This is a picture of our new fish. We have 8 large fish and 5 little fish. A neighbor gave them to us, as she is dismantling her little waterfall/rapids/pond thing. She said her husband put it in poorly and they need to undo it for an unspecified amount of time. I have to tell you, reader, it is a bit of pressure, knowing that she has had these fish for 5 years (and asked if she could come and visit them), and knowing that I may inadvertently kill them. In spite of all of that, we now have fish in our pond. Which meant Jim had to go to the nursery FIRST thing this morning and get plants. He's been DYING to get plants for this pond. He has searched online for information and pictures, checked books out of the library, and printed off mounds of information. He even called a pond specialty store and went and visited it a few weeks ago. What he won't listen to is every single source of information that is telling him IT IS TOO EARLY TO PUT IN NEW PLANTS. The nice NEW plants you see in this picture are a Monarch butterfly attracting plant on the left, that will flower with nice white flowers (if the frost doesn't kill it) and a papyrus plant on the left, which looks kind of like Yarrow (or: WEEDY). We also have 2 lily pad plants and some random floating plants and a tall grass of some sort. Emma "helped" him put the plants in and she got a great satisfaction out of it and strutted about with fabulous importance that she got to "water the plants". Which is correct in a bizarre, twisting language sort of way. The only frustrating thing was we had to go before the girls' pictures today in their beautiful fluffy Easter dresses, fine shoes and white gloves. Which they were wearing while traipsing through the greenhouses with piles of mud and standing water. We had a quick turn about the place and went to wait in the car until time to go. It all worked out wonderfully and we got some successful pictures, which I will have to figure out how to get them so they can be seen here.
Well, that is all for now. I have some other random computer things to attend and it isn't getting any earlier.
3 comments:
Excellent! Now you can invite people to have a stroll around the grounds! Nothing says "Grounds Stroll" like a koi pond, EH! Note: Make sure you get the pond organized so the fish have somewhere to hide from predators.
Ha! our lot is a pie shaped lot with the largest side about 100' long. So you can pretty much stand on the front sidewalk and see everything INCLUDLING the fish from there. Stroll is over befroe it starts!
i TOTALLY hear you on the Don't Wanna Kill the Dear Animal/Plant/Whatever thought.
but like the lovely lydia said, a ground strolling is loverly :)
our back yard is dinky dinky doooo. the joys of suburbia around here....ah well. if we had a pond it would BE our backyard.
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