It's a little round watering hole now.
In a normal rainfall year, this tree sits right at the water's edge and it's branches dip over nearly into the water.
All of this used to be covered by water. Since the pond is so low, we decided to take this opportunity to have it cleaned out and dug it deeper. I've noticed that a lot of people around us are doing the same thing.
The locals call this "sugar sand". It's very fine and white and most of our property is covered with it. Our neighbor, who originally dug the pond, told us that when he dug the pond, he dug down to clay and none of this sand was in it. Over the years, all of this sand has washed down into the pond from the neighboring fields. I'm a little bummed that they are digging it out because it was nice to have a sandy beach around the pond. When it's a clay bottom it gets slimy and slippery and if you step in it, your feet can slide right out from under you before you know it.
Within the first couple of days, they dug out over 200 tons. The dirt guy expects to dig for about a month.
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what are you going to do with all that sand?
We used a tiny fraction of it in our landscaping project, but most of it is being piled up in another area. We might try to sell it, I don't know. It's actually very nice sand...just like a beach. Charles, the digger, hit water today, so it looks like we might have a spring under there, which will be good news.
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