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If I had a swimming pool, a pond or even a brook, I'd love to have a sculpture of the Loch Ness Monster to put in the center of it:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/loch-ness-monster-ordered-leav...

Or I might hire someone to sculpt the head of the Gillman, so I could have him peeking out of the water.

What creative thing would you do with a body of water if you had one?

Tags: art, creeks, monsters, pools, rivers

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Not very creative, but I would go skinny dipping!! (I actually did yesterday)

teebubbadee, taking a bath is not considered "skinnny dipping".

I skipped the bath michael cause I had already went skinny in the pool. :-)

I would have water lilies in the pond, along with a sculpture of the creature from the Black Lagoon.  :-)

I like to look at them but don't want one.   Had a built-in hot tub on the deck for a few years.   It was a pain in the  arse to keep up.   But it was really nice in the dead of winter...snow falling....quiet....warm....*sigh*.

glass bottom kayak

It might be fun to have a castle in the bottom.  Like being in a fishtank.

I always envision my quiet place as a stream running through a hanging valley (a little valley on the side of a hill) coming in as a waterfall and going out as a waterfall, but in the middle filling a rock-lined pool with a hot spring in it.  

It would be surrounded with trees and ferns and flagstones and boulders and wild flowers.  I don't imagine anything that looks particularly artificial.

If I were an orangutan at the zoo, it would be my habitat.

But more private.

There is a spot on the Jack's Fork River in southern Missouri that has a shockingly clear feed line, about 15 feet deep and so transparent that you could read a newspaper in it. It was impossible to glide over it without staring down into it's depths.

Some friends and I discovered it canoeing one time. When we got back to our camp that afternoon, I noticed that one of my friends, who worked as a messenger for various local businesses, had a few of those old canvas & leather bank bags in the trunk of his car. The kind that have heavy-duty zippers that can be held shut with a padlock. One was quite clearly marked with the name of a local bank.

So, the next day, we boated back to the same spot, but brought the messenger bag with the bank ID, loaded it up with rocks, zipped it closed and threw it into the clear spot. Then we beached our canoes, put up lawn chairs on the shore, cracked beers and watched for a couple of hours as other canoe-ers fell out of their craft swimming down after the submerged bag. They would come up yelling and waving the bag, get it onto the beach, unzip it and find the rocks, dump them out or just curse and throw the bag into the bushes. Once they'd left, we'd retrieve the bag and throw it back in. Cheap laughs for a pleasant summer day.

How I might pull off something similar in a home pool, without word getting around, isn't something I've given a lot of thought. Somebody, buy me an in-ground Olympic-sized pool and I'll get right on that.

Squirrelagator

I keep thinking about that bathtub in Scarface. 

If I had a pool I'd drain the water, fill it with good dirt and plant a garden.

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