Watching and Waiting

We spent most of yesterday watching the fellows from Knee Deep Ponds hard at work.

It was so interesting to see how they placed the plants in little rock pockets and hid the underwater lights with strategically placed rocks.

The Aquascape system they use has a skimmer at one end of the pool and a pump in a waterfall at the other end, and we watched them being installed.

Then they got ready to start filling the pond with water, siphoning off the water they had collected and dechlorinated in the big plastic 100 gallon tubs.

And the pond started to fill!

It was quite dramatic when the waterfall began to work. And quite loud! But then Matt cleverly arranged the stones so the water ran more smoothly and the resulting sound is properly soothing.

If all that wasn't enough for one day, we then drove down to the big ponds where the company breeds koi and picked out several beautiful fish that will be put in the pond on Monday, when the guys come back to finish off the flagstone around the pond and construct the bridge.

After such an exciting day it was wonderful to come home to a peaceful pond and soothing waterfall and watch the underwater lights come on as the sun set.