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Welcome back to Andrew’s channel everybody. Today we are adding a pondless [Music] waterfall. I have a general idea of how I want this to look. It basically it’ll start at the top of our driveway, the hill here, because this is already sloped down. And I’m thinking it’s going to have a drop immediately and then maybe turn this way and drop turn back this way with a little stream and then a final drop down here to where the pondless waterfall vault will be. But we do have to mark out where our basin is going to go. That it’s like your water storage. I’ll show you what what that is in a minute. So that’s kind of the first step, deciding where you want the bottom, like the waterfall to end. And then you excavate that a little bit. Because our grade is higher than our path here, I ordered some extra stones. So I am going to be digging this back a little bit as well so that we can place kind of like a retaining armor stone along here, which is another thing that I was planning last year, but again, we just ran out of time and we just honestly didn’t really want to do it then. You can almost see the shape with the way the grass is. Totally. Yeah. Like it was meant to go. It naturally kind of does steps a little bit. So yesterday we took a little drive to pick up all the supplies we’re going to need for this project. And you can order a lot of these online. So we’ll link it in the description, but a place close to us was selling it, so we were able to just go and pick it [Music] up. I guess they’re the same way, right? Oh, no. They have little holes. So that’s probably the inside. Okay. So I’m guessing these just click together. [Music] They they’re probably pretty pressure fit. [Music] Yeah, cuz I looked at DIY ways to do this. We’re like Cuz I was like, “Okay, why buy these? You can just use milk crates.” Yeah. But they break down. Like these are specifically designed that once they’re in, you can put like a 2,000lb boulder on it and it doesn’t break or anything. How many of these we got to build? Five. Okay. And this is basically your water storage area because there’s no pond. The pond is technically underwater. The reason you use these is they can hold the water, but there’ll be rocks on top so that there isn’t like a pond above water or like you don’t see sitting water. Like you can literally like drive a car on these. Just like that. All five are [Music] built. [Music] Pretty much like that, [Music] right? That was good. [Music] How is step one always digging? You’re right. Everything we do, we have to dig. It’s the first step to every project. I want to show you guys my rock pile. These are all rocks that we dug out from the house previously in the series, and we’ve been collecting them all in anticipation for this project. So, I’m so excited that we’re going to be able to reinccorporate rocks from around our home into this beautiful waterfall. This was the one that we dug out when we were putting in the tree in the front yard. A few more that came out of the pathway and then digging the holes for all the plants in the [Music] front. Before we get too far ahead, this is the arbor stone we picked out for this project. We’re going to be using it as the border along the pathway, but also as the um for the waterfall. Yeah. To kind of retain some of the steps in the waterfall and just use as accent like rocks. It’s nice because it looks more organic than like a man-made stone. And with the waterfall, you want it to look like it’s not a man-made project. You don’t want it to look like a bunch of little stones stacked up and then the water trickling down from that. Absolutely. So, I think these are perfect. How do you want to put it? Uh well, like which site? I don’t think it really matters. Does it? Well, you I don’t think we should have two points going in. Okay. You know what I mean? Like what about that one? This one? Yeah. Yeah. It’s nice and straight. Just get it slung underneath like that. Mhm. And then you do the same on your side. Okay. Just make sure it’s under. And then just hold that. And then when I come in, you’re going to have to it just uh turn it that way so that when I pick it up, it spins that way. Okay, [Music] [Music] babe. That’s good. Okay, go. Yeah. That’s good. [Music] [Music] Whoa. [Music] [Music] Guess we can kind of assess what we’re working with here. So weird, eh? Yeah, that’s burnt for sure. Like it’s so crazy to think that this was part of a house that used to exist here. Crazy. Like the bricks too from it. Mhm. So cool, though. Very cool, babe. Should we do something with it? We’re getting into the weird stuff. Orange crushed bottle in perfect condition. What the heck? Another bottle. Almost perfect condition. That was pretty cool, eh? That is so cool. Like full bottle. Full bottle. Look at it. This special bottle protects the delicate fruit flavor and fresh taste. Um, I just did a quick Google and I don’t know if it’s the exact one, but there was an orange crush bottle from 1920. Oh, wow. Yeah, which