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Great looking pottery! Hope to have some in my home someday! Good luck!

Ray
 
This is a motivating thread, some really nice looking projects by members. Having put my hand to a number of the arts/crafts (RC aircraft, masonry, reno, etc...) featured here I can appreciated the time and effort that goes into these things.

In the summer of 2011 my family started a project that didn't actually get finished till this last summer, and that was building a courtyard at the back of our house. We had a sort of ugly backyard and I wanted to enclose the area for privacy and add a little life and greenery by having a pond area.
Anyway, here's a couple pictures of the results, and a video showing the building process and some of the steps involved up till the fall of 2011.
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Edit: thought I might as well add a video showing the pond in it's finished stage.
 
Lumber-Jack, That is pretty impressive. I little piece of New mexico in beautiful British Columbia!
 
Beautiful job, LJ! Very, very nice! if that were my place, I'd probably never leave the backyard all summer long!
 
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Thanks guys. Yes it is a little more palatable sitting out in our backyard now. ;)
We live in an area with great mountain views and those views are still very visible, but the courtyard walls block out everything else, so it has been a win\win situation, and it was a great family project.
 
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Lumber Jack - you are freaking me out. I thought I recognized your son. Why the name change? OH - and one HECK of a job on that backyard and pond.
 
I agree. The name change is tricky.
 
Lumber Jack - you are freaking my out. I thought I recognized your son. Why the name change? OH - and one HECK of a job on that backyard and pond.
Sorry, not trying to freak anybody out, but since the new forum format the old name Carbon_Liberato
r, didn't fit properly in the space provided below the avatar (the r always got pushed down one line and it read like it does above). For some reason this really bugged me and I decided to try and fix it, but couldn't without changing the name, so one thing led to another and I went with a complete make over. LOL
I figured the lumberjack image would be more appropriate since I live in British Columbia and always wanted to be a lumberjack anyway. You know how the song goes..... ;)

I wanted to be... a lumberjack!

Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia. The Giant Redwood. The Larch. The Fir! The mighty Scots Pine!
I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay.
I sleep all night and I work all day.

MOUNTIES:
He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

BARBER:
I cut down trees. I eat my lunch.
I go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays I go shoppin'
And have buttered scones for tea.

MOUNTIES:
He cuts down trees. He eats his lunch.
He goes to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays he goes shopping
And has buttered scones for tea.

He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

BARBER:
I cut down trees. I skip and jump.
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on women's clothing
And hang around in bars.

MOUNTIES:
He cuts down trees. He skips and jumps.
He likes to press wild flowers.
He puts on women's clothing
And hangs around in bars?!

He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

BARBER:
I cut down trees. I wear high heels,
Suspendies, and a bra.
I wish I'd been a girlie,
Just like my dear Papa.

MOUNTIES:
He cuts down trees. He wears high heels,
Suspendies, and a bra?!

[talking]
What's this? Wants to be a girlie?! Oh, My!
And I thought you were so rugged! Poofter!...

[singing]
He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

He's a lumberjack, and he's okaaaaay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
 
I LOVE Monty Python! Hah!
 
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