On this trip, I seeded the rest of the dam, including the downhill side. There has not been much rain since the earlier seeding and I don’t see much germination yet. As the driveway is still pretty well rutted and still not dry enough to work, I spent much of my time trimming small shrubs [...]
This visit is primarily to check the new dam and pond before making the final payment. The pond is one week old at this point and there is about six feet of water – mostly due to the heavy rains last week. Surprisingly, there are signs of life already. There are small tadpoles, dragon flies, [...]
The pond construction started on June 30. We had good weather until Thursday, July 3. Strong rains started at about 2:00pm. So the work could not progress. At this point, only finishing the sod overflow, connecting the water source stream, and adding an additional 5 inches to the north end of the dam was needed. [...]
