In the not so distant past, we did some work with a bulldozer at Jake's family property in Hornby. Now, I use we in a very loose manner, since the most work I did was to help paint trim, and sleep. Jake's friend Nate jumped into the 'dozer cabin and had a glorious 2 days playing with the heavy machinery and moving dirt.
The first day of our adventure opened with the boys tearing down a tree that stood in the middle of the water-logged field between the road and the cabin. once that was down, Nate began to move dirt around and started to dish out the pond space. At the end of the day, we had a bit of water starting to take over the small indentation we'd created:
Day two was a bit rough since the top layer of soil was absolute SLUDGE. And by that I mean super-saturated mud so thick the dozer was sinking quite a bit!
While Jake and Nate were conferring on how to proceed with the mud and dishing out the pond, Indy and I found a useful way to keep ourselves busy!
About 4 days after we'd finished playing in the mud and Nate had made his final passes with the 'dozer, Jake and I came back to investigate the height of the water in our pond hole. We'd been quite skeptical from the beginning about what height the water would in fact reach, and thought that the picture below would be the view we'd see for years to come....
About 2 weeks later, we saw that there was clearly more water pouring into that old water-logged field than we'd expected!
While we were up there, we started trying to smooth out some of the ruts that the 'dozer had left behind with Jake's pick and the garden hoe. We made some headway, but mostly I looked around for interesting pictures and frogs. The water is still so cloudy and green from all the reflected light off the trees that this photo was too good to pass up!
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