We both always wanted a pond, dreamed of it, and it just finally became reality last year. My husband, a farmer, had a piece of land with a hill on the corner that people always asked him to sell, he never did. Then he met me, we married, built his dream house on the hill and finally the pond. He's happy, I'm happy. And, fishing is so much fun.

Done differently? Plan ahead for the dream! Had we planned our house on the bill better, we could have had the pond in front the house and kidney shaped but because of the septic system it was the less costlier of the two and we're happy with it just the way it is now.