bridge…

22 Monday May 2023

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happy that the fish have finally decided to come out from under the bridge during the day;-)…

climbed into the pond as the pump that went into it last week was barely running…

after taking all the bits out, washed them in a pail, and then went back into the pond to return them…

when I turned it back on, it burbled just like when it first went in…

always careful when I go into the pond, but it also makes me happy;-)…

working…

14 Sunday May 2023

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Friday was a great day in the garden…

first time this year I took the time to put out all the cushions… and then Hilda the Gardener arrived and began cleaning up the space… yay…

while she was working away, I climbed into the pond to reset the second pump and cover the cords…

next I brought out the water lilies from the tanks in the house and set them in the pond…

finally I caught and put three goldfish into the pond to see how they fared… maybe next week the rest will move out of the condo…

all in all a great day…

koi…

25 Saturday Mar 2023

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recently a friend messaged me asking if I might take some of their fish… they were looking for homes for three goldfish and a koi as they are going to focus on guppies and tetras…

I thought about it and agreed to take the goldfish, but not the koi… they have different requirements and also grow very large…

they started to look for a place that would take the koi and eventually were able to find a home for it and the largest goldfish at a city college which has a number of ponds…

they brought the two remaining goldfish over on Friday…

they have now joined the fish in the large tank and seem quite happy…

I think they will enjoy the pond when they get to move out there;-)…

blurry…

22 Sunday Jan 2023

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I was surprised to see this on the garage cam yesterday morning…

it is a bit blurry, and at first I thought it was a cat, but then I recognized the tail…

thought these guys were gone for the winter, lol… although I don’t care if they come by when there aren’t any fish in the pond for them to eat;-)…

tarp…

13 Thursday Oct 2022

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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…

sneaky…

04 Tuesday Oct 2022

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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…

dismantled…

20 Tuesday Sep 2022

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Monday some jobs got done…

I met the kids at the “A” for breakfast and then we worked in the garden…

Virginia creeper was pulled from behind the hot tub and some tiny holes were filled in the foundation close to the door…

the hammock was dismantled and pieces put into the shed…

then we started catching fish to bring into the condo… we got nine so far, including all the biggest ones, and will do more every now and again…

they caught them and I put them into the tanks…

happy to get some of the fall chores done…

scum…

06 Saturday Aug 2022

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spent the better part of yesterday and today working on the fish tanks… I’ve been thinking about how far I’ve come from the person who admired the tank, but had no desire to get my hands dirty… that was all for my beloved…

yesterday I used the pump (for emptying the hot tub) to remove the majority of the water that was still in them… then I removed the rocks and scrubbed down the sides… never leave a tank partly filled because the scum on the glass becomes rather difficult to remove, lol…