Otter, This is a real lesson in taking pictures that illustrate well
The waterfall bucket is buried to within a couple inches of the lip. It's about 2 ft in diameter and 13" deep, so it's between 20 and 25 gallons. The block of ice & lava rock was HEAVY! The following pic shows the waterfall, the middle pool; and the reflection of the shed and the ugly orange chiminea is from the surface of the main pond. In the foreground, in front of the waterfall bucket, is the ice & lava rock block. It's still thawing! The reason it freezes is that the mound that was built for the waterfall and the middle pool have huge blocks of limestone in them, and not much soil. The waterfall mound is actually almost 5 ft above grade. So it's pretty exposed to freezing conditions.
I was talking to my wife, who is in Paris taking French (what else?
) for a few weeks. We use Skype to keep in touch, and I was telling her about my travails with spring cleaning. She asked, what would you like to do? I said, What I'd
like to do is put in a Savio. She said as soon as she asked her question, she could see my eyes light up. I guess I'm pretty transparent.
Larry