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16 Saturday May 2020

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I’ve been watching the pond since a week ago Friday, when my son-in-law got it running…

for the last few years when the waterfall is going water vanishes from the pond in a slow but steady manner…

same thing this year… Tuesday it was quite low, but the temperature was near zero so I was afraid to use the outside hose to top it up, but I was also afraid to turn it off in case water froze in the pump and wrecked it…

it was still cold Wednesday, but I had to do something otherwise the pump was going to be sucking air and then die…

after removing a connector which had broken over the winter and reattaching the hose to the main tap, I was able to get the hose running slowly and then more quickly once I was sure it wasn’t full of ice…

took quite a while to fill the pond, but I sat in the sun with a jacket on and watched for birds, lol…

then I placed a thin rock behind the waterfall so that the water would fall directly into the pond and not onto the pads behind it…

I was very excited, because I think this might make a difference to the vanishing water…

yesterday I topped it up again, but it is losing water way more slowly…

going to watch and see what happens…

hose…

02 Sunday Jun 2019

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big girl pants, hose, lawn, leaking, pond, productive, steak, water, widow

out and about in the sunshine for a good portion of the day yesterday…

ran a few errands, grocery shopped, got the lawn mowed… and had a wonderful steak dinner…

trying a different method of running the water in the pond… currently I need to top it up every few days so I’ve only been turning it on when I am home and in the garden… hoping that this new system will show us if the water is evaporating or leaking through the hose…

halfway…

20 Wednesday Mar 2019

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hadn’t been in the hot tub for weeks… Sunday it was warm and I headed out… when I opened the cover I discovered that the water was only about halfway up the side… it was at the correct temperature so I got in and sat on the floor so that I was mostly under water…

then the jets came on and I got splashed… a lot… didn’t stay in too long after that…

dried off and figured out how to get water into it… had to do some fancy footwork to get the vent open so I could run the hose through it…

last night I was out for a hot tub under the nearly full moon… so nice… might have heard some geese…

what a treat to be back there…

level…

03 Sunday Feb 2019

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this morning I finally made it out for a hot tub… it has been crazy cold here and I just didn’t have the energy to get out there…

when I opened the lid I discovered that a lot of water had evaporated and the jets were shooting through the air… which, of course, leads to more evaporation, lol…

usually, when the water level is low, once I am in the tub, I use up enough space to stop the jets from overshooting, but not this morning…

needless to say, I didn’t stay out too long…

once I was dressed I went out and put water in… it is a bit of a process… have to put a hose through the dryer vent, then go outside and put the hose into the hot tub, usually using one side of the cover to hold it in place… then it is back downstairs to turn on the water, using a pair of pliers to turn it because my fingers aren’t strong enough… back outside to be sure the water is going in and not spraying the wall…

while I was waiting for it to fill, I took out the recycling and garbage… also had a few minutes to take some photos of the frost on one of the windows in the garage…

when it was full, back downstairs to turn off the water, run up and push the hose back into the basement, close the cover and run down to hang up the hose and connect the vent back up to the dryer… good exercise, lol…

connect…

06 Wednesday Jun 2018

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so happy this morning as I was able to top up the pond easily…

over the winter the connection at the wall had broken so that only one hose could be hooked up instead of the two I need…

this meant that every time the pond needed water I had to drag out the hose to fill it and then drag it back to put it away… which usually ended up with my hands black from the hose and smelling like rubber…

looked for quite a while to find a replacement and eventually found one last week… on Sunday my grandson was over and hooked it up for me…

excited when I arrived home tonight and found the fish out and about in the pond…

happy they are finally more comfortable and connecting to the space…

watery…

24 Monday Nov 2014

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yesterday there seemed to be lots of watery work…

had to pick up a new short hose in the morning so that I could empty the hot tub… also got more fish food…

took a couple of hours for the tub to drain and then had to use pliers to get the water running into the tub once the filter was changed… process was a tad cold…

thirty minutes and it was full again… now just waiting for it to get warmed up…

then I spent some time taking water out of the fish tank… once a third of it was out I added fresh water…

looking a lot better but I think it might be time for a new pump…

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always some reason to put on those big girl pants, lol…

threatening…

27 Friday Jun 2014

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it has been threatening to rain since about noon today and the sky tonight is ominous…

20140627-203703-74223456.jpgin fact it was supposed to have rained every day this week… so every day I put off watering…

tonight when I arrived home some of the baskets were gasping… so I spent time watering…

20140627-204229-74549575.jpgused my new amazing hose… got it from the Shopping Channel… it is wonderful… hardly weighs anything… easy to pack up, and I can lift it to water the baskets without any effort… It also never kinks… just love it…

a great help with some of those big girl pants jobs…

the rain has started, lol…

water…

13 Tuesday May 2014

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the day started with me running around in the basement trying to figure out how to make sure that cold water would run in the hose outside…

once we purchased the hot tub George put a system in place where he could run hot water outside so we could put it into the hot tub and in the little wading pool we had for the grandkids… of course I never learned the “how to”…

part way through the winter Jeff adjusted the pipes so that we had the hot water… but yesterday I was talking with my pond guy who was coming today to clean out the pond and would need cold water to fill it…

20140513-221919.jpgJeff and I were on the phone and then we face timed and eventually I turned the correct knob and we have cold water outside… yay for me and my big girl pants…

when I got home, after working the late shift, I added more water to the clean pond while I was organizing my supper… didn’t get it completely full, but will top it up when I get home tomorrow…

the weather has been kind of cool and rainy so I have brought in the plants… they are now living in front of the fish tank, lol…

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