Let's hear whats ponding this weekend?

~ 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

"~ janj" wrote in message
...
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
==========
The one of our property has to be prior to the mid-late 1980s as all there
is to see really are some old farm buildings that were torn down many years
ago on the land next to me - if indeed the pic is of our property. There's
a large mobile home on that lot now, and has been since at least 1988. No
one else's house shows, including mine. Nothing in the photo looked
familiar. But then they changed the addresses out here about 12 years ago,
so...........
--
Koi-Lo....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
Aquariums since 1952.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
http://www.hyphenologist.co.uk/killfile/
*Note: There are several *Koi-Lo's* on rec.ponds.
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Koi-Lo wrote:

"~ janj" wrote in message
...
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!

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

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

"~ janj" wrote in message
...
Tomorrow I mow, and clean out the car where the water hyacinth container
spilled out. How was your ponding weekend? ~ jan
--------------
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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~ janj wrote:

How was your ponding weekend?

Well.... not so great; it's been too cold for much to be happening, though
the hardy lilies are waking up. And I figured out why I hadn't seen Walter
the solitary koi in a bass-infested pond; his body was in the shallows
after the water dropped a few inches from winter's high. He was perhaps
ten years old, and outlived his mistress by nearly five years.
Otherwise, we're getting a nice chilly drizzle to wet down the new seeds in
the garden, and to green up the grass, after a dry early spring.
And despite it all, life goes on. Perhaps that's reward enough!

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

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

-----------------
(Do you know where your water quality is?)

~ 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

-----------------
(Do you know where your water quality is?)

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:
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
--------------
See my ponds and filter design:
www.jjspond.us

~Keep 'em Wet!~
Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a
To e-mail see website


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

"Gill Passman" wrote in message
...

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
===============================
You'll get to a pond.... it's inevitable. ;-)

We got the forms in today and part of the berm cemented. The koi are doing
fine in the 500g tank behind the house. We were worried about ammonia
(N-Cycle) but there's none. We used their filter plus the one from the 780g
tank of fingerlings I recently sold. So we can take our time and do a
really good job.
--
Koi-Lo....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
Aquariums since 1952.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
rec.pond's FAQ are at:
http://www.geocities.com/justinm090/faq.html
~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o

Like I posted earlier who ghives a **** Carol? Oh I forgot Derek does!
my bad!

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:38:39 -0500, "Koi-Lo"
wrote:

"Gill Passman" wrote in message
...

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
===============================
You'll get to a pond.... it's inevitable. ;-)

We got the forms in today and part of the berm cemented. The koi are doing
fine in the 500g tank behind the house. We were worried about ammonia
(N-Cycle) but there's none. We used their filter plus the one from the 780g
tank of fingerlings I recently sold. So we can take our time and do a
really good job.

--
\\\|///
( @ @ )
-----------oOOo(_)oOOo---------------


oooO
---------( )----Oooo----------------
\ ( ( )
\_) ) /
(_/
The original frugal ponder ! Koi-ahoi mates....