Thanks, everyone! You are all so kind. We had a man at church who was out of work to take the rocks out of the dry creekbed and to dig the creekbed out to make it wider and a little deeper in places so we would have more running water. The upper end is naturally higher than the lower end. As it turned out, he dug it too deep to have any water running and the sides too steep to keep the rocks from sliding back into the bottom. So, David and I had to remedy that problem. We bought cheap bags of soil (about a dollar a bag) and placed the bags (did not open the bags) in the bottom to raise the level back up and along the sides to create a gentle slope so that the rocks would not slide down. The clay that had been taken out had been wheelbarrowed and dumped into the woods. It was much easier to handle the bags of soil. Other than what the man did for us, we did the rest. We'd been better off to have done all the work, but he needed money and we could use the help. He has since gotten a good job. The ferns just came up there and have increased. The ferns were the perfect addition, Bobbi. In the summer there are reseeding impatience that come up along the upper end that add color.
