Kois, living jewels 

Zei Kohaku

Introduction

Old pond

Temporary pond

Stairs pond

Filters (New)

New Pond

Phase I (Everything goes wrong)

Phase II (Getting better)

Phase III (Finally the end) (New)

My Kois

New pond
The beginning

(13/06/2006)
Great optimism.





Lower optimism. To work the clay is going to be a hell of hand work.

The war zone.



No people to work. So much clay and I'm alone. No optimism at all



I wonder if I did right in starting this.

(16/06/2006) 
After day and half work the first rain. My pond already has some water...

It keeps raining. And the water keeps falling

Much more rain. The walls begin to fell down. I'm so sad.

(17/06/2006)
Ok. I have one more man to help. Not everything is bad. We just have to start all over again.

(18/06/2006)
The shelf.  The clay is hard as a rock. The eat is 38º C.

Good lord I'm so tiered

In June I decided to start the new pond. For this I took some vacations in June. But it was a very unlucky time. First I contract with a machine that failed to come, because it had a damaged part.

I contract another machine, but it was already with one day of delay. I thought, I could gain this day, but the machine had difficulty in moving and the driver was really bad and let me with a war zone in hands. Moreover it dug more than what I had in mind and in the project, increasing problems. Well, the pond was much bigger. A great lesson that I had learn in the pass pay is dividends. I had much more liner then the initial measures. But the ideal job is to make the hole first and buy the liner later.

Then I contract two men to help me, but they didn't appeared. Second day of delay. The things really started to run badly. Finally I arrange only one man, instead of the two, I need to help me. When we start the work we only could do it, for one day and half. A real heavy rain start and we couldn't work any more. After the rain stops I had to go to work so we only could work during week-ends.