Think I'll dig a hole today

I spent last weekend screwing with the little 3x5 foot water feature we put in last year. Mainly piling found rocks around it. It looked kind of nice.
Thursday I worked from home, and while wandering outside on a break, Jenn and I were talking about how the rill was a bit off kilter, and the bottom was buckling up between the rocks pushing down and the water seeping in around the bottom pushing up. And the pump is really too big for that much water.

So in a leap of brilliance I decided that the best way to fix this was to rip it out and put in a much larger pond.

Well, at least if I was going to do it, now's the time. Normally our ground is like cement, but right now it's very wet and I dug the main hole in about 3 hours and zero blisters, and only a little tired; in a couple of months it would have taken 2 days, a pick, and lots of sweat and blisters.

The hole is there now, I just need to do the trimming; flatten it out, curve the slopes, dig in the waterfall, shape a few contours, then it'll be ready for the liner and water. Then I guess since we have something that could reasonably be called a pond, we need to look at plants and such...

It's a slippery slope, but at least it's pretty.