"k" wrote in message
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Last night, at 4am, or I guess I should say,
this morning, at 4am, I turned on the furnace.
Too cold to sleep. Yesterday it rained and
youngest son reported it was cold in the
classroom.
DH tackled the garage. Pond is still on the
list. I'm going to move one of the deck pond
plants into the frog bog. It is a grassy plant
with tiny, yellow starlike flowers that bloom
for a day. A good ponder would know the name.
I did report it somewhere back last spring...
The chrysanthemums are blooming on the
deck. I like the rust and plum coloured varieties.

k :-)
http://tinyurl.com/6bguh ~ new pond keeper info
http://tinyurl.com/yp64db ~ slide show of pond


It's staying fairly warm here, the Hibiscus hasn't come in for the winter
yet. It doesn't like consistent temps below 50°.

Poured the cement for the bottom drain today, hopefully the no niche skimmer
gets plumbed tomorrow. I might get the liner in next week, but I doubt it.
The hole still needs some leveling and I have to build the filters yet.

Evenings down to 45 here, days still around 70+

Great weather to enjoy th yard, and catch up on chopping firewood for
winter.. I did our entire winter supply this last week, installed a
workbench, and mounted a chainsaw sharpener because I was dulling them so
fast.

Imagine 20 feet x 5feet high stakes of firewood.. in a week or so.

Needless to say, my arm's sore now.. LOL!

Still getting some water lilly flowers, and the pickerel is still blooming.
The wife also read that pickerel is edible.. anyone ever have any?

--
Gareee
(Gary Tabar Jr.)

Great to hear of the progress. Pics?

Jim

"Phyllis and Jim" wrote in message
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Great to hear of the progress. Pics?

Jim


Yeah, I should take some before I cover the cement. I probably should have
taken some before the drain got covered.

I ran into a snag plumbing the skimmer, I didn't have the piece to join the
bulkead to the elbow. I'm not really crazy about having the bulhead
protruding into the pond (nut in pond), but I don't see much choice based on
the fittings available. I want to be able to unscrew the skimmer in winter,
so I don't want to go the pipe boot route.

Hi Bill - I don't know if I'm missing something here, but the bulkheads I
use are threaded all the way through - can't you use a male connection on
the "pond" side so the nut and rest of bulkhead is "outside" the pond?
Just a thought - Gale :~)
I ran into a snag plumbing the skimmer, I didn't have the piece to join
the bulkead to the elbow. I'm not really crazy about having the bulhead
protruding into the pond (nut in pond), but I don't see much choice based
on the fittings available. I want to be able to unscrew the skimmer in
winter, so I don't want to go the pipe boot route.

"G Pearce" wrote in message
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Hi Bill - I don't know if I'm missing something here, but the bulkheads I
use are threaded all the way through - can't you use a male connection on
the "pond" side so the nut and rest of bulkhead is "outside" the pond?
Just a thought - Gale :~)
I ran into a snag plumbing the skimmer, I didn't have the piece to join
the bulkead to the elbow. I'm not really crazy about having the bulhead
protruding into the pond (nut in pond), but I don't see much choice based
on the fittings available. I want to be able to unscrew the skimmer in
winter, so I don't want to go the pipe boot route.

Plan A was to put the nut outside the pond and the flange inside the pond,
so that bulkhead was almost flush with the pond. I bought some cheapie
bulkheads for this that are slip/thread and a wee slip after that. But I
didn't plan on the Skimmer outlet being so far down the liner (damn that
JJ); it's something like 2' below the pond's surface. Plus the bulkhead
would be sticking out a long way from the elbow, which will present slumping
issues with this much backfill and my steep sides. So Plan B was to go with
a thread/thread bulkhead facing the other way and a spigot to MPT adapter.
Hence the missing part, I don't have the adapter.

Ideally, they'd make a threaded bushing that I could screw the bulkhead
into, but I've never seen such an animal.

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:09:26 CST, "Bill Stock" wrote:

I ran into a snag plumbing the skimmer, I didn't have the piece to join the
bulkead to the elbow. I'm not really crazy about having the bulhead
protruding into the pond (nut in pond), but I don't see much choice based on
the fittings available. I want to be able to unscrew the skimmer in winter,
so I don't want to go the pipe boot route.

We unscrew it at the base of the skimmer pot. a fitting attached to the
pipe that comes thru the liner. ~ jan
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