05 Wednesday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, clean-ish, family, garden, moments, nature, pond, pumps, water, weather, widow
cleaned out the first of the garden water pumps last week…
always happy when they are all clean-ish and packed away for the winter…
this morning I was able to pull out, clean and put away the last two…
all the jobs in the garden are done and it is now ready for the winter…
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🤪…
29 Wednesday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, caught, counted, family, fish, garden, grandson, indoors, moments, nature, pond, water level, weather, widow
a few fish came into the house around Thanksgiving…
on Tuesday morning we went out to collect the rest, as it is seems to be getting cooler every day…
part of the process was to empty a good amount of water, particularly as the pond was as high as I’ve seen it, since we’ve had so much rain lately…
then it was fairly easy for my housemate to catch the remaining fish…
once they were in the tanks, I counted thirty, which is about right, so we were pleased that we’d got them all…
we will check the pond over the next few days to see if there are any stragglers that we missed…
03 Friday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, black netting, blessed, clogging, falling leaves, moments, nature, pond, Technology, tight, water, waterfall, widow
climbed into the pond twice on Wednesday…
the leaves have been falling and clogging up the pump every few days…
this is getting to be a pain so I spent the first time cleaning out the filter and pulling up leaves from the bottom…
the second time I cut back all the reeds to be sure the sun could get to the new bud, hoping that the weather cooperates so it can open… I also hoped it would help make the netting easier to cover the pond…
last year we put down green netting over the pond to try to catch the leaves, but it looked terrible and I took it off…
this year we have a new plan… we got black netting and pulled it tight over the pond covering everything from the waterfall to the furthest edges of the pond…
it is really hard to see the netting except around the edges where it is doubled up and it was already catching the never-ending falling leaves….
29 Monday Sep 2025
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big girl pants, cat, garden, moments, nature, pond, Raven, squirrels, tell, water, waterfall, widow
Raven the cat stopped by for a visit to supervise as we were working on the pond waterfall……
the only problem is that the squirrels yell for most of the time, lol…
happily, the waterfall is running again…
26 Friday Sep 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, buds, flowers, garden, happy, moments, nature, never, pond, water lily, weather, widow
the first water lily flower never did really open since the weather had turned cold and rainy…
the second bud came up and opened… this picture was taken yesterday when it was completely open…
today this looks to be about the last of that one…
there is still another bud coming up… hoping for warm, sunny, weather…
11 Thursday Sep 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, contaminants, fish, fish tanks, goldfish, koi, moments, pond, project, pumps, water, weather, widow
finally got around to filling the fish tanks yesterday…
the process took over an hour, as each tank had to be filled and then the pump was cleaned, plugged in and turned on…
I was pleased as after each pump was cleaned, it started up without any issues…
now the pumps will run for three or four weeks before any fish come inside, to be sure that the water has no chlorine or other contaminants in it…
happy this piece of work is done and I don’t have to think about the fish coming inside until much later;-)… woohoo…
09 Tuesday Sep 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, buds, falling, fish, food, friend, friends, garden, happy, hibiscus, leaves, lunch, moments, nature, pond, soaking, wasps, water, weather, widow
another delightful day in the garden, especially after the last number of cool and overcast days…
spotted a hibiscus blossom, so that was a treat…
next, I went into the pond to clean out the pump… the leaves have been falling like crazy and there were a ton in the water… once the pump has been cleaned out, the waterfall always flows beautifully…
all the cushions went out and a dear friend arrived with lunch… we ate inside as the wasps are very busy in the garden…
we moved outside and had a lovely time by the pond catching up on life…
after she left, I read in the garden for the remainder of the day;-)…
soaking up every minute possible in this sanctuary…
08 Monday Sep 2025
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barely, big girl pants, blessed, buds, friends, garden, moments, pond, summer, time, water, water lily, weather, widow
lovely afternoon in the garden…
spotted a new bud coming up on the water lily, even though the first flower barely opened due to the cold weather, sigh…
and then spent a great time with my buddies as we enjoyed the beautiful summer day;-)…
07 Sunday Sep 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cool, family, garden, goldfish, mistake, moments, pet store, pond, released, widow
went to a pet store today… big mistake, lol…
came home with three goldfish… a white one with a bright patch of red close to its tail and two gold with black dots all over them…
set them in the pond in their travel bag for nearby an hour… it is fairly cool in the pond with all this cold weather we’ve been having…
once they were released, I spotted this little one and got a quick photo… then they vanished under the bridge… since then, I’ve spotted the white one, but so far not the other two;-)…
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