our pool.

We are trying to decide what to do with this. It is too critical a root to cut. If we cut the root, the tree may loose stability over time. We are thinking of putting a fake rock feature around the pool edge that covers the roots. More details as we figure them out.