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To: sandintoes who wrote (26831)	2/19/2002 12:43:06 AM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

Right now you have four ponds, but you're eliminating one, right? Nope. If anything, I'll add them. Water gardens and koi ponds are a major hobby of mine. I'm just really into bodies of water of all kinds. I'm planning, however, to drain down the lake (well, some would consider it just a very large pond -- about 5-7 acres) this year to get the thousands of cubic yards of topsoil out of it, but then I'll let it fill back in. With water. Currently 4 ponds and one lake. And a few streams, one of which becomes practically a river during wet spells. It's the one feeding the lake. I guess that could be 5 ponds if you count the see-meant one. When do you think your earth moving will be completed? Oh, roughly, never. It's a big part of why I live out here and have Tonka Toys. Most of the earthmoving is far enough from the house that not only do I not stir up a lot of dust that can get to the house, my wife often doesn't know where I am unless she listens for machinery off in the distance. One enormous project I'm really not looking forward to is cleaning up the damage caused by an ice storm we had a few weeks ago. We were without grid-supplied electricity for about a week. And the density of the forest that most of my land is got reduced to about 60% of what it was. I can see a couple of fields from my back porch that used to be hidden by trees. It's not the felled trees I'm worried about so much. It's the trees and branches that aren't on the ground yet because they're being held up by other trees and branches. Ready to fall. I took lots of pictures of the aftermath of the storm and will post them later. The images are both beautiful and tragic at the same time. What I wish I would've done was record what I could hear while the storm was happening. A soft drizzle (that was freezing to everything on contact) punctuated about once every 15-30 seconds by huge crashing sounds as big trees got snapped in half or uprooted by the weight of the ice. All of my normal 4-wheeler trails through the property are currently impassable except on foot because of the trees and parts of trees laying everywhere or hanging precariously overhead.