We started on Saturday morning by draining the pond near the front door. It was a mess from decomposing leaves, three very dead frogs and a few small pieces of firewood.
The pond as it is being drained. I was extremely grateful when Richard said he would step into the pond and clean it out.
By early afternoon the clouds had built and we had to run inside. We watched through the french doors as the storm moved through. Lots of lightening, heavy rain and two rounds of hail,,maybe the size of marbles.
Sunday morning I awoke early and was treated to a lovely sunrise.
After Richard had made us breakfast and did the dishes we headed outside to finish out projects. One was to move the wood that we had stacked on the back deck last fall (see Another Working Weekend 11/10/10). All that wood was stacked where our outside dining table goes and it had to be moved. I sorted it out into two piles. One pile went back into the woodshed and the other was neatly stacked near the fountain to be burned in the chimenea.
By lunchtime we had the pond scrubbed and refilled. The frog is now running again for the summer.
Here is our fountain and the chiminea wood.
At the end of the weekend we were able to enjoy the fruit of our labors and sat outside in front of the fire.
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