Well, Liz and I spent pretty much all day trying to get the pond area finished up. I redid the edging a month or two ago, and we needed to finish putting in the border stones, and also to finish building the adjacent box turtle enclosure. The pond as of now has a bunch of comets, three koi, two eastern painted turtles and a mississippi map turtle. The box turtle pen will eventually house 3f/1m eastern box turtles. I extended the pond to create a small "wading area" for the box turtles. We built a raised bed on the lawn side of the pen, so I just have to order the plants to go in there. We also filled the holes in the cinderblocks with dirt and will be planting some ground cover in there as well to make a nice cap all the way around the pen.
Updates since the last pictures are: New deck railing, to keep the baby from crawling off the deck for a swim, finishing the pond border, finishing the boxie enclosure, and having my yard clean lol. Oh yeah, we just finished the white fencing too, basic vinyl picket fence. It separates the part of hte yard where the pond is to keep the baby and dogs out, and eventually we'll have a nice little garden area with a fireplace and stuff.
Future plans will be painting the inside of the cinderblocks to a brown color, and building some cover in there as well as some planting. That will hopefully be done in the next few weeks, but I'm just glad to have it to a finished-looking state for a change. Anyway, some pics.
Updates since the last pictures are: New deck railing, to keep the baby from crawling off the deck for a swim, finishing the pond border, finishing the boxie enclosure, and having my yard clean lol. Oh yeah, we just finished the white fencing too, basic vinyl picket fence. It separates the part of hte yard where the pond is to keep the baby and dogs out, and eventually we'll have a nice little garden area with a fireplace and stuff.
Future plans will be painting the inside of the cinderblocks to a brown color, and building some cover in there as well as some planting. That will hopefully be done in the next few weeks, but I'm just glad to have it to a finished-looking state for a change. Anyway, some pics.
