Hey,
I think I've figured out how to post pictures and make posts. OK now I can get started on showing you guys some of the things that have been going on in my life.  Sometimes the internet really is an amazing thing!  That picture of the pond was one taken awhile ago and shows the original size.

this is Shawn starting to dig, on oct.15. He spent all day draining the pond on friday and it rained overnight, so when he got up on Saturday it was full again.  So he started all over again.  By Saturday at supper the pond was back down to this level. So he started digging.

Here's Dave trying to save as many Koi fish as he could. Well I kind of made him try to save them.  We actually filled 2 buckets with them and added fresh water, planning to put them back in the next day.  But when I went down on sunday most of them had jumped out of the bucket and were dead anyway. Oh well, my conscience is clear. At least I tried.

Conner got a little dirty in the process!

It's kind of hard to tell here, but the pond is dug. Just not graded or levelled off.  On the left is where you walked in from the field, I'm standing on the edge of the newly dug part. And the far end where it's not covered in water is the old pond. The new part is a little deeper.