Just as the Patience Gives Out

According to assorted gurus, gardening is supposed to inculcate many of the skills needed for success in real ( not reel) life: careful attention, flexibility, patience etc. Just as my patience became as cracked as my stepping stone because of Tropical Storm Debbie's depredations, Mother Nature provides a gift. Actually, not Mother Nature, but a neighbor wearing a battered Gator hat and chain smoking Marlboros.The gift was a garage sale pond liner, four pumps, pond netting, a blue piece of brain coral AND a plastic castle. Total cost $10. Tomorrow at dawn, I shall sink the liner which I have already tested for water tightness and create my pond. The four pumps are a little off putting for someone whose pump wisdom relates only to breasts, but I have confidence that I can figure it out. Maybe??