on Friday I wrote the email that had been sitting waiting for me to make a decision about…

I had been asked to provide a reference to the people who built my new pond…

pump out…

the pond is still leaking and I finally took the pump out of the water as I didn’t want it to freeze…

wasn’t sure how to respond to this request, so spent nearly a month thinking about it… finally wrote to the owner mentioning the things that hadn’t gone well, beside the fact that the pond was still leaking…

I copied the person who had sent the reference request, as well as the person who has been trying diligently to fix the leak…

both the owner and the worker were back in touch with me in about half an hour and we set up a meeting…

this afternoon I met with the owner and the person who has been doing most of the work trying to sort out the leakiness…

area where swail will be built…

they plan to put a swail in so that rain water will run toward the cedar and away from the pond… they will over seed the low spots and put in additional pieces of slate if necessary to make sure the path is flat… they are coming tomorrow to get this done…

waterfall in pieces…

they are hoping to re-position the waterfall and add water tomorrow and check the leak… if they can’t do proper testing because of the cold, they will come back in the spring to open the pond and make sure the fix has worked…

I am feeling much more hopeful and sorry that I wasn’t in touch with them sooner so the weather would have been better for them to get the work done… that water is very cold, and quite hard in some places…

this pond is supposed to be a bit of a memorial to my beloved… I will be happy when it is fixed…