Hier kom 'n Dam

Richard Hess is managing the development of a dam for us.

Here's George and co putting his digger to work.

Check out that soil!











We are probably going to have to pump water from the lei water to fill the dam (to the top) but I still want to find a way to just pour the stuff in through a sluice from the lei water channel.

For our first summer we've bought a weekly Saturday afternoon 30 minute slot. I reckon about 5l per second flow - so we should be able to keep it topped up nicely all summer for the princely sum of R1200 all in.

Trees are gekap

So the trees are down..
Gekap.
The big old gum at the entrance and the big old pine in the middle.
The gum was a bit of a headache with the Stodart treefeller company.
They took it down and then carted off all the timber which wasn't part of the deal.

I had to get them to return it - which they did. The aspect of the plot from Park Street looks quite strange without the old tree there. I got the feller to leave a 4 foot stump - with the intention of carving something out of it. Not sure what yet or how or who can help me with it.














Then the old pine. The dam's going to go in the hole left by it. I really dislike removing any trees, but I have to keep telling myself it's ok. We are going to plant at least 20 in their place.

Now I'm just hoping that we can move this wood down the plot before it 

"grow's legs" as my neighbor says. :)