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Surprise!  We're getting a pond!

7/15/2013

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PictureFrom Erik's Pool to Pond page.
So now I'm thinking this pond-thing just might be doable!  Further research into converting our 20,000 gallon swimming pool into a swimming pond took me here, here, here, here and finally to Erik's Pool to Pond page. 

Erik lives in Oregon and he restructured the interior of his pool using sand bags, soil and a pond liner to reduce the water volume and to make shelves for plants.  His goal wasn't to swim in the pond but I found his page the most helpful in terms of construction ideas, photos of the steps and information on how to build a bio-filter (more on that later). 

Armed with this information, I approached Jim with the great news that we were converting our swimming pool to a swimming pond!  You can imagine that a man who had just spent the last several weeks painstakingly working to make your pool water look the exact opposite of a pond, in the ferocious Texas heat, wouldn't think too highly of the idea.  But my husband is a reasonable man.  He also knows that I can be a bit mule-ish when I get a (brilliant) idea into my head, so he read the websites I sent to him. 

He stopped adding all chemicals to the pool the very next day and we continued our research.  We needed to learn about water plants, bio-filters, fishies compatible with Texas weather and pond pumps.

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5/14/2021 11:13:48 am

Thank you for writing thiis

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    Andrea Davis

    I am a mixed media artist, sculptor, publisher, a homeschooling mom and NEW POND ENTHUSIAST living in a suburb of East Dallas.  I use mostly recycled and re-purposed materials in my work, which I think goes hand in hand with turning our time and chemical-consuming 20,000 gallon swimming pool into a beautiful natural swimming pond!  This blog shows our journey of how we did it and our progress as we learn to make our pond self-sustaining.

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