is kind of cool. And this there’s like no chips or nothing. Huh. So cool. Nice. Did you find me something? Oh, a piece of glass. Oh, thank you, baby. Get it, babe. Get it, poop. Another good one. Another one. Wow. These are all just underground treasures. So many treasures. Video title, digging our [Music] grave. Ready? [Music] Yeah. [Music] Okay. Wow. That was crazy. Yeah. Now we got a big mess here. Wait, what’s that? What? Don’t move. No freaking way. Is that the sole of a shoe? Oh my god. It’s a little kid’s shoe. That’s crazy. That’s creepy. Isn’t that creepy? Yeah. A little Oh my gosh. Look at it. It’s got like the stitching in the back of it. Oh, wow. So, it’s the insole. It’s the insole of somebody’s shoe. Look at that. Well, I hope the ghosts aren’t upset with us. [Music] And now the [Music] boot. You got to do another one [Music] there. I think we did this right. I hope so. I guess we’ll find out soon. [Music] So, we’re battling some questionable weather today. So, we’ve already been hit with our first rainstorm. Hopefully, we don’t get another one. And we got our first little waterfall step, I guess, dug. So, I think what we should do is dig the next one. Okay. We can fold this liner up and and frame in that. Okay. And then lay this liner. Well, we’ll lay that lay this liner in here. We’ll frame that. Frame this. This will be dug. We can kind of start it. And then we’ll know how much liner we have left for up there. Like, why don’t we bring it out to like here? Okay. Let’s mark it. Let’s Let me move the machine. I might have to dig this more. I don’t know yet. Okay. But I kind of wanted water to spill like that and then come around this side of that. So it’s like So there’s like a bigger rock here, a small one, small one, and then the big ones. You know what I mean? So it kind of splits it. This will basically be the stream, right? Cuz it will have rocks on either side. Okay. Or even if it goes this way, like that direction. And then we’re going to have to have a rock here and then a boulder and a boulder. Like it’d be good if the stream kind of went like this. We did another waterfall right here. Right. So it’ be that and then a boulder and a boulder. Okay. Looks like a giant, doesn’t it? It does. Jeez. This angle. Wow. Okay. You want it to like end like here though, right? Yeah. Okay. Good. Yeah. Cuz I want to see that’s where the last fill will be. Good. Good. Cuz that rock’s going to sit like this. And then we’re going to have a boulder here. So like Oh, beautiful, bab. Like that. Perfect. And then So I think what I’ll do with the machine right away. Yeah. Is dig this line. Yeah. [Music] basically cuz like that’s where I don’t know. I’m getting all like nervous. You There’s nothing to be nervous about, babe. If we take too much dirt, we just add more dirt in. Yeah, that’s what they do on the thing anyway. Yeah. It’s all rock. Yeah, they back fill behind the liner. Put the liner back. Yeah. I think you’re thinking too hard about like the movement of the water, like how it’s got to flow when it’s going to flow however it wants to. That’s true. [Music] Like I wonder if I should use the back comb more. There’s a lot to dig still. I know. Cuz this is the height here. Like all that’s got to come out. [Music] So much easier. [Music] like both sheets. Yeah. So, what we’re going to do, this just can just sit like that. That’s totally fine. Yeah. If you want to just get it straight. Okay. Now, we’ll get the liner. Okay. And we’re going to do the same thing. And we’re just going to hang it over into the pond. So fun. Okay. I’m going to take my coat off. [Music] It’s like doing the pool liner again, eh? Oh, yeah. Just to get this wrinkle out. There we go. We might have to start with a small armor stone. Yeah, because we need to be able to fit a boulder beside it here because it has to be higher to d to divert the water in there. Okay, baby. So, here’s the thing. You need a rock and then a bigger one beside it. Okay. So, like do you want that first rock though to be one of these? Cuz you do have a small one. You could do one like this. How it kind of falls comes out farther. Maybe I need to stand one of these up. Yeah. In the against that bulkhead thing. Okay. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Right. Okay. But is that is that a spider? Yeah. Is that too tall? I think it’s fine, love. Cuz I was thinking this is going to go beside that thing. Okay. Is that Does that make sense? Yep. That sounds nice. For sure. Sure. We’ll try. Like I I don’t want to stress myself out already and I kind of am. So, hold that like that. Okay. Let’s see what we can do. [Music] Okay. [Music] I was thinking that. Okay. But now I don’t know. That looks good cuz it looks It’ll look cuz then I can get another stone in here. Mhm. But see this gap? Yeah. Like What if that was like that? [Music] Right. But why would it be like that? Because all the water is going to go here. I know that, but like that doesn’t look natural either to have it like purged up like that. Okay. I