Jan.24/98
This is where we are now! Those concrete-block walls you see under the big rocks
toward the left side of the crater in the picture, and around the huge rock in the centre are just that -
-- concrete-block walls.
This smaller picture shows what is supporting that huge rock in the
centre. Nothing but soil, which was slowly compressing, causing the rock to
sink a few inches every year. So we stabilized it with concrete and rebar.
This summer I plan to extend both myself and the concrete walls by
building a dividing wall between what will be a bog garden (at the bottom of the
picture), between the house to the north and the deeper plant pond to the south.
Then I plan to place a row of concrete blocks all around the top edge of the plant
pond. This will provide a stable edge for an underliner and liner, which I will wrap
over the blocks and hold down with capping stones.
After that ....?