I spent some time reading on the upper deck and when it warmed up a bit I found the screws for the hammock, removed the umbrella, laid the whole thing down, and attached all four legs tightly… put everything back together and then added a couple of cushions to the hammock chair and it is now perfect;-)… I may have had a short nap in it while taking a break from reading…
I am very happy as the shape of this chair is much more comfortable than the previous one… I think it will get more use, but we shall see…
a little later, I used the fishnet in the bathtub pond to clean out all the dead water hyacinths from last year… then I brought out the wet-vac and sucked out the dead leaves and water… next I put together the pieces for the new pump and set it into the pond… after filling it up, turned on the pump and it worked… yay…
spent Tuesday in the garden… the first part on the deck reading in the sunshine…
there was no wind, so I was able to flatten out and fold up the tarpaulin…
then I moved to the back deck and did a bit of reading before starting to remove the last of the leaves and water from the pond with the wet vac… it took a number of trips to get it done… but, I did it, yay…
next, I found the hose, hooked it up and started the water running… finally I hooked up the pump and finished filling it…
so happy when the waterfall started up… worth all the work…
what a treat to sit, watch and listen to the sound;-)…
spent most of it on the deck, reading in the sunshine…
I also spent time working at the pond… we tried to take off the tarp a few days ago but it was too heavy as it still had a lot of water and a ton of soggy leaves in it… the plan was to wait for another person to help us…
I put the pump in the pond again… the other day when I tried this the hose popped off and gave me a pond-water shower;-(… this time I got rid of most of the water… then I put it into the tarp and got a fair bit of water out of it…
after that I was able to drag it out of the pond and bag the leaves… they filled half of a garbage can, lol…
then the tarp was spread out in the grass, hopefully drying, so it can be folded up and put away…
maybe in the next few days I will vacuum the bottom of the pond and fill it with water…
on Friday we emptied, moved and cleaned the hot tub, put it back and refilled it… this time I used a larger hose that I have and it emptied the tub in fifteen minutes… usually it can take hours, so this was a great improvement…
I am always happy when the jets start up after the refill, because sometimes it takes a few tries to get them working… happily, they started right away…
unfortunately we could not replace the arms as the screw for one of them would not come out…
we also left the seal for them to look at, and hopefully repair or replace…
so I have a call in to Krevco to see about having a technician come out and see what they can do…
cleaning the pumps is not one of my favourite jobs, but I have gotten pretty good with it now that I have no choice, lol…
both tanks were getting murky which is the sign that the entire pump needs to be cleaned… that means the tube and the three different filters in each pump…
yucky, but necessary to get done… small one went fine… I don’t even make a face when I am rinsing them by hand whereas before I wouldn’t even consider touching them…
those big girl pants…
when I dealt with the big pump it was cleaned and put back without any issues…
but, when I plugged it back in nothing happened, sigh…
tried plugging it into a few other outlets, but no luck… brought it back into the kitchen, dumped the water out of it and removed the actual pump, which is quite tiny…
then I took the two pieces apart, used a Q-tip to clean both and rinsed it out without getting the outside of it wet…
got it back together, plugged it in and it worked, phew… when the pumps stop working it is rather worrisome because there is the concern about the stress on the fish in the tank…
now to see how long it takes to clear up the water and get rid of the murkiness…
today’s project was getting the bathtub pond emptied, cleaned, filled, and the pump going…
I used the wet vac and it took a while, but eventually the tub was empty…
I brought out the pump and filter from the basement and put a large rock in it for stability… last year it kept falling over as the water rose… looks like a great fix…
sprayed it down and filled it with water… turned on the pump, and away it went…
I found a large round piece of Tyndall stone and set a basket with some pond grasses into the pond…
it looks good and sound excellent…
after it was all done and I was reading, a bunny friend had snacks and then stretched out for a rest under one of the chairs…
it has been a long, but productive, day and the weather has been amazing, around 22 Celsius…
I brought out the pump for the pond, hooked it up to a different hose and used it to empty the water… it doesn’t take too long with the big hose…
thanks to a great idea that my grandson had last year, I used the wet vac to suck up leaves and debris from the bottom… eventually I put on my water shoes, climbed in and got the last bits out…
I attached the pump to the waterfall and placed all the rocks back to hide it, hoping that there wouldn’t be any leakage, lol…
then ran the hose across the garden and filled the pond up… it took just over an hour and I finally plugged in and turned the pump on…
and it worked;-)… with no leaks…
we also got the hammock out and assembled, put up three umbrellas, and moved two of the chairs for the back deck out from the shed…
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