Hi Joe...Good to hear from you, and will send along the wishes to Shila. Looking forward to seeing you (and your wife hopefully) out here in August for our koi show in Denver...
Here is where we are... which is really nowhere. Test hole, 20 feet deep drilled last week.. hit water at 14 feet. The plan that has been come up with by the soils and structural engineers (yes, it has crossed my mind that I must be nuts....more than once
) is to drill and place 37 twenty foot deep , 12" diameter concrete piers with rebar in them as a retaining wall, and then dig the pond again and proceed, Have had to get permits for all phases, and bids from multiple contractors, but hopefully is all straightened out. I keep getting told that we are about to start, but it hasnt happened. But my foot is to the metal...LOL
here is Shila's newest family addition. Sir Bramley Porkchester, our second bulldog...Egads, now I think she wants to breed those. But I have negotiated a promise from her to wait until the pond is done.. so she is pushing for it too..LOL.. not to mention our neighbors... "Umm.. Bob.,... How's the pond going??"