Water Gardening: Moving pond to new location, 1 by Dinu

Dinu wrote:
Mmmmmmmmmm, thanks for all the praises, if not prizes. LOL. I'm glad someone else is enjoying half way round the earth, the work done here, with bare hands, to tell you the fact. Gardenwife says "engineer"..... "artist". I think I must agree. Because my mind is like that and my hands do the work. I enjoy doing things myself. Since we have no climate extremes, we get to stay out all round the year, barring when it rains. Even then, I'm out [when I'm home] with an umbrella looking where water flows down through the downspouts [I've also a rainwater harvesting system done - an article was posted recently], to see where it stagnate.. or just to hear rain! But not when there is lightning.

My great grandfather built this house in 1911 on a vacant land. We cannot think of houses on 'acres' of land! Even a square foot is hard to get. All occupied by houses with little space betwixt the neighbours! We are fortunate to have some soil to dig around. I'll tell how the situation is in a separate thread when I support it with proper pictures to explain. Ponding too cannot be thought of by others! All such vacant land in the premise is used for building and renting it out - for more income! Trees, plants.. have no meaning to many people. But money.

Coming back to the house -- 1911 I said. In 1950, the family moved out after renting to a house nearby. So many of those millstones were probably taken there. When I came to live here [after the same tenant left in 1997] in my ancestral property, I brought all of them, one by one on my scooter!! My mother was still living there in that other house where my gardening began. So that is how the stones never left us! So were many old things. There was enough space to stock them up in attics or shelves, despite being 'used-less' [not completely useless]. Now that I have [with the family partition] less space inside to hold all the things, I gave some for charity.

That is not bamboo - they are leaves of my oleander plant. I love bamboo too, but I've not much space for that.

tt and WG,
You look at every inch of my pictures.. some others visiting here do the same, live. Pictures capture just what the camera does, but visitors have many such things to see! You are welcome too!

Here is what it looked like this afternoon [from the room above]......but the whole scenario went a step back by sundown. I had to raise the level of the ground by a couple of inches to keep rainwater at bay because the ground level around it did not match my idea. So I've taken all those stones out, lifted the liner, put in more dirt [by wetting it so that it stays in the desired shape]. The work will be completed tomorrow morning. Got bitten by red ants that had its nest beneath one portion.. ooouch.

Dinu