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Starting the dream update...

First of all I am very grateful for this site as it has provide so much information, insight and guidance. Over the past 4 months or so since I first started looking at Pond Boss, I have learned more than I could have imagined to ask as I red and re-red answers to my questions and answers to many other questions. I am sure countless people have said this but let me add to the list, thank you to all the moderators and other participants who have provided the answers and sometimes timely questions. I would mention Bob, Mike, Dave but would be afraid that I have left out many key people. Have I kissed up enough?

My wife is also very pleased with the site not that she has ever been on it or read anything but the more I communicate here on Pond Boss the less she has to hear me telling her.

I met Bruce Walholtz of Cedarcreek Consulting at the land site last Monday. He is fantastic and on board for helping put everything together. It was raining and muddy so we did not walk the entire plot. Where I thought the pond would go before seeing the land without the corn crop is not nearly the best place, in fact it not even an option with the way the land rolls. As we walked up and over a small ridge, there sat �the spot� or as Bob writes inthe book "'Ahaa...there it is. Two hills flaring back to a perfectly sloping meadon with no trees."' There is was in the middle of the field lay a nice basin or depression in the land, situated between the ridge we just crossed and another ridge located about 200 feet across. There two ridges created a nice and large basin with one side needing the dam and the other slowly running uphill to the top of the land. The drop from top of ridges to bottom of basin is between 15-20 feet. I am sure my description does not make sense but the jist is that we were both surprised, pleasantly, to see such a wonderful and borderline perfect spot.

Next week we start putting together a step list with a time table. This is really exciting and fun.

I apologize for no pictures too rainy (more I am too stupid to figure out how to use the camera) but next entry I will post some.

Thanks again for reading and listening so to speak.