Dinu~ funny and clever. So pretty, too.
Moving pond to new location
Wouldn't it be nice if we had a device like in the movie "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and could enlarge and shrink items at will? We could eliminate garages and just store our cars on a shelf at the end of the day. We'd need so little closet space. We could start seedlings, then shrink the trays to the size of matchbooks and conserve water while the plants matured, then enlarge them again just in time for planting. Just think of the possibilities.
Get to work on that invention, Dinu! You've got the engineer's mind for it! :)
Yea, gardenwife, I had seen that movie too, many years back. We used to get thrilled with the nice settings and photography effects. But not now... these computers have spoiled the fun in stunt movies..... but my shot is real! Even during the time of Laurel & Hardy, they had imagined that and I forgot that movie name.
Now you have me curious as to what movie that is! I looked a little on http://imdb.com , but haven't narrowed it down quite yet. I did, however, find this fun video. Someone put modern music along with a clip from Way Out West; he said he did no editing, but it came together just as shown. How funny! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL3mHPmNKRE
http://www.laurelandhardyforum.com/forum/index.php I tried to search for the film name but in vain. The pair was indeed very funny and they are my lifetime heroes, besides Charlie Chaplin. I'm a great fan. Sorry for being a bit off subject of this thread.
View from my room window.
Very peaceful. You have done a great job.
What a beautiful view! The best view of our pond is from the bathroom. LOL
What a lovely view! It's looking great out there :-).
LOL gardenwife.
Oh yes, I've begun to thoroughly enjoy and the place is attracting my family too now. Earlier location did not, to this extent. Here is how I fill water to the pond when the level decreases. I think it was gardenwife who told me some years back to bring water down with some force. I'm adding direct river water supply.
Very beautiful and clever, Dinu.
Hap
I like your copper tubing bubbler. Here's a list of L & H films. http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/5352/movielist.html
I think there is a forum there that you can post your questions on.
My mother has original footage of a lot of the old movies as well as cartoons. She worked for the CEO of a camera company called Revere Camera Company. She met (and dated a few stars) a lot of famous people and even babysat for a drugged out famous female star who basically dumped her kid off with a secretary she didn't know and three days later had a staff member retrace her steps to find her kid. My Mom's boss was a professional and nice guy and was married to the actress who played "Glinda" the Good Witch in the Wizard of OZ. My Mom said she was a very classy smart women.
My Mom always had a lot of bizarre stories that were hardly believable when I was a kid but all have panned out. I remember my Mom talking to her friends about Rock Hudson being gay and no one believed her. Even arguments came from it. Stories of abuse, drugs and alcohol and orgies were very shocking in the 50's and 60's to my mother's peer group. She stopped telling her stories a long time ago but she has some amazing films of herself with countless movie stars and pictures and tons of weird stories. She also has original clips from Disney and a ton of silent movies. She never preserved them so I am guessing they are damaged. I remember watching homemade movies with Dean Martin (very quiet and also sad) and a very ADHD Jerry Lewis (my mom hated him so much-he was a pig she said). I seem recall my mother saying that one of the Laurel and Hardy men had a serious drinking problem but I may be wrong-is there any history of that?Anyways, Mom is nearly 80 now. She had a crazy and exciting life for a foreign born-very religious girl!
Sorry off subject but some stories can't be contained inside me! LOl!
Don't worry about it. That all was very interesting to read.
Hap
Have you gotten your Mom to tell her stories into a tape player. You and your kids and grandkids would treasure them in later years. Your Mom should have written a book. LOL
My Mom has started writing a few different books in her lifetime (she did a lot of interesting things and experienced a lot of weird things). Does anyone know that mass murderer from the Chicago area named John Gacy? Well, my Mom and Dad knew him and my Mom was always suspicious of him and his intentions and she definitely challenged him. My Mom usually didn't fight with anyone, but this man was involved with my elder brothers Boy Scout Troop yet he had no sons. My mother called him a freak, a pervert amongest other things and had literal screaming matches with him causing my father then to fight with her at home because she "attacked such a good christian man". I remember cringing as a 5 year old at the scouts functions if he was there. Fast forward 10-15 years and he was found to have murdered 30 young men and boys and buried them in his crawl space and was suspected of man more. . . I guess my Mom was intuitive.
Yikes!
Wow, that is so interesting, Mothermole - all of it. Even if your mom has that stuff written down, having recordings for your family would be wonderful. We have recordings my grandfather did after grandma died; he was an English teacher for years and then a textbook editor, so he read his favorite prose and poems, commenting on them. I need to convert them to MP3 files.
If they had only known that Mother knows best!!! If anyone had listened to her some body's life may have been saved. Had he targeted anyone from your brother's troop? Likely to afraid of your Mom.
