What I do in my spare time

[Smallpatch]

These Decorations took about three or four years . And since water I knew would  flow down the hill, the rest was easy. I bought a Montgomery Wards cement mixer in the early fifties and everything I do has been from trial and error.

  All the rocks are hand formed concrete over welded up forms using rebar and metal lathe. I have a large swimming pool pump with a good sized filter system.

   The curved 2 3/8" oil field pipe I had  curved for my over head light poles at the mini golf course at the go-cart track and paid for the pipe and his bending labor I exchanged for go -cart tickets.  I had some curved pipe left and brought them with me when we retired and used some on that stairway.

  The hair strainer for the pond I made using some wholly plastic the same as Lowes has over their garden area.

I have more good sized water falls but can't find the pictures and too lazy to go take more.

  The pump house is inside some rock formations that can't be found by folks looking things over or going in there and trying to hurt themselves. The big concrete door is built like everything else, so it stays hidden.

  Our land to the lake water is sloping to much to grow anything so a few terraces I told Bernadette was the answer. 

No drawn up plans . I did think I was going all the way to the waters edge with this kind of scenery but some high school buddies made me change my thoughts for they wanted use to go with them and travel america.. That made wife want to go motor home permanently. I sure am glad I won that argument...

 Sometimes Bernadette would fill the mixer with sand and gravel and the portland but I would empty the mixer in to the wheel barrow and do the rest.

  Lots of pvc lines and hydrants first then think all night long what I would try to do the next day..

  This time in my life was probably the most interesting thing I ever did so there was no work involved. The water comes out of the lake for a fee of 150 a year but it also is used on all the outside greenery.

[lew]

Beautiful landscaping, Jess!

[Grandpadave52]

You never cease to amaze me with your talents and creativity Patch.

[Gunny]

[Smallpatch]

Dave, I do want it known only me and my wife did all the labor with no plans. But one thing I have learned, my wife does everthing I do but then she has her own thing going. She was a traveling nurse after we retired and did her stained glass at night and kept the house perfect and did all the cooking...Most of the time I can't find her to pat her on the back......but also I have started doing the dishes and forgetting to take my shoes off sometimes when I come in to the house

[Cal]

A little bit of heaven right there Jess, love it

[Smallpatch]

Cal, you been getting wet lately..I heard a little rain storm went through your neighbor hood here while back..

  We had some hot weather all summer but not near as bad a Phoenix where the temp was over 100 for 100 days without dropping under 100 except  for a few nights...... 

  I am trying to let it be known our area is almost that bad so these people coming across the border don't want to stop here.