At 07:14 PM 9/30/98 EDT, you wrote: >My sister rents a house. She bought a small pond big enough for gold fish and >has totally transformed a little side area into something absolutely charming. >I think you can have a pond almost anywhere at minimal cost. She found a >discount outlet instead of going through your basic suppliers. The cost was >less than $300 including pump, fish, plant material. She put it in herself >and used beach stone to edge the pond and blend it into the grass. Put in a >couple of comfortable chairs and a garden backdrop in kidney shaped design. >She put in a crushed stone walkway between the garden and the pond. The >crushed stone she got from me for free. There you have it. Chris from >Braintree, MA Zone 5 > You, uhh, crush stone for a hobby? Or is Braintree where the pen is for MA? ;-) We have to buy rocks of any kind down here, nearest ones are about a mile straight down. George