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01 Saturday Jun 2024

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I enjoy spending time in the garden watching the birds that come to the feeders, and the pond, for a drink and maybe a bath, lol…

sometimes I will see a new visitor but can’t quite identify them, but the Merlin sound app often gives me something to compare them with…

yesterday I’d seen a cute little bird, about the size of a chipping sparrow, but didn’t have time to look it up… today I was sitting in the garden with the sound app on and discovered it was a pine siskin…

technology is so cool;-)…

scoop…

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…

collected…

28 Tuesday May 2024

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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…

thrive…

20 Monday May 2024

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today turned out to be lovely and I finally got the two water plants into the pond…

I pulled out the two floating baskets and put the elephant ear into one with some hostas that Hilda the Gardener dug up for me last week…

this container went into the waterfall area…

the papyrus went into the second container and I dug up a bit of creeping Jenny and creeping Charlie to add to it…

this one went into the main pond…

they look great and I hope the plants all thrive in their new homes;-)…

and I finally started to empty the bathtub pond… still lots to do to finish up that one…

beardstongue…

16 Thursday May 2024

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yesterday we went to Shelmerdine…

I had called and they had a new shipment in, which included butterfly bush…

they are referred to as delicate perennials or hardy annuals, lol… that means you have to bring them in over the winter if you want them to survive… I managed to get one to survive one year, but it didn’t make it the following year…

I also picked up some beardstongue – which hummingbirds like, and has purple flowers…

finished up with cucumbers, dill, a tomato and a couple of waterplants…

the butterfly bushes went right into areas around the pond and the rest into the garage to harden off… likely the water plants will make it into the pond in the next few days…

thermos…

11 Saturday May 2024

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for the last little while the outer shell of the buds on the elm trees have been coming down…

then, when I looked outside on Friday, the ground and decks were covered with elm seeds…

after I put out the cushions and went to sit down, they were already covered, lol…

used a thermos for my drink to keep the seeds out…

spent time with the net to collect as much of the debris as possible from the pond… filled two nets, lol…

northwest…

09 Thursday May 2024

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enjoying every beautiful minute I can manage in the garden…

yesterday, I dug pots out of the shed and planted the dahlias… four pots that go along with the one I planted last week…

then I set up a pallet with a plant hanging stand and added the lounge chair in the area to the northwest of the pond… I am hoping this will be a good napping area…

after I put out the cushions, I repaired one umbrella and put the rest up, to see when they provided shade…

after all that I had some lunch and read for awhile, testing out various sitting spots…

finally, I brought more pots out from the shed and set them up in various spots in the garden to be filled with plants;-)…

throughout the afternoon I noted where the chairs got the best shade…

while I was working a bunny came by and snacked on dropped birdseed and many white-crowned sparrows stopped by for drinks and baths…

what a delightful day…

muck…

08 Wednesday May 2024

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had some quality time in the garden on Sunday…

the umbrellas all got put into their slots…

bird feeders were filled and some were moved…

the last of the muck came out of the waterfall area and water was added to the pond…

a piece of the pump was glued back on, it was connected to the hose and then turned on… the Kasa plug was connected so Google Home can turn the waterfall on and off…

what a treat to hear that lovely sound…

spitting…

28 Sunday Apr 2024

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Friday, it was rainy but I went out when it wasn’t spitting, and used the wetvac on the main pond area…

after two trips out, between rain, I managed to empty as much of the water as possible and collect the majority of the leaves…

I started on the waterfall area, but the rain was coming down much stronger so I had to stop…

the rain continued and filled up the bottom of the pond… I may leave that and just add water to fill it up…

I still have to empty the waterfall area before I can turn the waterfall on…

then the pond will sit for a week or so before the fish move into it;-)…

stretched…

27 Saturday Apr 2024

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Wednesday, after I skimmed off as much of the floating bits as possible, I brought out the pond pump and attached a hose that stretched to the fence…

had to hold the float up so it took a while, but finally most of the water was emptied from the main part…

when I tried to work on the waterfall area the pump kept coming apart… luckily I was far enough away that I didn’t get drenched, lol…

that was it for the day…

Thursday I put on my watershoes, went into the pond, and pulled up two pails full of leaves and other debris… I also removed many big rocks and cut back a portion of the pond grass which was trying to take over…

my grandson set up the new wetvac we had purchased last week and vacuumed up more leaves and a few rocks, lol…

nearly ready…