Ours too...10 years....finally said hec with it, we're doing it. And like they said, it's yours, you love it! By next year, your pond will so drastically change in look, you will be amazed...cattails come up by themselves, you'll put maybe a feew trees....we put 3 large willows and 7 evergreens as a boudry--privacy--dug the holes ourselves and planted them to save $$$$SSS. I was raised half way between Baton Rouge and New Orleans in St. James Parish.