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Davy Mac posted:

Hi Rail, cheers,   really nice lookin stonework on your pond. I look forward to seein your railway in future. Certainly don't count myself a stone mason, I just stick stones together with cement  . Good fun though.  I sincerely hope we've seen the last of this winter's snow , just need sunshine 

Thanks Davy Mac, the wall was key to the pond and workshop. It extends down to below the pond bottom and serves as the back wall, as well as the support wall for the shop's second floor overhang, and the retaining wall for the patio behind it. It is made to look like dry stacked stone, but the mortar is recessed to give that appearance. Some refer to this technique as "Ghost Joints"

Your stone work is certainly worthy of recognition, as is you ground work technique of embedding wood into concrete. I am considering using composite decking material. I have used it a edging for my brick paver walkway, and it has held up well, except for a section the lifted due to roots from a maple tree that has since been removed due to disease. 

Don

Seacoast posted:

Davy always fun to check on your "hardscape" If do anything outside it will be "pale" in comparasion with my G scale.

Rail I like your Koi!

George,

My son got the Koi from a woman he did some work for a few years ago. Some neighborhood hoodlums were throwing rocks at her fish, so she decided to eliminate the pond instead of the problem. She gave the fish to my son, as he told her we had a pond large enough to sustain the fish. We lost one this past winter. We're not sure if it was old age or some other reason. The pond is deep enough to not freeze solid, and we do use a heater in extreme cold temps. 

Don

Hi Don,thanks for the thumbs up on my stonework efforts. Suppose I do alright for an amateur. Theres a proper stone mason just did a job for an aquaintance of mine nearby,superb workmanship,just like your own. Beautifull work.  As for the fish, Koi are nice but expensive and there are a lot of Heron in this area and aren't shy about visiting the tiniest pond in the most built up urbun area for a feed either. So I generally stick to goldfish.  Lot of domestic cats around here too .  I used to keep native river minnows and sticklebacks .Sticklebacks are fascinating wee fish to watch. I'll be starting to the new pond shortly.

As for the wood-in-cement tracklaying method,works fine as long as drainage is good. Otherwise frost-heave in winter could be problematic.   

 

 

 

Oh ,well,got the mornin dry and sunny so got a wee bit progress made. Got some more slabs and stones laid and a couple of posts put in for "she who must be obeyed"'s clothes drying area.  (Anythin for the quiet life) ,  Rain has now stopped play...  need to go and work for a living later anyway...   DSCN4367DSCN4368

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Fantastic weather here today, ...decided not to do that clothes drying area with stone chips ,decided it would be better lookin with grass so soiled it and raked it and its almost ready for turfing. Also got most of the soil mound demolished and spread on the small lawn on the left hand side, it too should be turfed in the next couple of days. Almost beginning to look like a garden again. DSCN4371DSCN4372DSCN4373

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Hi Guys ,scorching weather here now ,ideal for workin on the new pond. Just in the process of lining it with thick wet newspapers ,makes for a good protective underlay for the liner. The central planter bed is now finished and planted out. Just a case of waitin for the plants to do their thing. DSCN4392DSCN4393DSCN4394

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Hi Guys, well, sun got too hot to work in this afternoon , so I got one of my locos out and gave it a spin on the short length of track thats laid. Great view for a rail nut about 3 feet from the kitchen-diner window ?  Can't wait to get into the tracklaying and train running. Another couple of weeks or so and I should be ver near ready to turn my attention in that direction !! DSCN4395DSCN4396 

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