Let's hear whats ponding this weekend?

I'd be surprised if you could see Jan's ponds either...

Checked it out, and my house is almost a direct shot downward, and I can't
make out any pond. Unlike pools that are bright obvious blue, ponds are
just black holes that kind of blend in with shade from trees and such.
Since there is a lot of building going on in our area, to date it, the
photo looks to be almost a year old. ~ jan

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~ janj wrote:
I figured out why I hadn't seen Walter
his body was in the shallows


I am SO sorry to hear about Walter's passing, for me, he was like the
rec.ponds mascot Koi. :'(

Do you think you'll replace him? RP needs a Walter II. ~ jan

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Back last year when I was lurking around a lot on rec.ponds I really
loved your stories and your mentions of Walter....I am sorry to hear of
his passing.... :-(

Gill

~ janj wrote:

Checked it out, and my house is almost a direct shot downward, and I can't
make out any pond.

Gloat warning:

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ima...21&Y=23688&W=1

My pond is the one below and to the right of the bend in the road, and the
house is north of the pond on the right of the road just round the bend (no
snide comments, please!) The clear almost square area below the house is
garden; about 1/4 acre, for scale.

The bass are waking up and prowling the shallows, except for the teenagers
which hang out near the lilies making rude comments to the passers-by.

I'll probably look for another koi; don't know if it will live in an
aquarium first as Walter did, or whether I'll get one too big for the bass
to bother.

Oh, and we've got close to 3 inches of rain in upstate New York since
Saturday morning, after a dry early spring. Just in case, what's a cubit?


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

Gary Woods wrote:
~ janj wrote:


Checked it out, and my house is almost a direct shot downward, and I can't
make out any pond.


Gloat warning:

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ima...21&Y=23688&W=1

My pond is the one below and to the right of the bend in the road, and the
house is north of the pond on the right of the road just round the bend (no
snide comments, please!) The clear almost square area below the house is
garden; about 1/4 acre, for scale.

The bass are waking up and prowling the shallows, except for the teenagers
which hang out near the lilies making rude comments to the passers-by.

I'll probably look for another koi; don't know if it will live in an
aquarium first as Walter did, or whether I'll get one too big for the bass
to bother.

Oh, and we've got close to 3 inches of rain in upstate New York since
Saturday morning, after a dry early spring. Just in case, what's a cubit?


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

Are both of those almost lake things yours? Wow...you are so lucky to
live somewhere with enough land to have ponds like that :-) Suburbia in
the UK very rarely offers that amount of space unless you are loaded
with cash....

Even if you don't replace Walter just yet, could you please start the
stories again - they were a great read :-)

Gill

~ janj wrote:
I potted up the lotus after they had sat for 5 days in clean water.

Did you know that is the recommended thing for lotus divides? I've planted
them directly and had some fail, so we'll see if these do okay after
soaking. By the time I replanted mine, I only had tubers for 2 others
containers to set aside.

Next up was potting up the lily divides, main plants were taken care of
weeks ago, but not all the off shoots. Ended up with 8 of those. Then there
were the cannas, ended up with 7 extra of those.

Went to Costco and got this metal water garden that came with 4 plants.
This will be for my mom's Mom-Day/B-day combined. The plan, she wants
frogs, so I'm hoping this will be big enough to work.

Also hit Lowe's, on the suggestion of a customer at Costco. Did you know
having a mini-pond in your cart is a great conversation started? She told
me Lowe's had quite a few water plants, and boy howdy, was she right.
Nothing new there for me, I either have it or tried and didn't like it. I
did get a couple water hyacinth because it was the only container with 2
small ones in it for $4.97! The others had only 1.

Tomorrow I mow, and clean out the car where the water hyacinth container
spilled out. How was your ponding weekend? ~ jan
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Well, my hint of pond liner hanging around the garden (for months) has
paid off this weekend...hubby now is resigned to the fact that we will
have a pond at some point this spring....as long as he doesn't have to
dig or maintain it he probably won't mind...the danger is that he will
hijack my little pond project and it will become a lot larger - lol

Haven't started digging yet though...too busy digging the rest of the
garden right now - I give it around 3-4 weeks....

Gill

"Gary Woods" wrote in message
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Gloat warning:

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ima...21&Y=23688&W=1

My pond is the one below and to the right of the bend in the road, and the
house is north of the pond on the right of the road just round the bend
(no
snide comments, please!) The clear almost square area below the house is
garden; about 1/4 acre, for scale.

Um, Dude! Your pond is like 5 times bigger then your house! LOL! That's no
POND, it's a lake!

We're gonna need a bigger boat...


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Gareee©
(Gary Tabar Jr.)

Koi-Lo wrote:

"~ janj" wrote in message
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Tomorrow I mow, and clean out the car where the water hyacinth container
spilled out. How was your ponding weekend? ~ jan
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Our whole weekend will be spent repairing the berm on the small pond.



Your whole weekend will be spent like any other weekend, behind a key
board persecuting and harrasing JW's every where!

Gloat warning:

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ima...21&Y=23688&W=1

Wow, looks to be quite a walk when you take one, no wonder you find people
swimming in it from time to time. Can you even see it from the house? What
kind of trees are the majority? ~ jan -- I need a lake, no I don't, yes I
do.

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Truer words were never spoken........

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:35:29 GMT, RedKingFire
wrote:
Koi-Lo wrote:

"~ janj" wrote in message
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Tomorrow I mow, and clean out the car where the water hyacinth container
spilled out. How was your ponding weekend? ~ jan
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Our whole weekend will be spent repairing the berm on the small pond.



Your whole weekend will be spent like any other weekend, behind a key
board persecuting and harrasing JW's every where!

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"Gareee©" wrote in message
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"Koi-Lo" wrote in message
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Thanks to maps.google.com and earth.google.com anyone can view 1 meter
satellite photos.

Depends really on the area, and how good coverage is. Here in Waynesville
NC, coverage is pretty poor. I can locate a water tower near my home, but
that's the smallest detail that can be picked out, and it's pretty large.

I saw the potos/maps used to encourage people to visit me uninvited and
un-announced. I can't really make out anything. They must be very old.

Detail in cities though, like Google headquarters, and Microsoft's
headquarters are outstanding.

The ones I saw of NYC were as well.

Disneyworld is decent, but not great as well.


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