RWinn that's a lot of winding string!
Need photos now!
Tootsie, I dug this pond 3' deep and built a wood post wall about 1' high, 8' long and the width is 5' on the left end and 4' at the right end, all lined and capped with stone. It took the whole 4th of July weekend in 2008, while DH was out of town. Got to give my son some digging credits. He started the depth and I went from there and throwing my back out indefinitely
I love my "Lily Pond" and the fishies, all named - shubs, wakins, ryukins, orandas, ranchus, and sarrassa comets. Basically anything with long fins
Just this past winter I had to fight the green heron. Only a year before that the netting went up for the egrets.