Update
Posted by Anja on March 24, 2012 at 18:53 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 15:35Most of the muck’s out, and the fish are back in. Usually I also put the tropical plants back in on spring-cleaning day, but they will have to stay inside until the last frost day. We’re so unbelievably early this year. But with the heat we had turning the water yucky, it was time to get the pump back in and the filter going.
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Posted by Anja on at 16:03 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 15:35Muck day for us means Spa Day for the fish. Meanwhile the frogs are all: ‘Dude, what’s going on?’
Back in business
Posted by Anja on April 18, 2010 at 20:41 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 16:53
I got my outside day today. We used it to spring-clean the pond, give the fish a spa day and restart the filter and waterfall. I divided and repotted the papyrus and plunked it and the black taro back in their place.
The fish were hardly back in the pond when they started playing in the waterfall. It’s so nice to have it back. It’ll be my lullaby tonight.
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Posted by Anja on May 25, 2009 at 12:54 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:11Thursday they were all three still there, Friday I only saw two of them — Agent Orange, the bright orange one nowhere to be found. Yesterday we did the big spring cleaning of the pond and he’s definitely gone, not even a body is there. I’ve never seen a heron around, but that’s the only thing I can think of. Especially since they have lots of hiding places they can scoot to, but herons are patient.
We put all the tender plants and tropicals back in yesterday, so now more than half of the surface is covered, three days too late?
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Posted by Anja on May 23, 2009 at 11:55 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 17:08We came home with lots of goodies:
And afterwards we rested our sore feet at the Mexi’s and relaxed with Margaritas and a nice dinner.
That morning Monique had picked me up in the van to go to a couple of nurseries. I have all the pond plants, lots of annuals and a handful of perennials I always wanted. I’ll be a busy planter in the next couple of days. Tomorrow we’ll start with spring cleaning the pond.
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