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General => General info Somewhat hot tub related => Topic started by: Bonibelle on August 17, 2009, 10:19:52 pm

Title: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Bonibelle on August 17, 2009, 10:19:52 pm
Hey Zep...hope you read this because years ago I posted something about how my above ground pool just didn't fit with my nice new hot tub. You suggested that I pretty things in the yard up and somehow it would still look OK...Well finally..(about 2 years later), I have  completed my yard project. The view from my tub is pretty nice now because I fixed up my fish pond and had some hardscaping done too.

(http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/5719/goodpond.th.jpg) (http://img34.imageshack.us/i/goodpond.jpg/)

from the tub:

(http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3241/pondfromtub.th.jpg) (http://img89.imageshack.us/i/pondfromtub.jpg/)

(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/599/ponddeck.th.jpg) (http://img30.imageshack.us/i/ponddeck.jpg/)
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Vinny on August 18, 2009, 09:39:44 pm
Well, I'm not Zep but it looks very nice!
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Bonibelle on August 19, 2009, 10:00:41 am
Thanks Vinny,  I just meant that Zep was the one who suggested the improvements ...maybe to distract from the above ground pool!! :)
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: tanstaafl2 on September 29, 2009, 02:06:59 pm
Looks lovely but am I missing something? Like the aforementioned above ground pool? Is it no longer there?

Inquiring minds want to know!
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Dr. Spa™ Ret. on September 29, 2009, 03:13:05 pm
She did such a fine job, the pool blends in invisibly.
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Bonibelle on September 29, 2009, 05:04:39 pm
Haha...the pool is still there, just on the other side of the yard. It is not a focal point though because of the pond. And if I get my way, it will be bulldozed by next summer!!! >:(
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Zep on October 05, 2009, 11:25:46 am
Boni....it looks great....fine job.

btw...you said in the PM I said your yard looked "lousy"..I can't imagine I ever said that...come on Boni my Mom taught me better than that!....lol....I might have said you could dress it up a bit....but if I ever said your yard looked "lousy" I must have been drunk or something...anyway....Congrats it looks great.

Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Bonibelle on October 05, 2009, 12:30:10 pm
No no Zep, you didn't say it looked lousy, sorry if I said that. :-\ I was complaining that the tub and pool didn't fit together and you said that adding a few things and some landscaping would make the difference. So now I can view my pond and hardscaping from my tub and when people come up into my yard, the pond is definately what they are looking at..not that ugly pool.  That was a long time ago, but I remember how nice your yard and tub looked...and I think I said I wish mine looked nice to. ;)
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Bonibelle on October 05, 2009, 01:40:15 pm
I didn't save the IM that I sent to you, so I can't see exactly what I said...This new forum will not save your PMs out unless you check the box to save it.. :-\
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Zep on October 06, 2009, 06:31:32 pm
It's cool Boni....you're one of my favs anyways.

Hey but we gotta start trading landscape pics....it's almost pansy time in Texas.

Boni....here's my alley...2 doors down...after a storm last week.

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/ItsZep/Preston%20Fairways/Winter09002.jpg)
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Bonibelle on October 06, 2009, 08:33:33 pm
Oh my Zep...that's not a landscape picture..that looks like an insurance claim picture.
Here's a landscape..from my front yard...

(http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4112/bonisphonesiena053.th.jpg) (http://img200.imageshack.us/i/bonisphonesiena053.jpg/)
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Zep on October 07, 2009, 09:45:14 am
Thats awesome Boni....I don't have anything like that....still working on making that happen...but I do have a lion in my yard..lol.....here is my side yard.

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/ItsZep/Preston%20Fairways/AprilMayJune09083.jpg)
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Bonibelle on October 07, 2009, 10:52:56 am
I love it Zep. Check out my lion..it's a bit older than yours:

(http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7973/img1594t.th.jpg) (http://img245.imageshack.us/i/img1594t.jpg/)
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Zep on October 07, 2009, 11:32:43 am
dang Boni...where do live?...The Vatican?
 :D
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Bonibelle on October 07, 2009, 03:26:11 pm
Just teasing with you Zep. ;)...but you are amazingly close!!..These pictures were taken in Siena and Tuscany Italy.

Pictures from my front yard would have cows and goats and would not be nearly as pretty as where you are!!

Hopefully, someday my front yard will be in Italy!!
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Zep on October 07, 2009, 06:03:21 pm
Boni....this may be my backyard view one day....
this is my lake property and fishing dock....but I don't have a house on it.

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/ItsZep/Lake%20Fork%20Cabin/LakeFork.jpg)

Like to throw a log cabin like one of these on it one day....

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/ItsZep/Lake%20Fork%20Cabin/RetreatFront.jpg)

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/ItsZep/Lake%20Fork%20Cabin/01-1.jpg)

Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Bonibelle on October 07, 2009, 06:49:16 pm
Oh Zep that is a beautiful place. I bet the fishing is great too!!  Would you bring your hot tub if you moved there? Are the trees in the water cypress? I would be happy just camping there..it's so peaceful looking. 
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Zep on October 07, 2009, 09:59:16 pm
Boni...yep Lake Fork is one of the best fishing Lakes in Texas....holds the Texas State Record for Black Bass.

The trees are not cypress...thats a bit farther in east Texas....in fact that picture is a
few years old and many of the trees are now just stumps....makes for rough boating, but great fishing.

Here are pics from Caddo Lake on the TX/LA border. Caddo is full of cypress trees with spanish moss hanging down from the limbs, lots of lily pads,...quite beautiful....if it was closer to Dallas...Lake Caddo would be where I would spend my time.
(I think Caddo Lake is only 30-40 minutes from Terminator/EastTxSpa)


Me on Lake Caddo
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/ItsZep/Trips/Caddo2006028.jpg)

My brother on Lake Caddo....
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/ItsZep/Trips/Caddo2006029-1.jpg)

Me with some Caddo Black Bass (yes I threw them back)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/ItsZep/Trips/Caddo2006010.jpg)
Title: Re: Yard work, view from my tub
Post by: Bonibelle on October 08, 2009, 11:30:04 am
Wow beautiful Zep....