Rec.ponds Roll Call?

Kirsten, 49, just relocated to Marietta, GA (just north of Atlanta) from San
Diego after 30 years there--just couldn't come up with half a mil++ to buy a
house there! One of the reasons I bought my house here was because of the
pond...little did I know what was involved :-)
I sell clothes at Nordstrom Department Store, travel, have two "kids"
Joey, my orange tabby and Charlie-girl, my black Persian mutt kitty.
Currently have five goldfish--one being the sole survivor from the former
owner who said, "there might be fish in there, I'm not sure"! I decided he
needed buddies, and it's so cool to see him swimming right next to them all
the time.
"matrix j" wrote in message
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Just wondering if rec.ponds ever does a roll call every now and then?

Just to see where everyone is from and what other interests and hobbies
they may have?

I'm a civil War Re-enactor. I have been on A&E, History Channel,ect. I
was also in God's and Generals the movie. So between that and ponding I
have no time for anything else.

Once in a while I get to a car show. Me and my wife Rosemary have a
customed PT Cruiser we show.

We live in Lima, Ohio



http://community.webtv.net/rebeljoe/POND

WHOA! I started this..i better join in!

Jesse Guerrero age 36
Corpus Christi Tx
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Favorite food: BBQ Ribs beef and pork

Favorite Music: Latin, Rock, Country, Opera,

Favorite singers: Placido Domingo Paulina Rubio, Willie Nelson, "Old
blue eyes"

Hobbies: Ponding, Gardening, Autograph collecting, Comic collecting, DIY
home carpentry, Home Theatre design,

Turn ons: Positive people

Turn offs: People who bitch and complain and suspended ALGAE :-) ---on
topic

Last book i read: "Anthem"

Favorite Movies: The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Phantasm,

Favorite Actors: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood

I have been ponding for about 13 years and love it! I started out with a
small hole in the ground with ten giant koi...then i caught the
fever...you must make it bigger! lol

I am in the process of once again making my pond bigger and hopefully it
will be the last time for years to come....

(((("""yea right"))))

Also i have been coming here for about 3 years for advice and helping
others when I can.

I still have TONS to learn!

Dave 65 and Carrie 57 retired and recently left MD/DC area for beautiful WV.
Ex-physicist and ex-computer analyst. We have 3 adult sons between us

Had a small pond when I lived in VA and built a slightly larger one when I
moved to my wife’s house in MD. My third one here in WV is the largest at
about 1400 gallons. Still tuning the waterfalls, so we have not introduced fish
yet.
Dave
http://members.tripod.com/~VideoDave

My name is Godwin, I am a recovering PORG? Heck no, I am deep into PORG and
loving it.

In order to afford my PORG habits I practice Architecture on the side. I am
a Principal in one of the largest Architectural Firms on the West Coast of
USA.
My Younger Brother and I are in to this Koi habit (see his pond pictures in
my link below)

In addition to ponding, I collect classic American Cars (V8), and I love
Fishing (California to Mexico, to Canada, to Alaska) What a dichotomy!
I also love to travel. My family and I just got back from a Father's Day
trip to Mexico. Puerto Nuevo....All the Lobster I can eat......

My biggest interest for sure though is my family! My 3 brothers, 2 sisters,
mother (my father passed away), wife, and other family members. The worth
of a man is the family that loves him.

And I look forward to a friendly contest with BV as the resident court
jester! (He does have a head start on me though, being that English is my
second language!)

--
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"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is
like an eggs-and-ham breakfast:
The chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

http://community.webshots.com/user/godwino

"matrix j" wrote in message
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Just wondering if rec.ponds ever does a roll call every now and then?

Just to see where everyone is from and what other interests and hobbies
they may have?

Name is Karen, a widow with 2 kids Todd 27 and Jennifer 19 who dug my first
pond in Houston in 1997. It was about 1000 gallons. Moved to Ohio in 2000 and
dug a 4000 gallon pond and brought all my fish with me to Ohio.

Love to garden, into genealogy, cross stitch, read lots, am also a grandmother
and an artist and photographer and work for the city I live in's transportation
dept to keep the bills paid.
Zone 5
Ashland, OH
http://hometown.aol.com/kmam1/MyPond/MyPond.html
My Art Studio at
http://members.aol.com/kmmstudios/K....M.Studios.html
for email remove the extra extention

http://community-2.webtv.net/mkbfw/ABITABOUTME/ Marykate here from
Indiana, lost my husband Joe in sept. 02 from cancer...hate the word
even, so it's made me look at life much closer. I'm a nurse in long term
care and I love it. Just started ponding this year with 150 gallon pond
and I'm already drawing up a diagram for a new and improved
one...imagine that..lol... The 150 gallon pond will soon become an
island pond in the new one....God but I love this hobby :-) All of you
in this group are so helpful and the info I've gotten has been great !!
ty ty ty oh I'll be 50 this november so while building this backyard
get away pond I'm always thinking how enjoyable it will be to retire to
my back yard...if building it doesn't do me in..lol

"matrix j" wrote in message
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Just wondering if rec.ponds ever does a roll call every now and then?

Just to see where everyone is from and what other interests and hobbies
they may have?

BV aka Jeff from Ellicott City, MD. So we're a zone 6ish pond. We get a hard
freeze in the winter, and 100+ temps in the summer.

I have one pond that is roughly 3000 gallons. I use a second smaller pond as
a VF, which overflows a stream back to the main pond. No UV and no
artificial, mechanical filtration. I used 45 mil EPDM for both ponds, and am
currently lining the stream with a layer of concrete for aesthetic purposes.
The plumbing is all 4'' PVC. We have a bottom drain, and use a 1000gph
Beckett pump.

I've got 4 Petsmart Koi mutts, 4 average goldies, and 1 glorious comet. Oh,
and we have somewhere around a bazillion fat head minnows.

The pond has been designed to be a natural looking, wildlife-friendly pond.
Rocks are used as an accent and do not line the entire perimeter. The
wildlife has crept in, and the pond is now home to at least 3-4 species of
frogs that live en masse in and around the pond.

You'll hear my pond refered to as Shareholders Pond and sometimes Rainbow
pond. To make a long story short, we've had some color issues with our
water. First clay, and then a painful experiment with dye. Nuff said? All
water parameters rock solid through both fiascos. LOL.

Other hobbies? BBQ'ing, rock climbing, music, my kids, F1 racing, and
anything that involves beer.

I got into ponding about 1.5 years ago, and dove in head first. I now have
my second pond liner in the yard ready to be sunk, and BTW, I traded a beer
for this liner. It's a hard preformed liner. I also have a piece of liner
ready for my soon to be installed Lotus garden.

Yes, I am a PORG, and damn proud of it.

BV.

"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
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"matrix j" wrote in message
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Just wondering if rec.ponds ever does a roll call every now and then?

Just to see where everyone is from and what other interests and hobbies
they may have?

BV aka Jeff from Ellicott City, MD. So we're a zone 6ish pond. We get a
hard
freeze in the winter, and 100+ temps in the summer.
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Oops...forgot my links...

http://www.darofamily.com/jeff is my personal site. Pix of the pond are in
my photo album.

http://www.iheartmypond.com is a pond site that I am working on as a free
searchable pond DB.

BV.

"matrix j" wrote in message
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Just wondering if rec.ponds ever does a roll call every now and then?

Just to see where everyone is from and what other interests and hobbies
they may have?

If I could be so bold, I'd love it if everyone went over to
http://www.iheartmypond.com/General/...es/default.asp and added their
pond sites to the database! It'd be cool to have a single place for all of
us rec.ponders to hit for web sites.

BV.