don’t know if like if this will mess up your vision, but shouldn’t this kind of go over there and then this be like more of a flat thing and then just like a smaller one here? Okay. So, should we move it out of here? Uh or even just like to over there. That’s a pretty shape. Is it? Yeah. What would you do with it, though? [Music] We got the first three pieces set off camera. There was a little bit too much pressure with the camera, I think. So, we were able to get a big piece and then two little ones which came from our rock pile. And they It’s like they were meant to go there. I got to stop overthinking it. You’re going to do great, babe. But I think it’s it’s going to work out. Yeah. [Music] Okay. 1 2 3. Okay. Okay. [Music] I don’t know. I’m not sure about that. I thought it was much bigger. Bring it down. So heavy, eh? It is so heavy. [Music] Yeah. Do we have room for a Cuz we need a boulder on both. It’s I It’s just not looking how it’s I don’t think I Cuz Turn it Turn that off. It’ll talk cuz we’re going to We want this to turn this way anyway, right? A little bit. Mhm. Like I feel like that shelf should have been the same size as this cuz we have so much space to work with here. Mhm. Like it’s so nice, right? Okay. Um we could put a boulder on either side of it and then we can put the little one you want and then another boulder and then just kind of do this however we want. The big piece and then the boulder with the peak and then your little stone here for it to pour. It’ll split on that and do both. What? This is so funny. We’ll put a boulder in this corner then. Okay. Like maybe something with a point. So, you want two points? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. So, let’s find a nice big one. I wasn’t recording when Andrew goes, “Okay, now we can get creative.” Mr. Creativity. Not buy the book at all. Yeah, [Music] baby. Okay, bring it [Music] down. Good. Perfect. Perfect. [Music] That looks so good. That looks amazing. So [Music] good. Right now, I’m just trying to make sure that these rocks that are going to be the waterfall are somewhat level and all the rocks are kind of tight together. What we’re going to do next is we’re going to flip the liner back and we’re just going to kind of back fill the areas where uh where there is no rock just so that the dirt and liner is tight against all of these [Music] boulders down. [Music] Wo! It’s kind of cool, right? That’s kind of the perfect spot, babe. Yeah, I picked it last night when I was scavenging. [Music] [Music] [Music] Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. [Music] the splash zone. What do you think of that? Funny, isn’t it? Kind of cool looking. Yeah. [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh, there’s tons. Okay. Like or lots of hose and lots of liner cuz that’ll just go like this. This has lots there. You This we’re going to put kind of like that, right? Yeah. I think an angle would look good for the view. [Music] So this is the spillway that came with the kit we bought. Um, basically what it does is you put your hose that comes from your pump into the back of it and that pumps the water from your water vault, your aqua blocks from the bottom and it comes through here. And you can see there’s like a diverter in there to stop the flow a little bit so it doesn’t like shoot out like a fire hose like it disperses it nicely. What you want is you want to make sure that it’s level side to side and you want to make sure that the back is higher than the front just by like a quarter of a bubble on your level. Like doesn’t have to be super sloped. Um just enough so that water keeps flowing. From what I’ve seen online, there’s two ways that you can actually kind of install this on the top. I’m sure there’s 10 ways, but I saw two ways. Either you sit it on a rock like this and then you have to kind of disguise it, like put stuff in front of it to hide it. um which can be done, but there was another way I saw that I kind of really liked where you place it about an inch below your top boulder here and then with your extra liner, you kind of make like a kiddie pool kind of thing around it so that the water when it comes out, it pools and then it runs over naturally and you don’t actually see where it comes from. Cuz this you can just fill with more rocks after. What we’re using for this is a combination of well three different stones. The big round boulders, they’re granite boulders that we purchased. And then these kind of dark gray ones, they’re armor stone, guillotineed armor stone. Um I actually don’t know what kind of stone it is. It was suggested for a waterfall. It was suggested for that. Yeah. And then these random small little ones you see are actually ones that we dug up from all over our property from the renovations we’ve been doing. So it’s kind of cool to be able to incorporate them. [Music] I have the pump here. It’s the Aquacape Pro 2,000 to 4,000 uh gallon per minute, whatever it it means. Um it works. You can download the app. It works on Wi-Fi. You can