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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1338dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Harvey Lacey</B></FONT><B>   |   </B><A HREF="public_html.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Harvey Lacey"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>back to  </B><A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Keeping character, or restoring a pond "><U><B>Keeping character, or restoring a pond </B></U></A><B> |  </B><A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Whats New"><U><B>What's New</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1338dfc3.jpg"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="726" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="ROWS" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d1680e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 132 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="132" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> My wife and a friend mentioned there were some stones shaped like valentines in the baskets of rocks. Then she mentioned that we'd installed one of the valentines upside down in the north side wall.</div> <bR> <div> But the guys get credit for the rock placement. It would be nice to have the time to put each rock in place. But I don't have it.</div> <bR> <div> We got one of the floating boulders in place the other day. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d1780e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 207 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="207" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> I left the house this morning at six thirty, my usual time, and I got home after eight, usual time.</div> <bR> <div> But we had a good day.</div> <bR> <div> Four of the five floating boulders are up.</div> <bR> <div> Here's three of them. They appear a dull grey. In reality they're salt and pepper with salmon streaks and pieces of crystal.</div> <bR> <div> I've tried to arrange them where from one side of the pond they all appear to be grey with a little pink. And from the other they've got a lot more pink and some white streaks. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 487 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="487" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d1880e10.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="481" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 131 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="131" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Yesterday morning I removed the access ramp we've used for so long.</div> <bR> <div> After grading in a terrace we placed block and a beam for the back wall.</div> <bR> <div> This morning we laid the block and this afternoon we covered it with the flat river rocks.</div> <bR> <div> Except for the ladders scattered about you'd never know we once had it any other way. </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 487 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="487" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d1980e10.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="481" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 170 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="170" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> The client installed the fighting stream fountains in the new deck today.</div> <bR> <div> What we're doing is using a pvc form around the access box. We'll use weak mortar mix inside the form in the concrete slab and where it comes up through the flagstone deck. This will make repairs much less complicated. Hopefully it won't be needed. But if the need ever arises a screwdriver and a small hammer will remove the mortar the access box will be free and there will be more room for doing a repair.</div> <bR> <div> And yes, there will be another deck behind this one.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 487 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="487" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d1a80e10.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="481" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 113 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="113" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> Installing the boulders isn't really that big a thing.</div> <bR> <div> When we placed the columns we put in conduit for pulling a water line. We also made three quarter inch rebar an integral part of the column.</div> <bR> <div> This is what a column looks like ready for prom night. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 487 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="487" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d1b80e10.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="481" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Then I make a pattern of the rebar pins and their location relative to the conduit and water line. </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 487 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="487" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d1c80e10.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="481" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 378 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="378" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> I decide where I want the fountain head to be located in the boulder. I then drill a three quarter inch hole from that point through the stone. (I have a Hilti three foot long three quarter inch masonary bit. You too can have one for only two hundred plus with thirty one a percent discount)</div> <bR> <div> I follow the three quarter hole with a one inch from each end, hopefully meeting in the middle. That's followed with a one and a half inch, again, meeting in the middle so I have a one and a half inch hole clean clear through.</div> <bR> <div> I drill ten to twelve seven sixteenths holes about three inches deep in a circle around the one and half inch hole on top of the rock. After I've broken these holes into the one and a half inch hole I follow that with a three inch diamond bit on a small angle grinder. It's a little tricky using a grinding wheel for boring but it works.</div> <bR> <div> I then turn the rock over and using the pattern drill one inch holes for the rebar pins.</div> <bR> <div> Then it's a simple matter of lifting up the stone (eight to twelve hundred pounds). Feed the water line through the big hole and line up the rebar pins with their corresponding holes.</div> <bR> <div> Set the puppy in place and then mortar it in even though the mortar is more about looks than strength. The pins are what will keep it there until the boulders learn how to float. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 485 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="485" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d1d80df0.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="479" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 56 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="56" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> Today we got all the floating boulders plumbed and wired.</div> <bR> <div> They are ready to rumble with Mother Nature. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d1e80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> Here's a shot from the other side of the pond. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d1f80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 188 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="188" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> I have a saying that I use quite often. It's, "I'd rather be lucky than good, anyone can be good. That only takes effort."</div> <bR> <div> I suspect it sounds like I'm pulling for a compliment. When in fact it's an admittance of being more lucky than good.</div> <bR> <div> These rocks are a classic example of being lucky. When I picked them out of the pile they were covered with dust and dirt and had no signs of outstanding color variation.</div> <bR> <div> But look at this puppy and tell me she isn't the prettiest thing you ever saw. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2080e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 75 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="75" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> We also got the deck poured for the flagstone terrace on the southside.</div> <bR> <div> There will be another level of terrace above this one. First we put down concrete, then we lay the flagstone. