It was actually better than 20 years ago. My youngest who was then
about 14 or 15 had been begging me for a goldfish pond forever. I kept
saying no!. But then I went back to Germany for the first time in 20
years and every garden that I look at hat some sort of small water
feature in it. So I called home and told him he could have his goldfish
pond. When I got home we made a deal. (this was about April/May) that
each of us would commit to 2 wheelbarrow (contractor size) loads a week
and by the end of summer we would have a good size pond. So we layed
out the area with string and started cutting the sod. That's when my
Husband and our oldest got home from work and asked what in the world we
thought we where doing. We explained, the 2 looked at each other,
doubled over laughing and left again. I thought, that figures, no help
from them. An hour later they re-appeared with dumptruck and backhoe. A
couple hours later the pond was dug.
Now came the real problem. Oregon back then had absolutely no pond
suppliers And of course no Internet to buy from yet. So we put in 3
layers of heavy black plastic. That lasted 3 years till some nephews of
mine decided to spearfish. Oh was I mad! But by then we had one small
Pondsupplier in Portland and we got a Tetra Pondliner that lasted till
last year.

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