Work on the pond expansion is moving along quite swimmingly. I spend a couple hours a day alternating between lugging rocks and digging and hauling dirt. Some of the extra dirt is becoming a hill, which is where the new waterfall will cascade down from (I did mention that I'm overdoing it, right?), which is reinforced by large boulders brought in from the woods. The rest of the dirt is going into these large rock thingies I started making during the last project, which involved digging up tons of rocks from the lawn's edge. The new rock things, let's call them planters, encircle a couple of trees and will be filled with dirt and nice plants.

Here in New England every project involves rocks: getting them out of the way or using them for decoration.

So the last thing I need is another project. Closely studying the photo above you'll note a rather large, multi-colored strand of electrical wiring seemingly come out of the old pond. It's not. Coming from the old pond, that is. It's the 240vac line from our well pump and it runs underground another 30 feet or so. Near as I can tell pump wire isn't supposed to just run naked through the soil like this, especially a mere foot or so below the surface. There should be protection. There should be a conduit. There should be a different route that doesn't have emminent domain through my pond project.

For now I'll mostly ignore the high voltage cable and concentrate on getting the pond perimeter dug. In the next week or so the fish or going to be needing a babysitter so I can drain the old pond and dismantle it. Anyone have an old wading pool or watering trough they can live in? A small pond would be great too.

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