19 Friday Feb 2021
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, fish, fish tank, goldfish, moments, nature, pond, suspended, watching, widow
I’ve been watching the fish more lately and have come to realize that they have favourite places to rest…
one little one looks like it is stuck under a rock on a regular basis… makes me think of how they always rest under the bridge in the garden…
it is interesting to watch them suspended in the water, often for quite some time…
10 Thursday Dec 2020
Posted in life, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, fish, fish tank, food, goldfish, lifting, moments, music, nature, reading, widow
I’ve been spending a bit more time in the living room, enjoying the lights, reading and listening to music…
sometimes the fish are very noisy… when they are searching for food they toss around the rocks in the bottom of the tank…
these are river rocks, not fish tank gravel, so when they knock them over it produces quite the sound, lol…
it amazes me that they can lift them at all and of course, when I tried to catch them at it, they stopped, lol…
18 Wednesday Nov 2020
Posted in life, loss, moments, nature, retirement, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
air, big girl pants, calendar, clogged, fish, fish tank, goldfish, moments, new skill, pump, widow
had a problem with the fish tank last week…
one of my fish was floating and it was hard to see through the water…
I finally figured out that the tube linking the bottom of the tank with the pump was clogged and they weren’t getting enough air in the water…
managed to get it out, cleaned and reinserted… after a few scary minutes the water started to flow over the edge and it slowly cleared… the rest of the fish were much happier…
I did have a giggle when I realized that the parrot feathers plant had been completely eaten, so I removed it…
today, I had to take the same steps, although the tank was still clear… having the water lilies in the tank are clogging it up more often…
but an easy fix, now I know what to do… maybe I will add this to the calendar and clean it once a week to be sure they stay healthy;-)…
22 Thursday Oct 2020
Posted in family, food, garden, health, life, moments, nature, technology, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
beloved, big girl pants, blessed, comfort food, family, garden, goldfish, lentils, mask, moments, nature, pond, safety, shubunkins, snow, Technology, trying, widow
last night my grandson came over just after dark to bring me a few items and do some jobs around the garden… here he is arriving, thanks to my new camera…
and the goodies he brought… I’m excited to try the purple popcorn…
he took the pump out of the pond, moved the heavy furniture onto the back deck, and then we spent time trying to catch fish…
two cellphone flashlights lit up the pond as he searched for the fish… amazingly he caught one of the shubunkins… quite a feat as they look mainly black in the pond and by then it was very dark out, lol…
I’ve been masking up now whenever he is over because of where he works… last night I ended up taking off my glasses as they kept fogging up, so I was trying not to fall into the pond… which was a feat as there are a bunch of rocks that have been pulled out of the water and are all over the deck, lol…
because I knew he was coming I had made our favourite red curry lentils and packaged up some for him to take home, along with a couple of items for the others… he was sad to hear he had to share the lentils;-)…
had some of mine for breakfast…
15 Thursday Oct 2020
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, company, family, garden, goldfish, moments, nature, plants, pond, stuck, tank, water plants, widow
after the boys left yesterday, I brought in the plants which they had removed from the pond…
took a while, but eventually I got them all into the tank in a way that made me happy, although the tank looks very full…
not sure if they will last the winter, but it is worth a try as they are expensive and the lilies produced a number of blooms which doesn’t always happen, lol…
once the two pails of fish were in the house, I waited for a number of hours so that they could acclimate to the water temperature in the house…
when I finally poured them into the tank most of them did fine… but one of the biggest ones got stuck between a plant and rock and didn’t seem to be able to get out from the spot… I was very worried and it took about half an hour before it moved out from the tight space…
today they seem happy, but maybe a little crowded;-)…
and I enjoyed having company to talk to throughout the day;-)…
14 Wednesday Oct 2020
Posted in family, food, garden, life, moments, nature, technology, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
big girl pants, camera, catching, family, garage, garden, goldfish, grandson, lunch, moments, mulching, plants, pond, Technology, widow
what a lovely afternoon… my son-in-law and youngest grandson came over with lunch… we had burgers and subway sandwiches in the garage…
then my son-in-law installed a new security light and camera on the garage… biggest issue was getting it to connect to the app, lol…
while he was doing that, my grandson took on mulching the leaves in the front yard… it was his first time mowing… he is getting big…
and the two of them caught eleven of the nineteen fish in the pond… it was great fun to watch them work together to capture the individual fish…
they also pulled out the plants that I am going to try to overwinter…
what a treat;-)…
05 Monday Oct 2020
Posted in garden, health, life, loss, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
after, big girl pants, birds, cleaning, feeders, garage, garden, goldfish, moments, nature, pictures, pond, squirrels, widow
spent an hour in the garage sorting and organizing… I laughed because I always think about the before picture after I’ve done the work, lol…
also was in the garden for a couple of hours watching the goldfish and birds move about…
I filled feeders and put them in different spots…
it is always interesting to see how long it takes the birds and squirrels to find them again, lol…
16 Wednesday Sep 2020
Posted in family, garden, life, moments, nature, technology, Uncategorized, weather
my grandson came by to get the fish tank ready for the goldfish to come into their condo…
the pump had stopped working in the spring and we hadn’t dealt with it over the summer… he ran it over to the fish store and they discovered the problem and it is fine now…
the tank had lots of dirty water in it and we tried various disgusting methods to empty it… after a number of ideas failed, we brought in the wet-vac and it worked great…
it is now empty and all of the bits and pieces have been scrubbed and are waiting to go back in… next week he will bring some new purple gravel and we will get it set up…
likely around Thanksgiving we will bring the fish in;-)…
19 Wednesday Aug 2020
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
additions, big girl pants, family, fish, garden, gift, goldfish, grandson, moments, no fishing, pictures, pond, treat, widow
got new additions to the pond…
two very large goldfish… a white one and an orange one…
they came from a family who plan to move to fancier fish… the grandma brought them over with the oldest grandson’s Nanny, who connected us…
they left them with me once they put the bags in the water… after the fish acclimatized for about half an hour I freed them so they could meet everyone else…
once they were safely in the pond, I took some pictures to send to the family, via Nanny, so that the grandkids could see they were in a good home…
the pond and fish bring me such peace… what a lovely gift;-)…
02 Sunday Aug 2020
Tags
big girl pants, birds, blessed, dinner, entertain, family, flowers, garden, goldfish, grandson, memories, moments, pond, squirrels, treat, widow
a lovely Sunday…
spent most of the day in the garden, watching squirrels, chickadees, butterflies and goldfish…
watched a little red squirrel make hundreds of trips across the upper deck to collect sunflowers for its stash… saw the frog and a purple house finch, read and napped in the garden…
brought out some of the flowers I received yesterday to enjoy…
so happy to have this space to entertain and was pleased to have visitors from out of town… enjoyed steak and lobster for dinner and some quiet late night star gazing…
we were quite late in eating and I giggled a bit when I realized that I didn’t remember to take a picture of my supper…
