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netting…

29 Sunday Sep 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, fish, furniture, garden, goldfish, leaves, moments, nature, netting, pond, rearranged, water, widow

on Friday I rearranged the lawn furniture so there was a bit more space on the back deck…

on Saturday, I took the netting off the pond… it was doing a good job of collecting the leaves although the weight of them had it sinking into the water…

the fish weren’t moving around as much as usual, the birds weren’t drinking or bathing and I didn’t like the look of it…

next year when it goes down, I will put some thin boards over the top so that it doesn’t slip into the fishes’ domain…

now, the fish, the birds, and I are much happier, lol…

anticipate…

09 Friday Aug 2024

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anticipate, big girl pants, blessed, experiment, fish, friend, garden, goldfish, grow, koi, moments, nature, neighbour, pond, widow

a few weeks ago a friend brought me some koi that a neighbour had given her for me… they are a fair bit smaller than the goldfish, but I anticipate they will grow quickly…

I’ve never had (or wanted) koi, so it will be interesting to see how it goes… this photo shows one of them (mainly black and white) amongst the much larger goldfish…

my fish are fairly tough… they don’t get any special treatment so we will see how the koi manage in that environment;-)…

an experiment…

producing…

28 Friday Jun 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, cacao, family, fish, gardener, koi, moments, nature, plants, pods, producing, The Leaf, widow

spent more time at The Leaf on Tuesday morning before my daughter headed home… it is such a wonderful point of happiness for me, and my daughter…

we discovered, after chatting with Linda, one of the gardeners, that the second cacao tree has now got two cacao pods on it… this is very exciting as only the first tree had been producing pods…

we spotted a little lizard on the third tree… apparently it arrived with one of plants, lol…

Linda was very excited to show us the mango tree that had just been planted…

we also learned there are fifty fish in the pond, and all the smaller ones were babies from the largest ones… the excess fish have been moved to another location to keep the population stable…

fair-sized…

04 Tuesday Jun 2024

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spent a little time in the pond Sunday afternoon…

for whatever reason (that I can’t figure out) the pump at the end seems to keep tipping up… I decided to put a fair-sized rock in to hold the edge of the pump down and give the fish somewhere to hide under, other than the bridge, lol…

and I removed the two dead water lilies which were clearly not coming back…

we will see if it works… well, look…

it seems as though the fish have finally decided that they can swim around the entire pond…

collected…

28 Tuesday May 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, collected, condo, family, fish, garden, goldfish, moments, nature, pail, pond, weather, widow

had some fun on Sunday when the fish moved from their condo, to the pond…

I caught the first few and then my housemate collected the rest from the first tank…

I used water from the pond and left them sitting by the pond for awhile to acclimatize before they went in…

took a bit to catch the rest from the second tank, but eventually they were all in the big pail…

they have barely shown themselves since making it into the pond… amazing how twenty-four fish can fit under the bridge, lol…

rotor…

29 Monday Apr 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, fish, fish tank, headache, loud, moments, pump, rotor, Technology, widow

this little rotor caused a big problem…

for whatever reason, it made the large pump sound like an airplane taking off…

probably it gave the fish headaches, lol…

got the new one in and now it is very quiet and easily starts up once turned back on…

carts…

05 Friday Apr 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, carts, Dairy Queen, delicious, dim sum, family, fish, ice cream cone, memories, menu, moments, widow

went for dim sum on Wednesday… can’t even think of the last time I had it…

it was supper time and they worked from a menu, not just having the carts going around…

spent a few minutes with their fish…

as per usual we ordered too much, but that meant I had a lovely leftover lunch on Thursday…

it was delicious both times…

ended the evening on our way home with a cone from Dairy Queen…

yum;-)…

scrubbed…

15 Thursday Feb 2024

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algae, big girl pants, blessed, fish, glass, goldfish, moments, nature, pump, scrubbed, tank, widow

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…

selfie…

13 Monday Nov 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, connecting, COVID, fish, health, laptop, memories, moments, selfie, selfie stick, sun, sunshine, Technology, widow, zoom

had some fun with technology today…

met with my Monday group in the morning via Zoom… I set up a space in the living room for the laptop so others could see the fish, but they weren’t visible, lol…

during Covid we met via Zoom, so we have been happy to have access to it again as the group has been dealing with poor health and we don’t like to miss our time together…

hopefully everyone will be feeling better soon so that we can get back to meeting in person…

later in the day I used the selfie stick to take a photo of me reading in the sun… there hasn’t been much of it shining over the last few weeks…

I had tried to get it to work yesterday, without success… after going online and doing a bit of research, I figured it out, so today it took the photo easily;-)…

such a treat when technology works;-)…

breaking…

30 Monday Oct 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, breaking, cold, fish, garden, goldfish, grandson, ice, moments, nature, plants, pond, pumps, snow, time, water, weather, widow, winter

Saturday, late in the afternoon, after breaking the ice on the pond, we caught twenty-one of the goldfish…

the pond water was filled with leaves and was rather brown and murky…

it was quite the job as, at one point, my grandson went into it barefoot with his pants rolled up to cut down the water lilies and grasses (I think it was about -12°C in the air)…

but that really helped catch a bunch of them that had been hiding under the lily leaves… they were moving slower in the cold, but still snuck out of the net… also, some of the catching was in the dark, lol…

then they sat in pails in the house for hours before getting moved into the three tanks…

we were careful to be sure to keep size and numbers similar in the tanks so that there is sufficient space for all of them…

we thought we had them all, but on Sunday we discovered five more, woohoo…

now, the pumps have been removed from the pond, and it is apparently going into the winter with water in it, lol…

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