Not that we know about. The guy was everywhere and if there was a big event in the community he always volunteered to be the clown and was in all the local papers. My little sisters (being adored little identical twins with hair down to their waist) had many pictures taken with him as the clown that my mom saved. Creepy. The way this guy got caught was by another neighbor of ours (John Gacy lived miles away). This guy was altra cool and sexy (I was a little kid but always thought him to be sooooo cool and tons of girls hung around his house . . .). He wore black a lot, was a kind young guy with good looks and black hair-always nice to the little kids in the neighborhood and rode a motorcycle and had an old Pontiac Camero. Anyway, Gacy met him and tried to drug him and handcuff him (his usual mode) but the kid was a football and a wrestling champ that was able to pull his joints out of the socket (flexiable) and get the cuffs in front of him and nearly killed Gacy by strangling him. This was the one kid who managed to escaped and turned him in to the police. Unfortunately, about 1-2 years later he died in a plane crash that he was piloting (yeah, he had one of those too . . .).
Gacy was married and before all this came out she left him and divorced him and eventually married our plumber (strange). She had terrible nervous twitches in her face. After it all was found out the twitches were even worse. She told my parents and we kids were there at the time that she used to be suspicious of her ex husband all the time and that there were all these horrible smells in the house that she just couldn't get rid of. It was the decaying bodies in their crawl space.
Gacy was put to death some time ago. His house was torn down and another put in it's place.
It is hard to fathom how much pain one person can inflict upon the world. There are the really big ones such as Hitler and Saddam. Then there are the "smaller" scale ones like Gacy and Dahmer. Inflicting pain on just one person is too much so we must all be aware of our actions. For it is so true that "No man is an island."
Living with such a stigma must have robbed his ex wife of nearly all the pleasure and normalcy of her later life. I can not even imagine. I do imagine she must have had tons of anger to deal with. It is amazing she was able to trust enough to remarry. I guess that is a statement to her strength.
Your Mom sure led an interesting life. Such memories.
Dinu....I hope you will take some more pictures of your beautiful cration...enjoying seeing it....very good job..
smiles..Diana
Yes, Diana, surely will post more pix. I'm growing 4 lotus seeds and 2 or 3 of them will be placed in the pond. So that will be an added attraction.
Dinu ☼
Oh how nice.....wowow that reminds me I have some lotus seed too......I had forgotten about it...it is the small kind...can grow in a bowl...lol...have to get them out and start them..I can not wait to see yours...lol....happy day...
smiles...Diana...
Diana, let's compete with the lotuses. Whose blooms quicker? C'mon get started! I'm a week old now in lotus growing.
Recent shot of the pond looking down my entire west yard.
Dinu☼
Diana, let's compete with the lotuses. Whose blooms quicker? C'mon get started! I'm a week old now in lotus growing.
Recent shot of the pond looking down my entire west yard.
Dinu☼
That certainly is picture perfect, Dinu.
Hap
Dinu
I want to come and sit in your yard! It looks so nice.
I love the walkway you have on the right side of your house too. It all looks so peaceful and serene!
Carolyn
Thanks Hap and Carolyn. Yea, it looks peaceful in a still picture, but there is always some background noise close by from the traffic. But once you are engrossed in the garden looking at something, the ears can filter that noise, right? That is the granite stones for pavement and I've used all the slabs available in the premises. Even benches are of that.
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The sound of moving water would alsohelp to cover the traffic noises. Maybe a waterfall into your beautiful pond.
Lovely, Dinu! It's really looking great out there!
Wow...that is beautiful...Dinu....everything about it just charming...I too could set...and watch...everything around your plantings...
I would love to take your challenge, but I will have to do it inside..it is still very cold here...I hope I can find a sunny place...hahaha..I am sure...you win out..hahah but that is great...
I will plant it tomorrow...get it started...
heheh so fun...smiles.Diana...
Good Luck Diana! Here is the sun for you ☼ . May he help you out! In fact, I'll not use extra fertilizers and so you may stand a chance to win! I'm looking for tips now for planting in another thread and so I'm a complete novice!
Dinu ☼
What a great pond! I especially love the millstones and courtyard setting. I dream of having a courtyard pond someday:)
"Courtyard pond"! Do I have that? I'm not into planning into themes much nor do I know much about them. I just do what strikes my mind and what things are available with me. But it is becoming a much lovable place! One rainy season will make the view much greener and am I longing for that! I'm still looking for a couple of bog plants. May be a canna or an elephant ear, bulrush or some type of grass. I'll see what I can get. I have put in a couple of water lettuce that is multiplying and also hyacinth that is spreading - will check it from overwhelming the surface.
Yes, Dinu, both of those can not be sold here in Florida. They are pretty.
Hap
Dinu~the pond project was well worth the effort; it's beautiful.
View sitting on the stone bench, leaning my back to the wall. Top left corner, entry gate, top right corner, entry door - just out of pic.
A gorgeous area for quiet time; Very nice, Dinu..
When are you coming to do mine, Dinu?
Hap
Hap,
When He sends me, I'll be there, in full person! Here is another angle shot, from a lower level.
