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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1338dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Harvey Lacey</B></FONT><B>   |   </B><A HREF="public_html.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Harvey Lacey"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>back to  </B><A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Keeping character, or restoring a pond "><U><B>Keeping character, or restoring a pond </B></U></A><B> |  </B><A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Whats New"><U><B>What's New</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1338dfc3.jpg"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="651" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="ROWS" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pond Part 3"><U>Click here to go back to Page 4 of Keeping character, or restoring a pond</U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c1580e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 169 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="169" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="642"><div> The job site picked up an inch and a half over the weekend.</div> <bR> <div> Then this afternoon one of those scattered showers Bird talked about laid down another inch and a half in twenty minutes.</div> <bR> <div> This morning I had to go down first with the excavator (mini-hoe) and scrape off a couple of inches of goo before the skid steer could be allowed in the basin.</div> <bR> <div> It was a bugger bear, good day before the rain hit, but a bugger bear. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c1680e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="38" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="642"><div> Saturday I went by Pearson Stone and grabbed some slabs for a staircase that I'm going to do above the wall going over to the north side pathway. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c1780e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="38" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="642"><div> Here's where they are going to go. These two were just put there for a test fit. They're not placed. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c1b80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 95 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="95" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="642"><div> The rippley look on the pond is the rain starting. After taking the help home I came by and it was big mud hole.</div> <bR> <div> Oh well, we only have a forty percent chance of rain tomorrow. That means we have a sixty percent chance of it not raining, not bad odds in my book. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c1880e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Sunday I got away from this job and worked out some frustration on some straight pipe. </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c1980e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 56 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="56" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="642"><div> I'm building a twenty five foot pipe sliding gate.</div> <bR> <div> We don't want it to look like anyone else's.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 ><NOBR><div>  <A NAME="08_10_05"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c1c80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 95 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="95" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="642"><div> Since it was too wet yesterday to work in the pond we moved all the equipment out from under the carport. Then we used the mini-hoe to scratch the base fill. Customer had mentioned he wanted to concrete the area if we had the chance.</div> <bR> <div> Opportunity knocked. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c1d80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 75 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="75" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="642"><div> That's a fifteen by thirty slab. We've got seventeen or eighteen mixer loads to do this morning to complete the pour.</div> <bR> <div> We put the base we removed to good use.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c1e80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 56 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="56" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="642"><div> That allowed me to get in and out of the pond in the afternoon.</div> <bR> <div> I got to play with the rock stairs a bit. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 56 ><NOBR><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="56" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="-2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="08 11 05"><U>Contunue to next page</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id82.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="09 13 05"><U>Click here to go back to Page 1 of Keeping character, or restoring a pond</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id82.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="09 13 05"><U>Back to What's New</U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>