Yesterday I had the day off and the weather was sunny and low 50's (Today it's snowing)so what better time to go look at rock for the new ponds. Found a great place only four miles from home. Picked out samples and returned to calculate how much would be needed and how much it would set me back. In all I hauled 900 lbs, load and unload. Figure two more trips should do it. Turns out, the owner tells me, the Cardrock tumbled pond stone is from Maryland.
What was really interesting was the store had and indoor pond with a beautiful waterfall and a bridge across it. They had some Koi over 15". So talking with the owner he says "I also have a large frog in there". I said no way what do you feed him. Every day when he feed the Koi and the frog which was hiding under the bridge comes out and he tosses him fish food pellets and he snaps them up. He had a customer show up three years ago gave him the Frog. I suggested he should loan out his frog to me to teach mine but he thought it was a better idea if mine visited and he would train them. Guess he's grown fond of his frog. Can't say I blame him :P

Half the fun is building it.
Take lots of pics.

I live in quarry country in MD. There are old quarries all over. It's mostly granite and formica here.

Frogs normally only eat live animals. I can only figure either

1. The frog is desperate for food and intelligent enough to figure out he can live on pellets.

OR

2. The frog is not intelligent enough to realize that moving pellets are not living animals.

Ok, I've heard of granite quarries and limestone quarries, but never a formica quarry. Something new? :D

No, I said it's mostly granite and formica here (under the ground) but they only collect the granite for sale. I don't think anyone sells real formica? It falls apart too easily.

Robyn,
I think what you're referring to is mica, a flaky mineral that is quarried. Formica is the brand name for a laminate countertop material :)

Linda

I guess you're right. My parents call it formica!

Hello all Yesterday it was not raining for a change so took the afternoon off to start on the digging of the smaller of my planned ponds 8 x9 x 2 ft. I'm sure my neighbors think i'm loony since after spray painting the lawn. I changed my mind and moved it all around so it looks like i'm playing a giant game of Tic Tac Toe. :blink: Well it went pretty smoothly, except for the delay of the wheel falling off the lawn cart, cut all the sod rolled it and moved it to a section of my yard that the dog destroyed years ago. Now today and tomorrow rain, rain and more rain. Oh well....now the back can recuperate, not 40 anymore. :( Of course I will take pics and post later when the project gets further along.

FM3

Hi Froggy! Thanks for reffering to "40" as "young". LOL Cause......I am going to be 40 this year and I am pretty sure I couldn't haul all the rock. Two falls ago when I was "laying" out the pond, I went threw 3 cans of spray paint (different colours to determine the "newest" layout) LOL. After near killing myself digging the dried out old sod off of my best laid out plan, I decided that I wanted a semi raised rectangle pond! WOMEN!!!!!!!!! I almost cried when my hubby came in with the excavator and in about 3 minutes accomplished what I had taken two weeks to do! Take it easy out there! And......don't forget to post some picutres! Elaine