actually turn it up and turn it down. And that’s why it goes from 2,000 to 4,000. Um, there’s like a low and a high speed. Like it’s a varial speed uh pump. I got the check valve on here so that no water gets checked back in, you know. Yeah. And that works out the exact height you need, too. Wow. It sits down in there. If you remember, this little boot thing got dug like 6 in lower than the aqua blocks. And that’s so that um if the water starts getting low, it’s always drawing it from the lowest spot. Um so yeah, that’s where it sits. 2-in line goes in and runs up behind there. Comes out or this wire, plenty of cord for it to go plug in. You okay? Yeah. And now I’ll grab the 2-in line. We’ll just shove dry fit in there. Run it up. Red hot blue glue PVC pipe cement. Christies. I’ve never used this before. This is what the kit came with. That sounded like you were gonna recite a poem. Didn’t come with primer if anyone’s asking. That’s weird. Eh. Yeah. This reminds me of when we renovated the pool. It’s the same glue. I think you got to hold it for a while because it You want me to hold it? Yeah. Okay. So, here’s the spillway that we were talking about. It has two big gaskets and then a locking kind of nut and then this union that threads in there and then your hose gets well your PE your pipe gets glued in there. So, the reason you have two gaskets is because um you cut a a hole in your liner, you fold it up, slide it in, and then the gasket goes on the other side of the liner. So you basically basically sandwich it and then you tighten it with this. [Music] So, this is the foam we’re using. It’s pond and waterfall foam sealant. It pretty much you just fill the gaps where you don’t want the water to go and it kind of helps direct it to where you do want it to go. Um, tack free in 30 minutes. But apparently the stuff I’ve watched online, you use it and then when it’s still wet but not super sticky, you push it down to kind of like mush it a little bit so it’s not as big. And you can like stick rocks to it. You can stick if you have moss, you can stick moss to it to kind of disguise the foam. So, I’m going to do in here because I don’t want the water to fall over the side. I want it to just run over here. So, I’ll try [Music] that. It’s going to flood. Look, it is flooding. Okay. It’s all coming out underneath you. Oh no. Cuz of the rain. It’s overflowing our foundation. I’ve said this many times throughout this video. This is one project that I have never done before. I have no experience doing this kind of thing. But I running out because it’s overflowing cuz it rained. But I love challenging myself and learning new things. So here I am. And if you also love learning new things and challenging yourself, I would highly recommend Skillshare. Skillshare is the largest online learning community where you can browse through a range of classes such as woodworking, gardening, and even personal development. As many of you know, I love Skillshare and have used it to learn new skills and improve the quality of my videos. 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You might might not have saw it on camera, but to me when you’re sitting on the pathway, it almost looked like a well, like three stones all like making a big circle with a little bit of gravel in the middle. So, I’ve decided to take that out and I added another one here to bring this up. I can cover this in gravel and basically fill it to this height. You can see right there, that’s the height of the water when the reservoir is completely at its max capacity. So, I’m going to fill it with gravel on both sides of the liner. How I have it folded up and then it’ll cover the liner so you don’t see it. And it’ll look like the waterfall comes, dumps in there, and then it just actually disappears cuz there’s no like big rocks in front of it. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Can Can you We could place these kind of like just like the big ones, whatever. But like now it’s like it fall like Let me turn it on. Okay. Oh, no. We don’t want it for the video. We’ve never turned it on before. You guys are going to see it for the first time at the end of this video. And we’ve never seen it either. Should I turn it on or no? No, don’t turn it on. They haven’t. It ruins the surprise. Frig, I’ve never had it on. So, just kidding. We’ve never run it before. And if you saw it on my Instagram story about a week ago running, that was from rain. It was fake. There’s AI. Yeah. Just wherever. [Music] Next on the agenda is working on the landscaping over here. What’s your vision for right here? What I thought cuz like right now it’s just kind of a square edge is to just have it curve up out of this. So like this that would be garden area. Yep. With like boulders mixed in kind of. I think we kind of have to to retain the soil. Maybe I’ll grab my orange paint and we can just kind of mark even up there what we’re kind of thinking. Okay. Good. Like what are you thinking? I think like it’s not going to be straight, right? Like