04 Tuesday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, fishtank, moments, nature, pail, pond, survives, water, water lily, widow
the water lily has been sitting inside the backdoor in a pail of water for over a week and the water is rather smelly, lol…
finally took it out of the pail and trimmed all the dead leaves… there was even a bud as it was trying to bloom again…
then it went into the biggest tank…
looks good, but we will see if it survives the winter as the fish may eat the whole thing🤪…
03 Monday Jun 2024
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the bathtub pond has been running for enough days that it was time for the last goldfish to come out from their small condo in the house…
put a large rock in the pond so they could hide under it, added water from the pond to a bucket, and went into the house to catch them…
lucky for me, it didn’t take too long to collect the four of them…
brought them outside and left them in the pail to acclimatize for about twenty minutes and then poured them in;-)…
they went straight for the hiding place, lol…
29 Wednesday May 2024
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at last the bathtub pond is up and running…
took quite a while to empty out the water and leaves… used a pail to scoop out the majority of the water and then the wetvac to finish collecting the debris…
did it in a hurry on Thursday, as it was supposed to rain a lot over the next few days… left it empty after I put the pump in so it could begin to fill with rainwater…
on Sunday it finally got filled up using the hose, then the pump was plugged in and started running…
today, pansies made it into the flower bed in front of the pond;-)…
in a few days I will pop the last four fish, from the smallest tank, in…
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…
30 Saturday Apr 2022
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it took me three days and a number of tools to get the lid off of this pail of fish food flakes…
I removed the plastic band around it and then tried to pry open the top…
no matter how I yanked and pulled, it would not open…
by that time I was out of food for the fish and was hoping my neighbour might turn up in their driveway and I could ask for help… no such luck…
desperate, I used a bottle opener and a butter knife and circled the top, one inch at a time…
finally I was able to pull it off;-)…
gave the fish some food and prepared to package it into small bags that hold as much as my small jar…
with breaks it took most of the day to get seventeen bags organized…
they will go into the freezer and come out one at a time as I need them…
whew, those big girl pants…
02 Saturday Apr 2022
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I’ve been careful to hold this pail on the bottom as well as with the handle because I’ve wondered how long it will hold… I use it to add water to the fish tanks when they are a bit low…
today I got the answer…
this morning, I was on my third trip and just as I went to pour it into the big tank, it snapped and water went everywhere…
what a mess… drapes, wine bottles, tiles, front of drawers, the floor… everything was soaked… and one of the tiles broke… I am going to have to see if there is one left in the garage that size…
so, everything that could be moved was, the water was sopped up and the space was left to dry… tomorrow I will put everything back…
guess I will be looking for a new pail, lol…
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