Help with a dig pattern.

[Jeff]

[thecfarm]

I did not know you are that close to the Great Lakes. 

[aigheadish]

Very pretty Jeff!

My water level is up, but still not near full. We've got ducks! Duckee and Scrooge.

[Jeff]

How I fixed the leaks in the dike.

[21incher]

As you were drilling the holes I was waiting for oil to come squirting out 😀 so we could sing old Jeff's a millionaire.  Actually it looks like you have hit the jackpot from hard work. Being right off the lake a small windmill may help your  aerator in the winter months. 

[Magicman]

Those soft(er) spots in the levee may gradually collapse and further seal themselves.  This could leave slight sinkholes or low spots which you may or may not even notice.  You will probably bring more dirt in and raise that portion of the levee anyway.

Anyway, looking good. 

[Resonator]

Pond is looking nice!  
That bentonite clay is good stuff, used it to plug up are abandoned water well. They mine it out west, I used to haul flatbed loads of bags out of Wyoming and western South Dakota.

Roots, stumps, or other organic matter can leave a void over time when building up a grade. Good if they can be removed while the dirt is being dug, good you found it when you did. Even one of the excavator pro's on youtube who does pond building has had issues with leaking ponds, he just calls it "warrantee work".

[Peter Drouin]

Looks good Boss. I don't know about the dye. Is it ok for wildlife, fish? Do you get green/blue fish? or deer with green/blue mouth?  Can a human drink it? Or the bugs that are on top of the water ok?

[Jeff]

[doc henderson]

kind of a messy eater!  gobble gobble.

[Texas Ranger]

Kinda like my youngest grandson.

[SwampDonkey]

I saw one of those turkeys this morning, but it had been hit by a vehicle and laying at the mouth of the drive way into a neighbor's house. Turkey for dinner. 

Been an old Tom with two hens around here.

[Nebraska]

That was cool.  

[Jeff]

Two shots taken from what is now the solar powered camera on the pond. I built a solar array yesterday including an inverter and nighttime battery backup. When I get a few extra bucks I'm ready to add a planned aerator that will keep the pond from freezing. It is also powering a wifi extender  so,  totally wireless.

[Magicman]

Nice and useful installation.  

I keep intending to ask what is behind the orange barrier mesh, just nosy? 

[Jeff]

Last fall, Furby gave me a ton of hasta plants that were to be discarded.  Within that 100ft perimeter fence, I planted 196 hasta plants. Deer are supposed to love em. I'm trying to get them established before we find out. 

[Magicman]

OK, I remember the Hosta plants but I missed where they were planted.  Deer regularly mow PatD's Hosta plants here at home. 

It's surprising that they have not hopped over there.

[Jeff]

So far, no sign of coming up. The roots look good, but everytheverything on top was dead and gone.

[thecfarm]

I have not look at my hostas, but doubt they are up yet.
Them things will spread too. If the deer don't kill them back.

[SwampDonkey]

Rhubarb is above ground here, but it is still early for some stuff. Only wild flower out yet here is colts foot, which has been out since March.

[beenthere]

I'd like it if the deer loved, or even paid attention, to my hosta plants. I'm trying an experiment to train them by draping a piece of rubber roofing over them with a 5" hole cutout. May work, and may not. 

[Magicman]

So far, no sign of coming up.

OK, I forgets about da Glaciers.  PatD's are just coming back from da deer nubbin them off.

[SwampDonkey]

First day I seen trout lily and purple trillium coming up in the woodlot.

Hosta just breaking ground here and that is on the south end of the garage. I don't see any up out by the road yet, but there is probably 6" of dead plant material laying on top of them. Grows like a jungle in that spot, dark rich ground. :D

[Nebraska]

Looks like the leaking is stopped pretty well in the pond looks full from the pictures. 

[Jeff]

There is still a slow seep that is hard to detect Tammy and I did some exploratory boring yesterday and found another wet root/route  we injected a series of holes with the two bags of bentonite we had. Im sure the leek is simply a layer of topsoil that was at the lowest part of the top of the original dike. It's actually seeping out of what would be my emergency spillway if my overflow, was never not enough. We planted hastas and Day lillies around the base of the solar array.

The aerator pump will sit beside the new battery, that my son donated out of a truck with a bad transmission. A hose will go to to diffusers on each side of the pond.