follow this natural kind of like Yeah. I want to like kind of seamlessly blend. So like kind of like this is just rough. Okay, that looks good to me. [Music] Wait, that’s right. [Music] 1, two, three. Okay, that’s good. And then yeah, even if we dug this out more to make it more of like a kind of like a a slope. Oh, baby. Should we include the liner with it? Sure. Cuz it’ll never be this high. No, it won’t. I’m just wondering if if the liner should stay on the inside of that rock. Put it on the inside. I really don’t think it matters, babe. I don’t think then do it, babe. I don’t think it matters either. [Music] Just do it, babe. You sure? Yeah. too brave. [Music] I don’t know. I think that I have to do it this way. This it is this is important. We have it like this, right? Water’s just going to pull there when it rains. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That’ll be good. And then you just stick it in there. And then we’ll back fill around [Music] it. Is that flatish? How’s that? Perfect. [Music] Oh, that will fit perfect like that. Let’s see. Yeah, that’s pretty good, eh? Does it look weird? Looks good to [Music] me. Baby, would you want to switch? [Music] down. Get out of [Music] here. Now dump [Music] me. One, two, three. Okay. Oh, baby. It was a joke. One, two, three. [Music] What do you think? That is a nice boulder. Just dig it in so that this sits right on the grass. That’s It’s nice, baby. I like that one. You got to look from all angles, too. Okay. And you it’ll it’ll be in the ground probably another like four or five inches, right? Just drop it in. [Music] Oh, I found you a good one. You did? Oh, wow. [Music] Bring it down. [Music] Nice. A little more. Little more. Bring it down. That’s not bad. Yeah, that [Music] works. Bring it down. I’m getting tired. Me, too. This is a lot more than we had planned. Last one. We’ll probably just get this corner. Nice and flat under there. Yep. My fingers. [Music] greasing the loaders. The most important thing, make sure that they’re well lubricated. Ew. We’re like looking like a K Cabota dealership on the front lawn. I know. This one is ours. This one is a friend’s. It’s all lubricated. It’s okay, babe. We’re getting ready to start the landscaping. So, we need to remove the grass. So, I have the and I’m going to dump it in there and then dump it over there. We’re going to do that all around where we’re going to have our garden. So, hopefully it goes quickly. [Music] Tractor [Music] POV bullet. No, it’s a pine cone. My finds are a joke to you. It’s not a joke. Don’t you see the value of history? Yeah, of course. I love cleaning up other people’s [Music] garbage. Pretty dec. [Music] No, like in the sun. I’m going to go get sunscreen. I’m going to dump it there, right? Yeah. Like I’ll dump it here. Okay. And we’ll just grade it all away from that back section just as best we can. I’m going to dump it. We can rake it. I couldn’t get that grass out from underneath that rock. Yeah. And I don’t want grass growing up against it. What do you think I can do? Is it even going to see the sun? No. Let’s just dump it and go. And then we’ll just kind of keep this up because I’m going to put fill that top of that with gravel and into there after. And maybe we can put like something to cover it more. Get in the freaking tractor. And then I’m going to And then [Music] So you want me to just spread this out? I’ll show you. [Music] What was that? What? [Music] Do I still have some in the bucket? Yeah. [Music] How is it? It’s good. Really good. So fun to see it taking shape. Oh, yeah. like all becoming one thing. [Music] Yeah. Lower it down there. Go check it out from down below. It looks a little random right now. It might be okay though once it gets plants and stuff. Let’s leave it and we’ll work around it. We are going to finish this waterfall today. We have our collection of plants. This area we got from our local garden center. This area is from landscape direct. I’ll tell you what we’re working with. Actually, tell them what we have here. Beautiful panagle hydrangeanger here. No, this is going to take too long. So sleeping that for sure back there. 15 to 20 cm tall and 30 cm [Music] wide. Where do we need more white? Maybe here. Should we move that rock? I would personally prefer it to be right here. Well, it does look a little odd, but we’ll move it. Or even like if this kind of came out a little further and then that spills this way and then that will be like compact still and then that spills that way. That’s pretty. And then we’ll add rocks in to like kind of merge the two spaces together. So, I was thinking that like the juniper maybe needs to like come down here top of the rock cuz then it’ll spill onto the rock. The white cone flowers would be pretty in here with a hosta off the back cuz then it’ll grow like tall with like this but then also like taper down if you do a hosta on the outside. I mounted it at the back a little. Mhm. Cuz I thought maybe just have it lean forward a tiny bit. Okay. Like like