More Skips Please!

Day 3 of the big big and again it's early morning and we're eager to get started. We'd made fantastic progress the day before with the help of reinforcements resulting in the filter area being completely clear as well as half of the pond. Time for a big push today to see if we can get the pond fully dug ... however we're to put the soil?

With having the micro digger & MDTT for a short period we wanted top concentrate getting the actual excavating finished and worry about getting rid of the soil later. The other contributing factor being that it was Easter weekend and there was no one available to sort another skip out for us at short notice anyway. The excavated soil therefore had to piled up somewhere before we'd be able to move it on. The answer to this quandary being our middle garden.

Digging was postponed a little longer while the Easter Egg hunt for our three year old son (and Grandparents) was conducted and all the chocolate eggs etc had been secured (he was like a mini Indiana Jones) work on excavating the last of the pond could begin.

We made excellent progress and slowly but surely whittled away the remaining soil that was to be excavated for the pond. The digger had to be relocated a number of times so that we could follow the sides of the pond and as we neared the final corner it almost became like a dance - move to the left and jig to the right. The last clump of earth had to be hand dug from the corner as it was impossible to see exactly what was going on when trying to use the digger bucket, but it was simply a case of digging it out and then placing into the digger bucket for removal from the hole. 18.30 hrs on day 3 and the pond excavation was complete!

There's still quite a bit of work today here before moving on to the next stage of the build process as we still need to level the base as best we can. We also need to work out how to get rid of the mountain of earth that we've dumped in to the middle garden - either that or we have extremely large moles in this area?

I think we'll be having to make a couple of calls first thing Tuesday morning - one to Uniskip to see if we can have another skip urgently and another to Fairfax Plant Hire to see if they can pick the digger and MDTT as late on as possible! In the meantime, after all the hectic work we've completed over the past few days i think a well earned rest is called for on Monday. Perhaps even a trip out to .... yes you've guessed it, a Koi dealer.