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Do It Yourself  -or-  To Have It Done?
That Is the Question!

So you've finally decided that you want to have a water garden in your backyard. That decision has been made. You'd love to come home from the J.O.B. to your very own naturalistic vacation paradise to relax, enjoy with your better half, your kids, neighbors, and friends.

A PLACE TO ESCAPE, to breath deeply, to kick back and get away from it all, if only for 20 or 30 minutes. There's no question about this right? But there's still one question left in your mind. You're in a quandary over whether or not you should

    Do it yourself, or...
    Have it done by someone else?

It's a dilemma. I mean you're a rugged individual- a regular red blooded John Wayne, ride off into the sunset with the leading lady kind o' guy. Is there any real reason why you couldn't or shouldn't do this thing all by your lonesome? Your own way? No interference? Well lets just think this over. Maybe there are just a few.

Top 10 Reasons to Hire a Professional...

1. In your day job you're a business tycoon, you're used to running your own corporation. But you're NOT A WATER GARDEN INSTALLER!
   
   
2. You're 42 years old and 30 lbs. overweight and you haven't bee near the health club in many months and this is PHYSICAL LABOR!
   
   
3. When you consult outside of you day job you get $75/hr. And you can have this job done for $50/hr. So when you look at it this way, YOU'RE LOSING MONEY!
   
   
4. But you'll save two or three thousands bucks by doing it yourself, right? That's what your spouse says anyway. But in the last point, we decided for absolutely certain you'd be loosing money. So who's right? Right?
   
   
5. You know that a well train crew of five can whip this job into shape and really right in ONLY ONE DAY! You know down deep in your heart it will take you at least four weekends. And you'd still have to carefully read every instruction in the book and follow it to the letter. and you'd still be just hoping to get it right. I mean, think about the last time your spouse talked you into "doing it yourself". You ended up calling in the professional who had to clean up your mess before he could get started anyway.
   
   
6. Impressing your spouse and kids with your ability to multi-task gets lower and lower on your list as you consider all the possibilities.
   
   
7. Impressing your neighbors, the Joneses, with your ability to multi-task or anything else, has never enjoyed a position of priority in your life.
   
   
8. Your 9 year-old son who loves to play in the mud, provides you with all the fishing worms you'll ever need.
   
   
9. You're not a sado-masochist!
   
   
10. But what the heck would John Wayne do? What would Clint Eastwood, or Bruce Lee, or Rambo, or General Schwarzkopf, or Arnold Schwarzenegger do?
    
    

I'll tell you what they'd do.
    THEY'D HIRE A PROFESSIONAL TO DO THE JOB. THAT'S WHAT THEY'D DO!

Now these boys (John, Clint, etc.) are all rugged individual for sure. But they aren't stupid, right?

On the Other Hand...

On the other hand, maybe this description doesn't fit you. What if you're not the rugged individualist, conservative business tycoon described previously? What if you're a naturalist, who has always loved the outdoors, loved critters, loved the fresh air and the colors in the sunset? What if you're really most comfortable in construction boots and jeans, shorts and a T-shirt? You're in good physical shape and can handle a shovel and a wheelbarrow. And you get a real kick out of doing something yourself, like building an incredibly beautiful, natural, organic, holistic water garden. What then?

If that's truly the case, then you need to consider a different line of thought.

The Top Ten Reasons to Do it Yourself...

1. You aren't too terribly concerned with saving money, as long as you're having a good time.
2. When you consult, you consult, you only make $50/hour, so it's a wash any way.
3. You're not challenged when it comes to reading directions.
4. You don't care if you get it done in one day or one summer. After all, you're having a good time.
5. Who the heck are the Joneses anyway? They wouldn't know a good time if it hit 'em between the eyes with a two by four!
6. You really can't think of a better way to burn calories.
7. You enjoy physical challenges and you look good in a sun tan, too!
8. You love planning, tinkering with, and designing things. So weather you get it right the first time or the forty-first time is fairly inconsequential.
9. You take great genuine pleasure in creating something of beauty with you won two hands, and having others enjoy it as well.
10. Your spouse expects you to build a water garden! (You really don't have to confess to this one out loud, or anything like that.)

Now if this latter description fits you, then go ahead and have at it. You'll do just fine. It make take you a week, maybe two. And you may be fiddling around with it all summer. But you're the one who will enjoy the process immensely. That means that you are in effect, a pond installer!

Welcome to the club.

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