01 Monday Jun 2026
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focussed on pumps…
dug out the pump for the bathtub pond and, with some help from my housemate, got it going in the pond…
next the hot tub was emptied with the pump from the basement, which I needed help to find, lol… hoping a friend can come by and offer suggestions on the right hand cover which is not opening well…
finally, my housemate took the fountain pump out of the big pond… it took me awhile to get it cleaned out and then it went back in…
lots of water work;-)…
21 Thursday May 2026
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big girl pants, fish, leak, lower, moments, pump, Technology, water, widow
once I got up on Tuesday, I decided to feed the fish…
usually they get fed around 10:30, but it was just before nine when I got out the food and discovered that the water in one tank was way lower than the others…
it had been leaking out from the very top of the pump:-(… very unusual spot for a leak… I don’t think it had been spewing water for very long and set out to sort out the situation…
turned the pump off, used towels to mop up as much of the water as possible and then took out the filters and cleaned them… oddly, algae had blocked the bottom of the filter pack…
after cleaning the filters, they went back into the pump and everything seemed fine although it took a few hours to soak up all the spilled water…
whenever there is a leak, I am nervous for the next few days and constantly checking to make sure everything is fine, lol…
so far, so good 😊…
03 Sunday May 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, grandson, grass, moments, planters, pump, raking, reading, tarp, weather, widow
spent time in the garden on a lovely day…
used the pond pump to empty the water on top of the tarp and then took the tarp off the pond…
took a few minutes to lay it out on the grass to dry out…
we moved a few planters to new places and will see if they stay in those spots…
did a little bit of raking of leaves, but there is still a lot to do…
and also spent some time reading in one of the chairs which recently came out of the shed…
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…
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