And the wind blows
Posted by Anja on January 9, 2008 at 10:30 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:33
This morning it swept our BBQ off the deck and one of the solar garden lights into the pond. Complete with the hook it hung on. From time to time the whole house shakes under the fist of a gale (74 km/h the weather report says). The neighbours’ discarded Christmas trees are rolling across the road along with a lonely trashcan nobody seems to miss yet. It’s juuuust a bit spooky.
Last night rain and lightning pelted us, and with *plus* 11C this weird January heat wave (the average temperature for this time of year is supposed to be -10C) has even the fishes confused – they swim around once more in the ice-free pond, thinking it’s spring.
Plan B (left) and Agent Orange (right) have been spotted frolicking in the balmy waters. We hope Moe is still alive as well. He’s a hard one to make out with his camouflage colour.
A curious peak in the skimmer revealed three dead frogs on the bottom (a bit icky, that) and two live, if very sluggish ones on the rim and the branch that’s floating inside. We’ve since heard the skimmer referred to as ‘the place where frogs go to die’. *le sigh*
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Posted by Anja on January 1, 2008 at 15:29 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:30Every day we go out to check on the pond, hoping that our fish are still alive, hidden somewhere at the bottom. We also expect the frogs have hidden in the now empty skimmer. They already did that when the nights started to get colder in the fall.
Merry Christmas everyone
Posted by Anja on December 24, 2007 at 20:28 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:29
We installed a heating disc
Posted by Anja on December 11, 2007 at 15:25 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:28for those ice cold days, and had a very interested spectator:
It’s magic
Posted by Anja on December 3, 2007 at 08:24 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:25This morning the pond was gone.
Ice over
Posted by Anja on December 1, 2007 at 11:22 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:23We installed a bubbler to keep the fishes supplied with oxygen, but the hole is closing quickly.
Hibernation time
Posted by Anja on November 24, 2007 at 14:21 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:22Ice dams are forming, and it’s time to shut down the waterfall.
First snow
Posted by Anja on November 21, 2007 at 13:19 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:20A couple of weeks ago we added a beautiful moss overgrown branch to the top of the waterfall, but it seems I forgot to take a picture, so you’ll have to wait until the spring to admire it.
First fall
Posted by Anja on October 4, 2007 at 15:17 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:18The frogs accumulate like nuts
Feeding the fish occasionally is sheer indulgence, they’re getting on fine without our help. We’ll have to stop soon as the weather gets colder, though.
Mo’ fish
Posted by Anja on September 29, 2007 at 20:15 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:16We added two more comets to bring the number back up to three: Agent Orange, who has beautiful black markings on his fins, and Plan B, the orange and white one.
