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I have a album on Facebook where i highlight the stuff i do around the house and i found these old photos, so i thought i;d start a thread showing the progression of my pond.

It all started when i found a pool for free on Craigslist.
 

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well free pool didnt work out great, it didn't hole air... so i figured why not dig a big hole in the ground and throw it in, it can be a pond.

so this was pretty much year one, it spent the entire first summer, as a big blue hole in the ground, a few fish, and a few plants.
 

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fish came inside for the winter, as it was only 2 feet deep, and then the next year i fill it up and it leaks like crazy.. pool liners tend to crack when the freeze i guess. SO year two... I'm still being a cheap ass, and don't want to buy a real liner (take in mind that first year between free liner and free plants, i had only spent $40 on a pump and that was it so far) so i decide some cheap 10 mil thick painter tarps over the pool liner will take care of the problem for a while. bring in the white liner!
 

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a few weeks later i decided i needed to hide that thing, so back into the digging i went, making a rock shelf so they would sit inside. The pond was beautiful of the rest of the summer.
 

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then in the fall, tragedy struck as my neighbors dog decided it would be fun to stand int he pond an chew on that cheapo plastic, so the fish came inside again, and i decided i should really put money into a real liner. so if i was going to do that, i was going to go bigger, much bigger.
 

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