Here you can see the concrete being poured for the clubhouse. Once the concrete is down the guys go back and smooth out any uneven spots. Inside the clubhouse you'll find the check-in area, a general store, private owner's lounge, exercise room, kitchen, and a large event space with open-air doors that face the pool.

Now all the ponds are ready for water. The main pond will be divided by a land bridge. Water will flow from the smaller pond down into the main pond when everything is finished. Our project manager, Mason the dog, tested the pond water and gave his approval. Yes, we are a pet-friendly resort!

We've added a second pond. We decided to connect it to the main pond and let water flow from the smaller pond down to the larger pond. We'll build a small footbridge across the narrow part.

Here you can see us putting down the liner for the pond. Each end of the liner is stretched across a trench on either side of the pond - the trench will later be back-filled with heavy sand to secure it in place. Once the liner has been unrolled, we have to unfold the four 6 ft. sections that make it wider.

After we have a few sections of liner down, they need to be joined together. Here you can see the "hot shoe" in action - this machine acts like a very hot iron that melts the two pieces of liner together to form a watertight seal.






Once the pieces of the liner are sealed together, we bring out the skid loader and the bulldozer to fill the trenches with sand to secure the liner in place.






Presto! Our pond liner is now finished and we will start filling it with water next week

While we were putting down the liner for the pond, the septic tank and crane arrived. The pictures of the crane do not do justice as to how massive it is. It has to be - the two main pieces to the septic tank weigh 27,000 and 30,000 lbs.