Help with a dig pattern.

[Jeff]

 

 

[Jeff]

How high's the water Mama?  ???

Five Feet High and Rising - YouTube

Perfect!! Tammy just got me a new Johnny Cash tshirt!

[YellowHammer]

That looks like a complete success to me.  The first thing that came to my mind when I saw how well that point looked was that many pond builders here put a little island in the pond to deter predators as a perfect place for ducks and geese to nest and just generally relax.  A safe haven, and waterfowl magnet.

 

[Jeff]

Was able to do a little bit of video while Tammy was here this weekend. That chick likes to play in puddles...

Heavy Rain. Can it Fill a Pond? - YouTube

[Jeff]

Good job this year Justine. You to Cedar!



 

[Jeff]

Pretty good look at the pond excavation work and my self awarded award winning clover.

I'll probably never have another clover field as nice as this one. - YouTube

[thecfarm]

You will have woodchucks now.   :D   :(  
Seems kinda odd to see how flat it is there. 
I like how Cedar watches the drone.

[barbender]

Jeff will have steelhead running up to the pond from the big lake before we know it😁

[Jeff]

The name of that tune in that last video is called water slide.

[Jeff]

 

 

[thecfarm]

Now that's a picture!!!!

[beenthere]

Jeff is quite artistic, so maybe he painted that great pic. 

[SwampDonkey]

Excellent photo. I'd make one like that into a poster for back at home base. I've always found when using negatives for posters, they always came out dark. But that's a lot to do with the people developing it. Some are experts, and some just know how to develop film without a care about the results.

Even on an inexpensive printer, printing on photo paper, I find you have the brighten the image or it too darkens on print. I usually have to make a test run and adjust for the final print. Trouble with those types of photos off a printer is that the colors will fade in time. :

[Jeff]

I'm telling you guys, I do not know why, but walking down to the pond and seeing what it is becoming, brings me true joy. It's so close to what I envisioned, but better, and the better has nothing to do with me.

Yesterday something happened to my right foot. No idea what I did, but I can't hardly walk on it, but I can tell you, if I have to cut a crutch, I'll get down to that pond today. Yesterday a deer was snorting at cedar and I from behind the berm. Before the berm, any deer down there would have been long gone.


 

 

[Magicman]

That has become a beautiful place of solitude.

[Old Greenhorn]

I meant to post this the other day but lacked the time to word it thoughtfully.
 Jeff it has been no small pleasure in my recent life over the past year or so to watch another man about my age get the opportunity and have the drive to make his dream come true. 'being with you' in a manner of speaking while you worked through all the decisions going back to well before you sold the mustang, sharing your frustrations and the hundreds of tiny steps to get things in place and functioning has added joy (and sympathy) to my daily life. 
 But more than anything watching the results come together after all that work, frustration, problem solving, head scratching, leaky hoses, broken equipment, and all the other stuff is really something to behold and rejoice in for folks like me that can't get our act together no matter how close we get.
 I can't express how thankful I am that you brought us along for the ride, through all the ups and downs and shared the resulting joyful outcome.
 Good for you and Tammy, you have built something to bring you pleasure for years to come. That is a noble and worthy thing. Yeah, I know why you get joy out of a walk through and to what you have built, that was the goal, and you nailed it.

 Thanks for the ride and future things as they develop as we know they will. I can't wait until things green up in the spring, then it will REALLY pop!


P.S. I am so glad those 2 ponds have finally melded. That two-tone color thing was driving me nuts, but I tried not to say anything. All is good now, in fact, perfect I think. :D

[newoodguy78]

Jeff you've got a beautiful place there and should feel proud. The contentment in your posts about your work there is palpable. 
Your mention of pure joy when seeing it is something I totally understand. 
Of all the things I've built,worked on and problems I've solved, nothing is as satisfying as seeing a piece of land change and improve due to my efforts. Whether it's seeing crops improve or all of nature's little creatures thriving and doing their thing it's great to watch. 
The road to getting there is bumpy at times but it's always worth it. 
Great job. 

[Jeff]

Just a picture of the pond. Upside down.

 

 

[chet]

So is up actually down or is down really up? 

[Jeff]

I like it either way. Like an alternate universe. 

[Nebraska]

Beautiful Jeff, glad you got that picture.

[Magicman]

Yours has much more character than one I took a few years ago:


 Is this up or....


 
 Is it down??  

[newoodguy78]

Found myself twisting the phone upside down to try and figure out what way was up  :D
That picture is like a riddle with no words.

[doc henderson]

I think the bottom one is right side up!

[Magicman]

And you are upside down.  ;D

What you see as a bush in the lower right of the 2nd picture is actually an overhanging tree limb in the upper left of the 1st picture.  Also the blue in the sky is absorbed/not reflected true in the water reflection so it appears more pale.  The darker blue is actually the sky.