Winter Pond Building

This heron feeds at our pond daily

Brrrrr...........14degrees this morning and I have a small crew working on Lake Gage, very unusual.  This time of year I am normally south but hubby has to have surgery so we are hanging north until cutting and recovery.  We have opportunity to work so the men are doing some tear out for a project that will be in the remodel showcase this spring.

Getting Started

The project is very exciting, we are going to build a magnificent water feature that will have two waterfalls separated by a winding staircase.  One large, deep pond at the top of the hill will fill the ponds and provide winter shelter for the homeowners prized koi.  The broad sense of the project is defined but choice of materials and exact lay out is being fine tuned.

Jeremy & Tom from Designing Innovations

The homeowners are long time friends, business associates and customers, we have worked on several projects together and this new pond is part of the complete renovation of the homes lakeside exterior.  The new custom deck is being constructed by Designing Innovations, Roger and his men love to work with the hottest trends and styles and this project will feature a second story travertine deck, bar and grill.

Using drive on boards to keep yard nice

All will be completed by the first of May so getting a jump on it before our busiest time of year is wonderful.

Stairs Off & Landscaping Out

Old water feature and Koi pond

Happy New Year, 2013

The holidays have filled the last month and I have had little adventure to report, I drove uneventfully from Cape Coral, FL to home mid December and have been with family and friends celebrating the season since that time.  Our last worker finished up the week before Christmas and I helped with some of the end of season clean up, we still have some to do but have accomplished a lot.

Cardinal

One of my Christmas gifts was a new Cannon SX50HS camera from husband Bruce.  I am working on learning the proper use of the camera, it does a lot of tricks zooming to 50x and having wide angle capability, a swell machine.  I hope to supply the blog with lots of sharp new images as I develop my skills.

Coach Painter and players during time out

Notice the gray haired bald tuba player?

One of the great new features is continuous/automatic picture taking, for example at a sporting event I can set the camera and shoot in rapid succession catching all the action.  I recently employed this at the Purdue vs. William and Mary basketball game this past Saturday.  My husband and I are both Purdue alumni and still enjoy visiting campus for various events.  We have several college chums who actually live in the area and we all get together both on campus and off.  It was great visiting with friends and lots of fun playing with the new features of my camera trying to shoot the game.

No mistakes here

I took several hundred shots and got maybe three that were decent, I have greater respect for sports photographers now.  Keeping the winter bird feeders full gives me some great subjects as well.

Purdue won despite this missed dunk