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larvae…

16 Monday Jun 2025

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this morning I finally got around to sorting out a working pump for the bathtub pond…

I had switched the two pumps between the main pond and the bathtub, but not long after that change the pump in the tub stopped working completely…

and because there are no fish in that pond, the chance of mosquito larvae growing in it was a problem…

happily, the first extra pump I came across worked, although it didn’t have a piece extending out of the water… luckily that doesn’t matter as the water just needs to move to ensure no larvae can survive…

hopefully this one will continue to work…

happy to get that job off the list…

poured…

03 Monday Jun 2024

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the bathtub pond has been running for enough days that it was time for the last goldfish to come out from their small condo in the house…

put a large rock in the pond so they could hide under it, added water from the pond to a bucket, and went into the house to catch them…

lucky for me, it didn’t take too long to collect the four of them…

brought them outside and left them in the pail to acclimatize for about twenty minutes and then poured them in;-)…

they went straight for the hiding place, lol…

perfect…

20 Saturday May 2023

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Friday was a beautiful semi-warm and sunny day…

I spent some time reading on the upper deck and when it warmed up a bit I found the screws for the hammock, removed the umbrella, laid the whole thing down, and attached all four legs tightly… put everything back together and then added a couple of cushions to the hammock chair and it is now perfect;-)… I may have had a short nap in it while taking a break from reading…

I am very happy as the shape of this chair is much more comfortable than the previous one… I think it will get more use, but we shall see…

a little later, I used the fishnet in the bathtub pond to clean out all the dead water hyacinths from last year… then I brought out the wet-vac and sucked out the dead leaves and water… next I put together the pieces for the new pump and set it into the pond… after filling it up, turned on the pump and it worked… yay…

now it is burbling nicely…

feels like I got quite a bit done;-)…

stability…

09 Thursday Jun 2022

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today’s project was getting the bathtub pond emptied, cleaned, filled, and the pump going…

I used the wet vac and it took a while, but eventually the tub was empty…

I brought out the pump and filter from the basement and put a large rock in it for stability… last year it kept falling over as the water rose… looks like a great fix…

sprayed it down and filled it with water… turned on the pump, and away it went…

I found a large round piece of Tyndall stone and set a basket with some pond grasses into the pond…

it looks good and sound excellent…

after it was all done and I was reading, a bunny friend had snacks and then stretched out for a rest under one of the chairs…

another beautiful day to enjoy…