Hi Mum,
No, we haven't lined it. It's staying up pretty good for now, but I warned hubby that my long term plan is to concrete line it. I want to trench a drain line at the bottom depth and put in a pretty large diameter pvc pipe with enough slope for it to gravity drain down below, where I...
Heya Julie. I think the "pretty pond" is going to turn into a mudpit before we know it!
PS. Baby turkeys are doing great! We took them camping last week--to Oklahoma. They peeped the whole time, unless I was holding them. Oh, boy, spoiled little babies. I think they are finally getting...
Yeah, that was so funny. They went all around the pond, reaching down with their bills to see if it was any closer. There are a couple of places where it's sloped, so they could have walked down, but they ignored those and ended up jumping right off the side.
Thanks for the lovely comments. I feel so much better about their life, now. Last night when I got home from work, I let them out of their day pen, and they went RUNNING to the pond. They were splashin' and divin'. It was quite the little par-tay.
I picked up some water lettuce on the way...
My very awesome hubby made our ducks a duck pond on Sunday!
He used our tree spade, which digs a cone shaped 3' by 3' hole. He had to dig out a little by hand, but only to open up the bottom a little.
The ducks, waiting [not so] patiently, for the water to come up enough.
"Now, Momma? Can...