25 Friday Nov 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, cream cheese, fish, food, Gimli Fish Market, Goldeye, happy, lunch, moments, shopping, smoked, treat, widow
I love smoked Goldeye and don’t have it too often…
yesterday, when I was out with a friend we stopped in at Gimli Fish Market and I was able to pick one up…
today, I made Goldeye cream cheese for the future and had Goldeye with cucumber and onion salad for my lunch…
delicious, what a treat;-)…
13 Thursday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, Fall, fish, garden, goldfish, leaves, moments, nature, plants, pond, tarp, weather, wetvac, widow
spent a good portion of Tuesday afternoon in the pond…
I removed the last of the water, by hand scooping, and then using the wet vac…
caught the last three small fish but only found two of the babies…
after that, I vacuumed up most of the leaves I could reach, and then covered the pond with a large tarp…
happy that it will catch the rest of the falling leaves and should make cleaning the pond in the spring much easier…
sadly, it doesn’t look exactly pretty, lol…
04 Tuesday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, garden, goldfish, grandson, moments, nature, pond, sneaky, water, weather, widow
my grandson came over to help with some garden jobs… he cut down baby elm trees, emptied rain barrels, and then spent a lot of time trying and catching the sneaky fish in the pond…
after a few minutes, we decided to pump out a good portion of the water, hoping it would make the catching easier, lol…
it did, a bit… the fish still found all the nooks and crannies amongst the rocks…
eventually he caught most of them and we are down to about six left… so far we haven’t been able to catch any of the babies…
later in the afternoon I sat on the bridge with my feet in the pond, not moving at all… after about fifteen minutes I gave up… not a single fish went by… the minute I stepped out they swam right past, lol…
02 Friday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bridge, creeper, family, fish, garden, grandson, moments, nature, Nestor’s, pond, shubunkin, tad, widow
Wednesday, the kids met us for breakfast and then came by to pick up a few items from the giveaway collection…
while they were here, they pulled down some wayward Virginia creeper along the garage and moved some unsightly cord off the pond bridge…
then they ran over to Nestor’s to get me a shubunkin to add to the pond… there weren’t any available, so they came home with this beauty…
which was a tad bigger than I expected, lol… they all seem to be getting on fine in the school so we are good;-)…
14 Thursday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, fish, garden, moments, nature, pond, raccoon, rain, squirrels, sunshine, turkey, weather, widow
had a good morning on Tuesday…
listened to house sparrows, chickadees and a few crows… I am just loving the sound ID on the Merlin app…
spotted the wild turkey that had been wandering the street yesterday, thanks to my neighbour knocking on the door…
and apparently the turkey frightened one of the neighbourhood bunnies…
there was no sign of the raccoons and the fish appear happy and all present… one of the biggest ones has been scraped up though… not sure if it was from the raccoon the night before last or from hiding under a rock, sigh…
the red and gray squirrels have been wandering around and threatening one another…
but the sun was out, except for a ten minute shower, and I was able to eat outside…
13 Wednesday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, fish, garden, hidden, moments, nature, pictures, pond, raccoon, treats, widow
something has been getting into the pond…
I hadn’t seen anything on the camera until a few nights ago, when the camera caught this…
the night view makes it a bit hard to recognize, but the rings on the tail were the confirmation that it is a raccoon… it didn’t appear that any fish had been caught…
I think the fish are being careful to stay hidden under the bridge…
on Sunday night they came by again and the camera caught them right in the pond…
I spotted one of the fish sort of wedged under a rock, so I moved the rock and the fish swam away… it looks a bit scraped up, so I hope it will be okay…
I put two chairs across the spot where I think they are going into the water and then sprinkled Epsom salts around the rest of the pond…
12 Tuesday Jul 2022
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Friday was another gorgeous day in the garden…
did some computer work outside and then read…
eventually, I climbed into the pond and removed some of the grasses growing in it to help me figure out if something is still getting into it..
while I was in there, I repositioned the pump and the rocks that sit on top of it…
looks pretty good…
my neighbour came over and we sat by the pond watching the fish while we shared some wine and snacks…
04 Monday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, dissuade, fish, garden, moments, motion, nature, plants, pond, Technology, water lilies, widow
last Thursday night I think a raccoon (or more than one) came into the garden and attacked the pond…
they got at least two fish and tossed around the water lilies… they don’t care for fish scales, so end up leaving them on the ground… I found two piles on the stepping stones alongside the pond…
the fish were clearly traumatized and have barely come out from under the bridge…
after doing some research, I put down epsom salt all around the pond and hoped that would dissuade them from finding their supper in my garden…
I also put on the motion sensor at the back door and the one on the garage…
since then, they have come back a few times, although I am starting to wonder if it might be the coyote that has been wandering in this area… the plants have been disturbed, but I haven’t found any fish bits…
this Thursday I put up a new wireless camera to see if I can spot whatever has been coming by…
so far, nothing has been spotted…
13 Friday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, garden, goldfish, grandson, moments, moving, nature, plants, pond, tank, treat, water, weather, widow
well, the big excitement is that the fish are now in their summer home…
my grandson didn’t have any difficulty catching them, although he did mention that some of them were fast, lol…
we got some great photos of them sliding into the water…
the water lilies also made it into the pond… this is their third year…
I am pleased that they have overwintered well;-)… hoping they will produce flowers again this summer…
03 Monday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, fish tank, goldfish, grandson, light, moments, nature, pump, sucked, tank, Technology, water, widow
very happy that the pump on the small fish tank is working once again…
had to have it replaced as it just stopped a week or so ago…
I was able to use the old (and rather large) pump while waiting for the replacement…
happily, no fish were sucked up into the much larger and stronger system…
they are happy and enjoying the better light, as the big pump blocked a lot…
and I can see them much better;-)…
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