26 Wednesday Nov 2025
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spent time with the fish and their pumps…
each one was cleaned and the water came streaming over beautifully…
I’ve figured out an easier way to clean them now, so the process is much quicker most of the time… I’ll still need to do the longer process once in a while…
but for now I am happy with this new system…
27 Wednesday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, garden, gunk, moments, nature, pond, pump, refreshing, water, waterfall, weather, widow
yesterday I climbed into the pond and cleaned the pump…
it always makes a huge difference to the flow of the waterfall when all the gunk is pulled out;-)…
I can hear the change in the power of the water as I am cleaning…
then I sat for a few minutes with my legs in the water… it was refreshing…
16 Monday Jun 2025
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bathtub, bathtub pond, big girl pants, blessed, garden, larvae, moments, nature, pond, pump, weather, widow, working
this morning I finally got around to sorting out a working pump for the bathtub pond…
I had switched the two pumps between the main pond and the bathtub, but not long after that change the pump in the tub stopped working completely…
and because there are no fish in that pond, the chance of mosquito larvae growing in it was a problem…
happily, the first extra pump I came across worked, although it didn’t have a piece extending out of the water… luckily that doesn’t matter as the water just needs to move to ensure no larvae can survive…
hopefully this one will continue to work…
happy to get that job off the list…
29 Thursday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, garden, moments, nature, plants, preparation, pump, water lily, weather, widow
the pond was filled and running for just over a week in preparation for the fish…
recently I had to climb in to place the water lily and sort out a problem with the second pump which wasn’t working…
took a few tries, but eventually it got going…
the water temp was really cold and when I got out my legs were bright red, lol…
I also topped up the water as it continues to leak a bit…
28 Monday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, connected, empty and fill, filter, garden, hot tub, moments, pump, Technology, time, water, weather, widow
it was time to change the water and filter in the hot tub…
once I brought out the pump and connected it to the hose, I started the process at 10:20 am… twelve minutes later the pump came out and I emptied the last little bit of water with a pail and cloth… that took another twenty minutes…
once the new filter was in, I brought out the hose from the basement, repaired a piece of it, and hooked it back up to the outside tap…
filling the tub took about an hour and a half and just after 1 pm, the electricity was back on and the heating up process began…
it took just over a day to heat to 103°C…
12 Sunday Jan 2025
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another fish tank pump cleaned…
I think that I’ve been feeding them too much as there is a lot of gunk when the filters are rinsed…
I have come a long way with cleaning the tanks… now it is just another job on the list, lol…
28 Saturday Dec 2024
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when I was feeding the fish… around 10:30 am, their usual time, lol… I discovered that one of the pumps was running, but the water wasn’t…
I turned it off, removed it, and put the pieces into the sink… after cleaning everything, it still didn’t work…
I placed the filter on the front of the tank so I could fiddle with the little impeller and was thrilled when it started working…
we can’t get to the fish store until next week to replace this pump… the fish will be fine until then, even though the tank looks odd and it is hard to see them, lol…
11 Monday Nov 2024
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the other day I had to clean one of the fish tank pumps…
it was a bit dicey to get the pieces that needed to be cleaned out, but I managed it… hope it will be simpler next time, lol…
the fish appear happy and the tank has already started to clear up…
26 Saturday Oct 2024
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today I worked on one of my least favourite jobs…
I cleaned a pond pump…
it is grungy and messy work, but I am always happy when all the bits and pieces are clean and ready to be put away for the winter…
one down and one to go, lol…
am missing my beloved, who would have got the job done in a flash;-)…
those big girl pants, sigh…
08 Monday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cascading, filter, garden, moments, pond, pump, waterfall, weather, widow
on Sunday, I put out all the cushions as there was no rain in the forecast;-)…
the waterfall was running very slowly so I climbed into the pond and cleaned out all the muck that had accumulated in the filter of the pump…
then I trimmed up some of the plants in one of the floating baskets as the fish swam around my legs, completely unconcerned…
now the waterfall is cascading beautifully;-)…
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