My incredibly creative and wonderful husband has done it again!! What started out as a little idea of mine - perhaps a little corner pond off of our patio - has turned into another Harry feat. I started digging a spot the winter of 2009 and then it sat there, a useless hole, during the hot summer months. Sam and I took up the cause again this past winter, digging drywall buckets of gravel and coral rock out and Harry carted them a few at a time to an empty lot we own for fill material. At times, the job seemed impossible. We discovered mamouth chunks of coral that needed the assistance of the laws of physics and a hammer drill to unearth. I began to contemplate the value of TNT. The project then began to snowball. We needed a waterfall. We needed electrical power and a pump house and underground pipes and drainage. Harry dragged beautiful coral rocks back from a rental property a few at a time. We moved a behemoth landscape rock from the front and another purchased in Miami. These rocks entailed platforms, rollers and Harry the Pharaoh and Carolyn the slave, rolling the monsters to the backyard and into place. Harry built a platform for the waterfall out of cement. "It is too big" I lamented - it turned out to be perfect. Matt's brother in law Ryan, who was visiting, made the mistake of asking one day if there was anything he could do to help. Next thing he knew, he and Matt moved a citrus tree and dug trenches. Sam helped. I helped. But the hero was Harry, who envisioned and created this absolutely delightful, and soothing, water scape.
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