4/4 Spent the day today with @Tree turning the water on and off, and the pump on and off.. watching how the water comes out of the bog filter and down into the poolpond. Pump is only at 25%, which is more like 15% as there will be a second pump as well in time.

Shifted some of the flat stones around and got them in a nice place. I had to do some hand digging under the lining near the tree. I am pretty sure the berm is too low there for when the pumps are at full force, but I am ok with where things are now. There is lots of opportunity to build the edges up if need be.

For now, I am going to work on sealing the rocks along the edge in to help direct the water.

I also need to splice in an extension cord into the pump wiring so that I can run a long enough distance to have the power supply and controller in the small shed and not hiding under the liner at the top of the pond. 🤣

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PS.

Here are the two outlets. This is probably not how it will look in the end, but just a starting point. Once I have the water flowing how I want it to, I will use pond foam sealant to lock the rocks into place and force the water into its final channels and patterns but as you can imagine there is some trial and error to be done before that big step.

For noe you can see there is a fold of liner sitting vertically betwewn the rocks to split the channel. I really have no idea where the water will get to once at full force so this might be too high, or too low but it should not be too far off.

The main thing is that the water is contained within the greater system around the tree. That's the trickiest part right now.

It is a wonderful tree. We don't want to drown it.

Speaking of which, if you are wondering about water. Yes. This is thousands of litres of water. But at this point I am not worried if I need to fill up and drain the bog filter a few times. All extracted water will go into the rest of the garden anyway, so aside from a little evaporation, nothing will be wasted.

Still waiting on it to fill. Looks like it won't be full before quitting time. oh well! Back tomorrow water experiments!
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2/2 Then I moved on to working on finalizing the stream and edges of the poolpond.

After a trial run last fall I realized I needed to do a little more sculpting of the clay at the front of the pond where the bog filter and poolpond meet.

I would like to encourage a long waterfall along the front edge.

So after some peeling back of the liners to reinforce the berm in a few spots near the tree especially, I made a proper ledge at the front and am laying down some of the slate that we also used on the #pandemicpond in the front yard. It'll tie the two in conceptually.

Now I am filling the bog filter with city water (the likelihood of filling from the skies is long gone now) but I will only fill it enough to get a read on where the water is wanting to flow.

Ideally I would like two channels from the bog filter.

The main one will go toward the poolpond, along the front and spill over from there.

A secondary one will go close to the tree to be used if I need to divert the water from the poolpond but still want to keep the filter and system active.

Now I wait... I'm running out of time for today but will be back tomorrow. If I'm lucky, I might be able to get a pump back in and start up the system!

the apple waych strap is hiding a tan line... but it is not just a tan unfortunately lol

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@floehopper @zenspider 🤺 yard-fence 0.9.0 is released.

yard-fence is a small Ruby gem for cleaner YARD docs: it preprocesses Markdown/TXT files into `tmp/yard-fence/`, converts brace syntax that YARD can mistake for links, and restores normal `{}` in the generated HTML so examples stay copy-pastable.

This release moves documentation processing to explicit Rake integration and removes global `at_exit` post-processing.  

https://github.com/galtzo-floss/yard-fence/releases/tag/v0.9.0

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