Month: August 2021

The pond is done. Let the tranquility begin. There are a few odds and ends to finish up. At least one more bucket of rocks should be cleaned. And I need to find some parts for the hammock (not sure where they went during winterization…but what I did find...

More pebble cleaning today. After about 5 hours of that, I decided to see how much new stones would cost at Home Depot. When I realized it was only $4/bag, I made a trip. I will probably clean one more bin of old stones (good exercise) and head out...

While I am mid-project, I figured I would attempt to document my efforts to rebuild/restore the koi pond in our yard. Today, I spent a lot of time cleaning pebbles. I did some googling and came across this video: https://youtu.be/flwWZ1qmKxA that suggested screening the stones with “hardware cloth”. To...

I have been tying to find a way to manage our ever increasing collection of photos and videos. When I was the primary photographer, I had a pretty streamlined process that involved copying photos to my laptop, sorting them with Picasa and Polyview. These photos were moved into folders...