{"id":139,"date":"2007-04-30T16:56:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T20:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/?p=139"},"modified":"2008-09-06T16:57:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T20:57:42","slug":"april-2007-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/april-2007-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2007 Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had another great turnout of 15-20 people for GWAPA&#8217;s April                2007 meeting at Kris Weinhold&#8217;s house in Columbia, MD. Two brand                new members showed up to this meeting, so welcome to them!              <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/april2007\/images\/10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Kris&#8217; 75G tank in the basement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The topic for this meeting consisted of Kris talking the group                through how he built his small raised brick pond in his backyard.                He described how he couldn&#8217;t find any other similar plans on the                Internet, so he merged the construction directions from a number                of sites for raised-brick flower beds and small garden ponds. Concisely,                his step-by-step guide consists of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lay cement foundation.<\/li>\n<li>Build wooden frame out of 2x4s as the main supporting feature                  for the pond.<\/li>\n<li>Fill in the frame with plywood, being careful to not have any                  sharp edges that could rip the pond liner.<\/li>\n<li>Lay sand in the bottom of the pond. Cover with pond liner.<\/li>\n<li>Around the wood frame, lay the brick fascade.<\/li>\n<li>At the top, finish off using 1&#215;6 or 1&#215;8 board to cover the top.<\/li>\n<li>Kris uses a solar-powered fountain pump to circulate the water                  in the pond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, the meeting ended with another huge &#8220;mini&#8221; auction.                The club had purchased a box of manzanita wood, which completely                sold out, so we will probably order more sometime this year. Additionally,                more folks signed up for our 2.5G aquascaping contest, which will                begin immediately after next month&#8217;s May meeting. See ya then!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/april2007\/images\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nLooking at Kris&#8217; raised-brick pond<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/april2007\/images\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nEveryone gathers in Kris&#8217; backyard to hear how he constructed his                pond.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/april2007\/images\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nOverhead view of the pond.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/april2007\/images\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nKris is pointing out something in the pond.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/april2007\/images\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nKris pulls out the solar fountain\/pump used to circulate the water.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/april2007\/images\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nEveryone gathers downstairs for the auction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/april2007\/images\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nRob explains the intricacies of Kris&#8217; tank.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/april2007\/images\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nKris&#8217; 40G tank.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/april2007\/images\/9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nKris&#8217; 20L tank.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/april2007\/images\/11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nKris&#8217; corner 54G tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had another great turnout of 15-20 people for GWAPA&#8217;s April 2007 meeting at Kris Weinhold&#8217;s house in Columbia, MD. Two brand new members showed up to this meeting, so welcome to them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}