The 'Mini Pond'

For some reason, the water collects naturally on the west side of the house, forming a little mini pond.

It's sometimes a nuisance. The cows plod through it and the moisture draws wasps in the summer.

So Gerald got the idea of filling it with some extra river rock we have. The only trouble with that, is that the water started running across the driveway.

So he had Brian Hampton bury a pipe in the ground that we hoped would act as a kind of culvert. Gerald attached this above-ground portion to keep things out of it until he could protect it. But with the rain starting, he had to finish it up.

First, he removed the above-ground portion of the pipe

Then he covered it with this screen, which was the mesh cover to an old fire pit.

Finally, he dug out a little trench to lead the water to the pipe.

It worked beautifully.