It's a C-ment pond. Yes it is large, another case of my Champagne appetite getting the best of my beer pocketbook. I use plants, biological and mechanical filters to keep it clean. Chlorine would kill plants and fish and make it a pool which would make my taxes go up. This is a picture of 1 of 3 biological filter. The water goes through mechanical filter into bottom of basins and feeds bacteria in gravel that feed plants and waterfalls back into pond oxygenating water for fish. There are 5 waterfalls that provide a wonderful background music in the evening sitting by pond. The water in this pond gets to 91F in summer. It draws a lot of animals and birds in that feast on my Kio. I made this heron cutout because herons are territorial and won't come in if there is another heron nearby. This heron apparently didn't read that article nor does he believe my attack fish sign. I even have bullfrogs in there. I have no idea how they make the trek though the desert to find this place but they do. They draw in snakes which I have already have too many of. This is a 4 foot Mojave Rattlesnake, probably the most deadly snake in the US. The pond also draws in Colorado River Toads (now called Sonora Desert Toad). They are poisonous to small stupid animals and hallucinogenic. I cannot verify that last fact but Oscar seen below can. He once grabbed one and went immediately crazy. I shoved a hose in his throat and gave him a Benadryl and he seemed ok but shaky. I thought all was well till I found him later that night on computer downloading Jimi Hendrix songs with my credit card and rocking out. Oscar is a small mutt with a Napoleonic complex that wandered in about 4-5 years ago and decided to stay. Two nights ago at 11pm Oscar got territorial and stupid with a Bobcat and took 2nd place in showdown at pond. The vet is $600 richer and Oscar is home now. He's shaved, full of holes and stitches, and pretty sad looking but that's better than being someone's dinner.

My son, granddaughter and grandson just moved into a house we purchased as a rental...next door to hubby and I. At first, it was just my son, so we called it Mike's house..then my college-age grandson moved in, so we called it "the guys' house" which worked out fine until my ganddaughter moved in as well. So, we started calling it "the Shire"..I've GOTTA make a sign like yours and include an arrow point their direction! So cute!

Very cute signs! mmebrady, all you have to do is look for the "HTML" code by your pictures on Photobucket. Copy it and paste it into your message here. Usually if you click on it at Photobucket, it will automatically copy it. Then I like to click on "Ctrl V" to paste it in the message box. It will look like a bunch of gobbledygook here but once you do a preview of your message, you'll see the pictures themselves. Where do you plan to put your pretty signs? Heck, I even like our painted cardboard in the background! lol

Hey, I might steal the trespassers will be composted sign. I love decorating our yard for Halloween and I think that would fit right in with our creepy front yard designs. Thanks for sharing the funny signs all!