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Cool patterns on the pond! Looks like coffee art lol
My guess: ice crystals form as separate tiny bits; then slight current from melting snow or a spring creates regions of rotating water. Then tiny ice crystals on surface are moved into curved patterns by the underwater mild vortex movements.
Andy Goldsworthy. nice one.
I built a house on a slab on the edge of a field at the bottom of a hill. I thought that it was far back enough from the hill, but no. I learned so much that first year. The ground froze solid and we had days of snow melt and pummeling rain. It was up to my front door and washing away my new driveway. I installed a culvert at the end of the drive and a ditch alongside the drive. I put a ditch at the base of the hill into the stream. And a swale in the middle of the field to block the water from entering the house if the first ditch filled or failed.
The only thing you can do is watch and have a couple of plans to hustle with in case things go downhill. I didn't have time to do the permaculture wait and watch thing. I built the house in January after buying in November.
It's good to see you making alterations to the system even with some wait and watch time under your belt.
I would like to see a packed or rock level spillway. I am concerned that my new pond doesn't have one yet either.
It's the outline of the creature who lives beneath….
very interesting
Question about your IBC totes for rain catchment. Do you only get food grade ones or do you believe that IBC's previously used for chemicals can be cleaned enough? If you do clean questionable IBC totes could you possibly make a video on that process if you have time please? Thanks for the content!!
Loving the shapes on the surface. Fascinating!
It's a lava lamp.
Interesting pttern of the ice
Must be so satisfying for yourself and Yuan after the work last year.. I’m delighted myself! Got lots Iv ideas from your notes as always. Thank you so much 😊🌱💚🙏✨
I have 3 suspicions.
Water is flowing into the pond from the ground by the peninsula.
The topography of the ponds bottom is making warm water from the edge flow to the middle at a few spots
May be related to the depth of the water and how high above water level the bank of the pond is. The peninsula seems to be the lowest bit of land directly adjacent to the water
That berm is sort of steep, let’s keep an eye on that. If you have extra soil or rocks, perhaps it could go there.
Nothing ’strongly wrong’ about it, but still I get a sense of brittleness.
The open barn is working wonderfiully
How deep is it? Is the pond permanent? Any underground springs? If so I’d definitely add some fish…
The shapes in the ice cover are lovely. Surface tension, convection movementsdue to temperature variants and density variants…. oh fluid dynamics are pretty hard to anticipate !!
I wish you would end with some music or a goodbye saying or something to let us know you're done before you cut to an ad. That way we can pause before the ad comes.
More wanders yes please
Can you show a plan of the property? I've watched many of your videos but still don't really have a clear idea of the plot. Cheers.
I've noticed in my ponds that always in the shallow parts the ice is thinner, thinking it's getting heat from the ground and freezing as much…
Often spotted on lakes, ponds, rivers and other slow-moving bodies of water, ice circles look like frost-coated lily pads floating on the water's surface. In actuality, ice circles occur when moving water forces ice to slowly rotate
I'd like to see some edible thickets planted in parallel around the ponds perimeters and contour, maybe edged with thinned logs, full sun (6+hrs)is important though for yeild and flavours, haskap should thrive in a thicket on that soil. Elderberry might shade and spread increasing management. Should be easy enough to wade the shallows and pitch water buckets to the side on occasion during dry times to obtain a decent enough yeild whatever you might go with though. Maybe also a poly planted spreading herbaceous system on the mounds towards the thickets, maintained with a simple bi annual scything or hedge trimming on contour at 8" for minimal management 'weeding' feeding soils. I'm doing a couple large swales this season of mint, chives, strawberry, with asparagus along side and rhubarb along opposing side, mainly while I wait a few years for the hardy kiwis to reach the overhead pergola latada solstisium I built with upcycled and thinned materials.
Love everything you do, thanks for putting out all the awesome content.
I would say add some large rocks in the pond to make hotter microclimatic zones around the pond, and also possibly as steps to enter to swim. The rocks getting sunshine will melt the water in their area sooner and allow for that section of the pond to open to air sooner even if the rest remains frozen, good for any birds or fish or amphibians or what have you in the boundary weather of winter/spring and fall/winter
what do you use to film? its great quality and the voice clarity all meets what you are getting across
Advancing nicely☺️ a cabin…..for Barry to live in 🤣 seriously this plot has come so far since I started watching your videos ☺️👌
Gnarly
The shapes within the pond are splendid! You all dug out the pond, then nature took over. Nature is amazing. I'm always in awe of it. Thank you for sharing.
Maybe if you drop for food colorant you can see if there is a curent creating these cool shapes
yes, please do another wonder!
I suspect the patterns in the water are thawing on the drip-line of the trees, which overhang the pond. I notice wherever you had a tree drip-line hang over the pond, the thawing pattern occurred. As soon as the sun comes out, the icicles on the bare branches would melt and drip into the pond. Subsequently, breaking the surface tension and spreading the accumulation of sun warmed water, to the centre of the pond.
It's also a pattern in nature, that the drip-line of trees, repels freezing/frost. It will freeze the soil eventually, but remains warmer than the surrounding earth and frozen water. I would say the combination of dripping water into the pond and resisting frost on the tree drip-line, is periodically displacing the freeze, thaw cycle in the water.
I wonder if, perhaps, the rays were simply caused by snow falling from the outstretched limbs above the very thin ice, then freezing back over.
From my observations, Water will freeze in a very unique way during a full moon. I took a picture of a jar of water that had frozen overnight outside one time. The bubbles within looked very dynamic and symmetrical. Several years later, after studying cosmological effects on different compounds (there are 2 distinct orthodox scientific papers reporting this, one from the 50’s and one from the 80’s), I had a thought: What if lunar phases affected the way Water froze?
I checked the date of the photograph, and sure enough it was taken the morning after a full moon.
This combined with flow dynamics could explain the appearance on the surface of the pond.
I do like the sea monster theory though…