15 Thursday Feb 2024
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spent some quality time with the fish over the last few days;-)…
pumps were scrubbed out and tank glass was cleaned…
I have started to feed them every other day to see if they might eat some of the algae on the rocks…
not sure if they are mad at me or not, lol…
24 Friday Jun 2016
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up early, took a walk to the Park, and had breakfast and a walk through the Gardens with a friend…
arrived home about the same time as my grandson… we worked in the garden for hours…
mowed, dug, planted, weeded… ended up with a lot of yard waste…
ran out for lunch with my daughter and son-in-law and then back to work… pulled out tons of string algae from the pond…
then we tackled one of the front flower beds… we cut down just about everything… I have to pick up something to deal with the grass and next week we will put down landscape cloth and mulch…
put some of the pots in it to get them out of the way for now…
after he left and I’d done a bit more weeding, I took a break and got to spend a few minutes enjoying how much better the space looks…
excellent day…
15 Wednesday Jun 2016
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arrived home, started dinner and checked out the garden while I was topping up the water in the pond… sadly it has a ton of string algae… going to have to put some peroxide in to see if that will get rid of it…
the Veronica blooms are taking over the garden… it looks wonderful…
got a nice close up…
these little white flowers are very happy but for the life of me I can’t remember their name…
and finally the daisies were blooming…
they are my older daughter’s favourite and I get to see her tomorrow so it was fun to see them…
27 Tuesday May 2014
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last year the pond had some serious algae growing in it…
the landscaper who built the pond was here late in the fall and suggested a uv filter to deal with the problem…
so, I’ve been doing some research and calling various places to find one…
I thought it just got tossed into the pond and did its thing, but not so…
I spoke with one of the owners of Pet Traders and he came out to see if the filter he had would work…
then I had to be in touch with the pond folk to be sure they thought it would work too…
finally everyone agreed and I purchased the filter and it is going to be installed tomorrow…
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