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 487 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="487" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2180e10.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="481" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 75 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="75" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> And no, the job isn't done. </div> <bR> <div> But one of the last things we did last week was concrete in the old space between the greenhouse and the old wall. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 487 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="487" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2280e10.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="481" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> As you can see, we use entirely too much concrete.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 487 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="487" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2380e10.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="481" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 170 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="170" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> We started the pour after five. It was over seven yards. We finished up by tractor lights.</div> <bR> <div> If you want to have fun run over your new cell phone. I wasn't sure if I had insurance and I didn't want to wait until Wednesday or so for them to mail me a new one. It took six stops and more patience than I'll ever have to finally find a </div> <div> cingular vendor who would just sell me a phone. I'm glad the new ones have those sims cards where you just swap the card into the new phone and you're back in the world.</div> <bR> <div> It was a hundred and forty dollars. That's only two tanks of diesel in my truck. A bargain. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2480e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 95 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="95" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> I know it seems a little lite in the britches for such a stretch but that Takeuchi with only sixteen horsepower does a fine job of transfering road tailings up and over the wall to become topsoil fill.</div> <bR> <div> It is a fine tractor. It'll do a lot more than you'd think and moving it over uneven terrain is better than a shot in the dark for your blood pressure. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2580e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 75 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="75" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> We got the third level of the tri-deckta poured this morning and laid the line of block behind it this afternoon.</div> <bR> <div> As you can see it's coming right along. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2680e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 113 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="113" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> That area of the pond is getting real busy these days. </div> <bR> <div> We're still waiting on the coping stone to come in. And I'm still moving pond bottom dirt up to become topsoil.</div> <bR> <div> We'll have more pictures tomorrow. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2780e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> The guys are like ants on a slow June bug. It's coming together. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2880e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> The tri-deckta makes the floating boulders look real small. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2980e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="38" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> If you're a pond dweller and you come up for a peek at the above world you might see someone in the evening sitting here smiling back at you. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 680 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="680" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> Today will be my last day of work on the pond project for almost a month. Hopefully when I get back from my vacation the pond will be full of water and I won't have to be running on imagination to finish out all the details.</div> <bR> <div> The excavator will go back to Nation's Rent this afternoon. All the power tools will be secured. And hopefully we'll have the place to a point where Mother Nature can do her part and contribute almost one and a half million gallons of water so we can have a real deal pond.</div> <bR> <div> This has been as much fun as anything I've done. Probably what's been as good from my perspective as the creative process for me was watching it work in those working with me. </div> <bR> <div> I'm as proud of our relationships as I am of the pond.</div> <bR> <div> Every day has been easy to embrace because I knew there wouldn't be the conflicts one often finds in the workplace. The biggest reason for that I feel is good fortune. We got the right mix of personalities without having to weed out many who didn't fit.</div> <bR> <div> A couple of the guys presented difficulties fitting them into the mix. But I believe most of that was their expectations of conflict based upon their own past experiences. When they realized that wasn't going to happen this time they relaxed and enjoyed themselves too.</div> <bR> <div> There were some moments though. Like when the mixer came over because one of the guys made a mistake. When the barrel hit it locked up just for an instant. The nine horse Honda gear reduction motor didn't lock up. The chain drive didn't break either. So block of the motor separated where it bolted down to the mixer housing. But an hour later we were back up and running with a new motor.</div> <bR> <div> It was an expensive "oops". And the guy who made the mistake knew he'd lost his job by his reactions. But I believe my treating it like it was just a thing made the whole crew relax a bit because they knew they could make a mistake and it wouldn't be the end of the world. </div> <bR> <div> There were some people eliminated of course. And not necessarily because they were bad or not good workers. It was because they didn't fit in this particular mix. Under different circumstances with a different mix of people they'd been the aces maybe. So their elimination was less about them and more about the group.</div> <bR> <div> It's been fun</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2a80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 75 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="75" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> Hmmmmm, let's get back on topic. Blue and orange fish, you'd think this was a cafe stuck between two tractor dealerships.</div> <bR> <div> Here's a shot taken in July this year. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2b80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="38" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> That was about day two of week one. This was taken yesterday from the same vantage point, fourteen weeks later. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2c80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> Here we are about week two taken from the old wood deck. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 486 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="486" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2d80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Same point approximately but from the new rock deck and taken this week. </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 485 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="485" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d2e80df0.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="479" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><div> The way it was. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="38" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Keeping character, or restoring a pond "><U>Click here to go back to Page 1 of Keeping character, or restoring a pond</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Whats New"><U>Back to What's New</U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="713"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="713" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>