Leaves and turkeys

The oak trees have started dropping their leaves. It’s only been a few leaves here and there but today it was raining leaves. As fast as we could rake the leaves up, more would fall. At the end of the day, it hardly looked like we had been cleaning up all day. Luckily we had…

Mostly happy koi

Well I have been busy away from the koi ponds. I traveled to Virginia for a few days and my husband surprised me with three new koi from Kloubec Koi Farm in Iowa when I returned. He found a shusui, a midorigoi and an ochiba. The ochiba is a very friendly koi and while he/she…

it’s really feeling like winter is around the corner

We have been busy all week making sure the pond and garden were ready to host the Upper Midwest Koi Club meeting on Saturday.  The weather was a little chilly with a number of cold nights – including one with a forecast of snow showers. Saturday came looking pretty nice and the pond digger was…