widening the stream and adding a small offset ...a pond!

that is just lovely Lori...i would love to have a stream...

You lucky thing! How wonderful to have your own little stream ... and now a pond.

Fantastic!! agree with Sandra and Bernieh!

its really lovely, even the widening seems to have left it looking entirely natural.
is there anything living in the stream?

Thanks Sandra, Bernie, Karen and Sticki...I'm really enjoying myself but feeling my age...my trusty spade is getting a workout too! They tell me that there are brook trout farther down stream ... I have a couple of perfect spawning spots for trout...(a gravelly stream bed with a steady current)and also some bottom feeders called "suckers"...they look like a catfish, and taste like a swamp! Yuck..haven't seen any amphibians yet...hoping for a few little frogs and toads... found out from a neighbour that the mess in my yard that I thought was made by foxes digging up moles ..is actually the result of his pigs getting out thro the fence! lol....Do I love it here, or what?????

you sound like you have the energy of a teenager Lori. i so enjoy watching your new home burst into spring.:-)

Thanks Sandra! We've been waiting a long time for spring to arrive and now the wags are saying that the download failed and we have to reboot!lol...hubby is saying that we'll most likely go from late winter into early summer long about the beginning of June!!