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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> </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="652" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="ROWS" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c4680e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 75 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="75" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> I really didn't like the way the new big rock stairs turned out. So Saturday we removed them and started all over again, same 'cept different.</div> <bR> <div> This is the old way. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c3980e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 56 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="56" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> There is a water tight pool light in the curb below the overhang.</div> <bR> <div> This is what it looked like after we pulled the forms and dressed it up a bit. </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c4780e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 56 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="56" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> Here's the new way.</div> <bR> <div> It wasn't easy. But then, it wasn't hard either. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c3a80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> As you can see we doubled the surface area of the walkway</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c3b80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> As you can see we needed all the surface area we could beg, borrow, or steal. </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c3c80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 75 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="75" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> All this so we could have a sandstone slab walkway from the old wall to the old path.</div> <bR> <div> We slid these into place the last thing this evening. We have to do some moving and mortaring. But that's just part of it. And we wanted to see what it was going to look like. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c3d80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="38" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> Yesterday we finally got to pour the footer for the section of wall where the old access was located. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c3e80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> So today we got the twelve inch blocks laid. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c3f80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 75 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="75" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> Here's a shot of the completed underneath view.</div> <bR> <div> Well, almost completed. We're going to powerwash everything when we're done so all the rocks will start aging in place together. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c4080e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Today we started the curb or transition from vertical to horizontal along the rest of the old wall.</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c4180e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 226 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="226" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> The white line on the wall is the static water line. The rebar framework is the start of a walkway into the pond from a sitting area that will be at water's edge starting at the old column that ends the wall.</div> <bR> <div> We want to have a way for peoples and or pets to get out of the pond.</div> <bR> <div> The walkway will be built with the same principles as the overhang support for the big rock walkway.</div> <bR> <div> It will be interesting to do.</div> <bR> <div> I like interesting as much as I like doing. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c4280e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> I also got in some mini-hoe time preparing the way for the north wall's migration to the east. </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c4380e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 75 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="75" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> And yes, on Sunday I got to tweak pipe. This gate will be a slider. It's twenty six feet long and will have a peak or two of about seven feet when I'm done. It'll also have horse wire on it.</div> <bR> <div> Different customer, same craziness. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c4880e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 169 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="169" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> Tuesday and Wednesday we were out of town. One of my brother in laws passed away and we attended his funeral.</div> <bR> <div> So today was our first day back since Monday. It was a good day.</div> <bR> <div> We formed up the pathway that's going to run along the south end of the existing wall. If you click on the link I replied to you will see the area as we left it Monday.</div> <bR> <div> This is what it looked like tonight when we left it. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c4a80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 113 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="113" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> Yes.</div> <bR> <div> Those are four of the five piers that will be holding the floating boulders.</div> <bR> <div> Sixteen inch hole nine feet deep with half of a yard of concrete to get it to the level where we can route the tubing and conduit for boulder enhancing one oh one</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c4b80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 264 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="264" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> I'm not sure how this picture will download. I hope it's clear enough for those interested to see how we're installing the flat boulders into the concrete.</div> <bR> <div> First we drill the boulder and epoxy in a piece of rebar. Then we tie the rebar to the rebar grid that reinforces the concrete.</div> <bR> <div> Next we lay dense foam against the boulder and then put a masonite fibreboard to act as the form for the concrete.</div> <bR> <div> We follow that with stuff like little rocks and sand to further form the foam around the rock. This saves us time and effort cleaning up when we remove the forms and it means less detail work with the mortar work afterwards too.</div> <bR> <div> I know. Pros would do it different. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c4c80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 358 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="358" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> Probably one of the most rewarding things about this kind of work is watching one of my ideas become the property of someone who takes it further and better than I ever could.</div> <bR> <div> This is a classic example of what I'm talking about.</div> <bR> <div> Vicente is a day laborer, forty nine years old. He started with us on this job as just a day laborer. It turns out he's done a lot of concrete and masonary work in his life.</div> <bR> <div> It's the nature of these kinds of workplace for expertise to be downplayed in these situations. But I think a little of my enthusiasm and the challenge of the job got him down where it feels good. He's having more fun than a pup with two tails on a sunny day taking my concepts and turning them into works of art.</div> <bR> <div> I'm having as much fun watching him have fun as I am seeing things happen the way I think they could most likely.</div> <bR> <div> I showed him once basically what I wanted. Then I got out of his way.</div> <bR> <div> Sharing the fun is all about sharing fun. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c4e80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Tomorrow is today. It happens all the time. Keeps it all interesting if you know what I mean. </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="640" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 57 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="57" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> The Halite or cinder blocks are at their final height on the south wall. These are the eight by sixteens standing on top of the twelve by sixteens. We'll be putting flat boulders on these as a decorative touch for about two feet below the water level and up. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c5080e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 113 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="113" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="640"><div> Today I started the trenching for the conduits to the columns for the floating boulders and to the lights in the wall.</div> <bR> <div> Hopefully tomorrow we'll have the trenching complete, the conduit ran, and backfilled.</div> <bR> <div> Monday we'll start pouring the floor of the pond that will have a concrete floor. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 87 WIDTH="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="87" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><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= 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="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="08 21 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> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>