{"id":270,"date":"2012-01-23T16:23:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T22:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2012-10-02T17:10:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:10:22","slug":"the-future-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"The future pond&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we spent the morning trying to figure out where the pond is going to go on the land. I am planning a large enough pond that will support more of the wildlife we have around here. There will be a bog garden in the back that will act as a filter, and it will hold a lot of marginal plants to help clean and filter the water. It will flow over some rocks into the pond. At this point I am not putting any fish in there besides a tadpole or a thousand. I would like this to be a wildlife pond. I can&#8217;t wait for the dragonflies and frogs to move in! We spent a good half hour laying out the hose, moving it and taking photos to figure out where the best sunshine, shade and location for viewing would be.<a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0998.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271\" title=\"DSCN0998\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0998-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0998-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0998-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0998-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>So we found the perfect spot and it didn&#8217;t take Dick long to jump in and take a backstroke in the new pond. I felt bad telling him it will need to be dug and filled with water first. He seemed so enthusiastic and I didn&#8217;t want to spoil the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and yes the little tree in the middle with the fence will have to be moved too.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a big project to dig since our soil here is Caliche limestone and rock hard. \u00a0I will probably have to rent a backhoe. And then the digging will begin. Tough work ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we spent the morning trying to figure out where the pond is going to go on the land. I am planning a large enough pond that will support more of the wildlife we have around here. There will be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=270\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}