On Abby's Pond...
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
United States
June 9, 2017 6:51am CST
On Golden Pond was a great movie. Our little pond isn't golden, but it's worth a lot to us anyway. We enjoy the view from our windows, we enjoy sitting on the bench relaxing and/or fishing.
Unfortunately, the weeds that surround the pond are too much for my husband to deal with. He does enough weed eating around here and to do the pond area would push him over the limit. That's why we are glad we found a guy to do it.
We had him here two days ago and this time he brought his two sons. The two boys used the weed eaters and the father used a DR trimmer. Those machines can chop down trees!
An hour later the pond looked beautiful and the dad and the boys were soaked and their feet were quite muddy! They are hard workers and we told the father we will have him to that job every other month during the season. For the $60 we paid is was well worth it!
There are things we need help with the older we get. As long as my husband can handle most of the outside work I certainly don't mind paying someone to do the backbreaking work like weed eating around the pond.
Photo is mine.
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They are going to have plenty of work to do.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Jun 17
I just wish the weeds didn't grow faster than the grass LOL!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
11 Jun 17
@RubyHawk The guy who did the weed eating said some of those 'weeds' were like small trees with a thick trunk!
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
11 Jun 17
@AbbyGreenhill That would be better.
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
10 Jun 17
That is a lovely pond. You have a nice piece of property.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Jun 17
Thanks, we enjoy the pond and the country!
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
11 Jun 17
It is work to tend to the pond, but so worth it @AbbyGreenhill
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
11 Jun 17
The water level is dropping again - we have a leak someplace that started last year during the drought. We thought with all the rain and how full the pond was that it cured itself - wrong! We should have rain off and on this week so we hope to bring it up a few inches.
@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
10 Jun 17
I'm glad your pleased with their work... and 60 dollars sound quite reasonable....
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Jun 17
Yes, we thought so also. The dad is a hard worker and his boys are following in his footsteps.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
11 Jun 17
@sueznewz2 Yes, too many kids want want want everything and don't want to work.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Jun 17
Yes it is - nothing like country living.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Jun 17
@Courtlynn Yes, the original owners had the pond dug. We had looked into having one done at our previous home and they wanted 10K to do it.
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@Courtlynn (67089)
• United States
9 Jun 17
@AbbyGreenhill and it was already there when you moved in?
@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
9 Jun 17
Nice you got the pond done.
What kind of fish are in there Abby?
@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
9 Jun 17
@AbbyGreenhill Nice I love to fish.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Jun 17
carp, cat fish, bream, sunnies and some we don't know what they are.
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@LeaPea2417 (40029)
• Toccoa, Georgia
9 Jun 17
That is a lovely pond and I can understand why you would pay someone to trim around it. That would be a real tough job.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Jun 17
Thanks, yes, I need my husband in one piece so paying for some work to be done is one way of keeping him around!
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@Marilynda1225 (91086)
• United States
9 Jun 17
Your pond looks so inviting and relaxing. Seems that the guys who did the trimming were affordable and it makes sense to hire people when it gets to be too much. I'm sure your husband is happy he doesn't have to do it anymore.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Jun 17
He had never done weed eating arund the pond. The guy who did it the other day did it two months ago and that was the first time it had been done since we lived here. The weeds didn't grow as high until this season..we just sorta ignored them! He has a lot of weed eating to do around al the fencing and such, so he's happy paying for the hard stuff to be done.
@JESSY3236 (22245)
• United States
9 Jun 17
nice picture. I hate weed eating too.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Jun 17
I love mowing, but weed eating - no way!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Jun 17
cats, carp, bream, sunnies and a few others we have no about about.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Jun 17
That pond isn't all that little. Yes, the pond has been stocked by previous owners and we've added to it. We have several catfish that are over 3 feet long and two grass eating carp that are probably close to 4 feet long...and lots of fish of other sizes and varieties. That photo was taken quite a distance from the pond.
This photo was taken from the dock/bench.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
9 Jun 17
@AbbyGreenhill It's little in terms that it isn't like a lake. That's a lot of fish.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Jun 17
@JohnRoberts But it doesn't claim to be a lake LOL! Yes, we have lots of fish and no license required.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Jun 17
Yes, it is nice to sit there and fish or just sit and do nothing.
