18 Thursday Nov 2021
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04 Thursday Nov 2021
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babies, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, condo, family, fish, garden, goldfish, memories, moments, nature, pond, preparation, tank, weather, widow
I have been working on the fish condo for weeks now… spent a good portion of a day cleaning the fish tank… lots of scrubbing and emptying…
I researched a second tank and we went out and got the tank and two pumps so that they were on the ends as opposed to the back of the tanks…
after numerous measurements, we set the new tank up on the counter along the North wall of the dining room… then the bottom was filled with rocks and water and the new pump set up… this tank will be for the baby fish as the other tank won’t be able to hold all of the fish…
I worked with my grandson and we were able to move the big tank to the spot beside the small tank… it looks good there and it almost appears like one single very long tank…
after putting river rocks in it, I ran the hose from the outside tap through the house and was able to fill it up in nine minutes… it probably took me that long to fill the small one as I used a pail and walked back and forth to the kitchen sink for that one, lol…
had a bit of an issue with the pump as there wasn’t quite enough room in the large tank for it on the edge, but we were able to remove a piece of plastic and now it fits perfectly…
once the water was in and circulating for a few days we began catching the fish… we have been at it for quite a while… we started on October 22nd and today I think we caught the last one… I had to break ice for the last few collections, lol…
it was quite a process because since about the middle of October the water has been brown as leaves have fallen into it so it has made spotting fish difficult…
we also brought in some of the water lilies, which hopefully will survive until next spring when they can go back into the pond…
the tanks look great and I am pleased with all of our work…
we have 12 large fish and 14 babies;-)…
27 Wednesday Oct 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, condo, fish, fish food, fish tank, goldfish, memories, moments, nature, pond, tapped, widow
recently I’ve seen a number of videos about dogs and cats banging or tapping their food bowls to announce they want food…
for years we have tapped the side of the fish tank to let the goldfish know we are putting food into the water…
we follow the same system when they are in the pond, although this year they fed off the algae and bugs in the pond…
they often need to be reminded of the process once they come in for the winter… and of course any babies have to learn the process…
once they remember, they often come up to the top of the tank as I walk toward them, lol…
we are not there just yet…
24 Sunday Oct 2021
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22 Sunday Aug 2021
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spent a relaxing morning in the garden, sitting close to the pond…
counted ten babies who are growing every day, and got to watch them swimming around looking for food…
it was particularly nice because it was supposed to rain all day, but it held off until around one pm…
not sure how the pond will look tomorrow because it is already very full from all the rain we’ve already had…
04 Sunday Jul 2021
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I spent a lovely and quiet hour sitting right next to the pond this morning…
I had planned to turn the waterfall on as soon as I got into the garden, but decided to sit close to the pond and watch the fish…
yesterday, when I was in the pond cleaning it up, I spotted a baby swimming by… they move really quickly, so I only saw it for a moment…
my goal this morning was to check for any others that might be there…
and I spotted two… maybe the whitish one I saw yesterday and an actual gold one… they are much harder to spot in the pond as they look black… of course I didn’t get any pictures, lol…
great excitement and I will keep watch for more;-)…
sure miss the water hyacinth as its roots were a wonderful safe hiding place for babies as they started their journey as the goldfish eat them when they are very small…
23 Wednesday Jun 2021
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bathtub, big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, garden, goldfish, moments, nature, pond, pump, sunflower seeds, widow
on Sunday, I spent the majority of the day working on the bathtub pond…
started out emptying it with the watering jug… realized that was going to take too long and would be difficult to get as the water went down, so I used the shop vac instead…
as it filled with water I scooped it out and used it to water the grass seedlings around the garden…
then the shop vac sucked up a million sunflower seeds along with Virginia creeper remnants…
eventually I got in and removed the rocks and plant and also trimmed back some of the Virginia creeper… nice to have it cleaned up;-)…
ordered a new pump for this pond and waited a few days for it to arrive…
this morning I filled up the tub with water and got the new pump working… it is going to be excellent and shouldn’t get plugged up…
next, I think a few feeder fish might go into it…
08 Tuesday Jun 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, goldfish, memories, moments, nature, open, pictures, poppies, widow
woke up to twelve open poppies yesterday…
was quite surprised as they usually open one or two at a time…
they look lovely, particularly with the reflection in the pond…
the goldfish add to the pretty orange colours, lol…
can’t stop taking photos of them…
19 Friday Feb 2021
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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
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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…
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