that. Yeah. We’re also opting not to use landscape fabric. We’re not really landscape fabric people. Well, no. Like the landscape fabric is a nightmare. It doesn’t belong in a flower bed. Salam. Oh, he’s like kind of leaning the wrong way. That way. Yeah. Oh, here you go. Hey, what’s that? Oh, it’s a rock. What’ you think it was? I thought it was a dish. Oh. [Music] That’s better now. Much better, babe. [Music] rapid fire. Everything we planted a little white thing that’s going to spill everywhere. Little juniper. Some beautiful coral bells. Hookra. Ceone flowers. White ones. Uh hosta. More cone flowers. More hookra. bleeding hearts, which may not survive out here, but that’s okay. Hydrangeanger, grasses, sedum, dwarfs, goat beard, cone flowers, more cone flowers, hostas, more juniper, more hookra, more um creeping jenny, which is going to spill into the waterfall. I want this whole place to fill in full of flowers. Like, I want it to look like a little wildflower thing. Um, but this is a nice start. Oh, do you want to tell them about what you fixed over here? So, let’s theoretically say that we’ve ran the waterfall, everything works great. We cut the three shelves on a slope back so that the water would pull a little bit, but then when it gets to the bottom, it’s just going to fall through the rock and there’s no water there. It just kind of like ends. What I’ve done is I pulled the gravel back and then we had some extra liner that we cut off in certain areas. I set a little like uh bowl basically just so that when water pours down there it will actually kind of sim be similar to those so it doesn’t look like this is all just gravel. There’s going to be a little bit of water sitting there as well. So it’ll look a lot nicer. So now next step all the plants are in. We can start with lighting. So these are the lights that we chose. They’re from Amazon. They had good reviews. But they’re LED. They’re warm white. They got the little uh hat top kind of look to them and they’re aluminum. They’re not plastic, which is kind of hard to find on Amazon. They’re aluminum and even the ground stakes are aluminum. And these screw into these. They don’t just sit on it like most. And then the lights screw on too. So, it’s super like sturdy. So, yeah, we’ll stick them in. They get wired with a transformer. Do you have a vision for where you want these? Not a clue. Okay. I kind of have a little vision. So, I was thinking one right here, like one around here. Now, for reference, lights that look very similar to this were on sale. Well, not on sale. They were for sale at the place where we bought all of the components for this pond. And they were like $190 per light. This was a set of four. How much was this, babe? 70 bucks, I think. 70 bucks Canadian, which is a steal considering they are aluminum and not plastic. Oh, I love those. Yeah, they’re quite nice. Well, if they look bad at night, at least they look good during the day. Now, we got to do the the water ones. Oh, fun. The ones we went with are kind of like the bullet style. It’s not the uplighting. It It’s kind of like a what what would you call a spotlight style? The kit came with two of these lights, a three-way splitter, so it can have up to three lights on it, an extension cable, and the transformer that has like the daytime like when it goes dark, it turns itself on. If we had it like this kind of shining at the cave. Oh yeah, that that’s a good idea. You almost need to do this at night time. Eh, like to Well, what? We can just place them and then we’ll tweak them. We are using cedar mulch instead of black mulch. We used cedar mulch last year for the front back here. And it smells good, it looks good, it doesn’t fade the way black mulch does. It doesn’t have all the weird dyes. That’s the main thing, right? Yeah. So that it doesn’t fill the pond with black water. Right. [Music] We’re also saving this spot for a tree of sorts. Little Japanese maple or something when they get marked down for the season. [Music] [Music] [Music] Okay, baby. What do you think? It’s absolutely unbelievable. It’s better than I ever could have imagined. So good. I’m tearing up again. Like it is insane. It looks so good. The way to finish like looking at the house was looked finished. We thought it was done, but now like you look at that. Oh man. And that was kind of a dream project, too, because we’d always wanted to put a waterfall there. And now sitting on the porch, you can just enjoy it. Come see, buddy. Yeah. I had no idea that that’s how it would turn out. Like I did so much research and I looked at so many like inspiration pictures, but you no yard is the same. Like the slope, the great like it was so hard to like visualize it cuz usually I can visualize things to build, but something like this, I had no clue what it would look like. I knew a general idea of what I wanted, but I had no idea how to achieve it. Yeah, it looks amazing. Babe, high five. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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