If someone would have asked me 20 years ago how to replace a pump in a waterfall I would have told them I hadn’t a clue. Being a single mother for a span of years has served me well. I replaced the pump in a waterfall in my backyard a couple of years ago and I had more than a clue, I had a working knowledge of how to replace a water pump and I did an excellent job of it.

If someone would have told me this year I would be redoing the pond that was attached to my waterfall I would have told them to take a flying leap. My ex-husband did things like that, I didn’t. In fact when we were living in our house he built a lovely waterfall in our backyard. It was truly a beautiful addition to our backyard.

A few years ago I hired a company to design and install a flower garden in my backyard. I really liked the guy who ran the company because he had an artistic sense about landscaping. We worked well together. At first I just wanted a flower garden. Then I told him I wanted something which would catch some of the run off of water from my neighbors. The middle of my backyard had a tendency to be a swamp so he said he would put a dry river bed in.

I got to thinking and I thought if we are going to have a dry river bed then I may want a waterfall with a tiny pond in my backyard. So he built me a waterfall also. It was beautiful but the pond of the waterfall just had a liner and some rocks in it. The rocks always fell to the middle of the pond, exposing the black liner.

This week my son is home visiting from college. I needed some help with the backyard. I hadn’t even done anything back there all spring and summer. Some of my flower gardens were overflowing with weeds. So my son and I spent a couple of hours out in the backyard the other day. I couldn’t believe how much we got done. After I cleaned out my flowerbeds I went shopping for flowers and didn’t find a thing I could afford. So I decided to mulch the flower beds until I could afford flowers and instead of spending money on flowers I decided to spend money on mortar to set the rocks in place in the pond. It only cost 15$ for the mortar and the trowel. I already had a couple of bags of mulch so I didn’t even need to buy mulch.

I have never worked with mortar or cement. That was something my ex-husband did well. I haven’t a clue how to work with mortar but I know I can learn and with my son helping me I anticipate that we will complete the project with no difficulty. For like the waterfall that flows water into a pond, some of the good qualities of my ex-husband have flown freely into his children.