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puddling…

01 Sunday Jun 2025

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the pond has continued to leak but we thought we had the problem figured out…

water seemed to be puddling under a UV clarifier which was installed in the pond at the beginning, but which never accomplished its job and has been unplugged for a number of years…

we picked up a piece to connect the two hoses together and with a lot of cutting and muscle, were able to disconnect it entirely… so happy, thinking the problem had been solved…

turned the pump back on and watched water still coming out where the hose goes under blocks and the deck…

so, the issue appears to be that the six or seven feet of hose from the pump to the waterfall needs to be replaced… we are considering ways to accomplish this, which may involve removing a good sized piece of the deck to get at it, sigh…

and so it goes…

raked…

25 Sunday May 2025

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early this week the garden was aerated with a huge machine…

watching the young man muscle it around the space made it clear how big and heavy the machine was…

a few days later, after watering the grass to soften it, clover and grass seed was scattered…

then the spots that weren’t doing well were raked and levelled out…

the new rake worked beautifully… the old one had separated quite a while ago, but it was likely thirty or forty years old, lol…

since then the grass has been watered daily to encourage the seed to take…

all of the cushions are put away before the watering begins…

it is a process, as the sprinkler has to be moved five or six times to ensure every bit gets a good soaking;-)…

fingers crossed that it does better this year than it did last year…

picked…

12 Monday May 2025

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started working on the pond on May 3rd… it is a big job…

brought out the pond pump and removed as much water as possible… aimed the hose towards the cedars to give them a good soaking…

the waterfall area has to be done separately, after I removed the two floating planters…

then I left it so that the leaves and twigs could dry out a bit before removing them…

the next day, the wetvac came out and it removed quite a few leaves, and a few rocks, lol…

next I got into the pond and picked out the majority of the last leaves in the dry areas… that evening, my housemate finished draining the waterfall area and cleaned up debris from the bottom of the pond…

on the 9th, we obtained the foam to fill the spaces between the rocks so the fish won’t be able to hide when we are trying to catch them in the fall, lol…

rearranging and foaming the rocks took two days of concentrated work and it was hot out…

Sunday, May 11, the pumps were in, the necessary rocks have been foamed, a few flower pots have been added for fish to hide in and now we wait for the foam to cure so the water can go in…

this afternoon the pond was filled, woohoo… excited to watch the first of the water enter, using a dedicated hose which goes right into it… took an hour and a half to fill the bottom portion and just under thirty minutes to fill the waterfall area… that had to be done with the regular hose, as it isn’t connected to the lower area unless the waterfall is running…

it will be a few weeks of it running before the fish make their way from the winter condo;-)…

unfortunately, the plugs on the post near the pond are not working, so for now I am using an extension cord to provide electricity to the two pond pumps… always something, lol…

so happy to hear it running;-)…

connected…

28 Monday Apr 2025

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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…

pumps…

16 Sunday Mar 2025

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Friday’s project was to clean out the pumps on each of the three fishtanks…

it always slips down towards the bottom of the list, but once I get going, it isn’t that difficult, and doesn’t take that long either…

usually I only do one or two, but this time I did all of them at the same time…

the pumps are now running beautifully, and I topped up the water in each one… usually I do the topping up on Mondays, but was just a bit sooner this time;-)…

inhabitants…

19 Saturday Oct 2024

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today the three fish in the bathtub pond moved into their winter condo… one of the rocks that had been in that pond was also brought in to provide a tunnel for the fish…

the tanks have been filled and running since September 30th, although the biggest one has a lot of algae in it so these fish will be testing whether it is ready for inhabitants…

we will likely wait another week or so before moving the rest of the school…

so far, they appear happy;-)…

sprinkler…

05 Saturday Oct 2024

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for the last few weeks I have been annoyed by a sound I could hear on the deck…

it sounded like wood rubbing against something…

I have walked all around, looking and listening with no success as I’ve tried to figure out what it was…

on Friday I asked my housemate if he could figure it out…

it took him all of two minutes to point out the solar floating sprinkler, which was sitting upside down on a corner of the deck, mainly in the shade…

apparently, a bit of it was catching the sun’s rays and causing it to attempt to run, which caused the sound…

it has now been moved into the garage and there is blissful silence on the deck;-)…

tanks…

30 Monday Sep 2024

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following along with taking the netting off the pond and the fish being happier, I’ve been working on their winter condo…

rarely do I clean the tanks when they head out to the pond, lol…

so, I’ve been working on emptying tanks, cleaning them and getting them set up for the big move…

this year I decided to move the small tank from the living room to the dining room credenza with the other two tanks…

the plan is to have plants on the ledge where the tank was…

to do that I had to empty the two big tanks so that I could move them along so there would be room to fit the third one in… they also were scrubbed to get most of the algae off them…

and of course the one is the same depth, but about an inch and a half shorter than the others… we found some wood in the garage that brought it up to the perfect height…

we ordered a pump to use to empty them and after waiting for it to arrive, when I used it on Saturday, it worked for about five minutes and then quit, sigh… so I filled a jug and dumped it into the toilet over and over as well as watering some of the planters outside…

I quite like how they look all together…

after nearly completely emptying them and moving them, I filled them with the outside hose… I am so happy that it extends to a hundred feet so it can do things like this…

two of the three pumps started with no problem… unfortunately, the biggest one did not… it had been giving me a bit of trouble last year so I will be heading to Nestor’s to either replace the pump or the whole system… we have had that one for many years…

once it is running, it will likely be three or four weeks to be sure the water is clean and ready, before the fish come in…

little steps;-)…