We had a goal to move the koi into the pond by May 15th. That would be about two years after we started cutting down the first privets in this area. Unfortunately life interferes and we do have real day jobs. When I pout, the pond builder pointed out that our jobs fund the pond….
Author: lorivertin
Staying busy with koi, pond and the farm
I feel this spring we are racing around, busier than ever. My “to-do” list keeps increasing. I’m taking advantage of a long plane flight to catch up. Japanese Black Pines and Japanese Maples. Japanese black pine, matsu, symbolizes endurance and eternity in Japan. These pines are featured in kabuki and noh theater as background scenery…
Black is my new favorite color
My painting shirt has a lot of flat black exterior paint spots now. We have made a lot of progress on the pond equipment house. I have been painting rafters, battens and trim on the water pump house. Our idea is to make these little structure look a little on the boring side so that…
Two steps forward
A lot of progress has been made on the equipment house for the pond. I was really hoping to post a photo with a completed roof but we had some very rainy weather that our contractor wanted to avoid. If he had not decided to skip one of the sunny days earlier in the week,…
More spring projects
The fun never seems to stop on the farm. More progress towards the pond with the delivery of the second profi-drum. We will have two profi-drums and two bakki showers in our equipment house for pond filtration. There is a fair amount of room so we will not be crowded and can add a bead…
We are making progress!
A few days ago we had our last frosty evening, kind of like winter’s last hurrah. With temperatures in the 70s and 80s, the whole farm has really turned quite green, plenty of pollen and so many things starting to bloom. We had a busy weekend on the farm getting the vegetable garden ready for…
It’s feeling like Spring
I am so thankful that I no longer live in Little Siberia (Minnesota). Earlier this week, Minnesota was shutting down under the threat of 20 inches of snow. Meanwhile, on the farm, the chickens were enjoying 70° weather…and the pond builder and I were almost uncomfortably warm in Fort Worth, Texas. Punxsutawney Phil may have…
I won some koi food …
which is really a nice thing since the koi food I purchase is about $8.00 per pound. Last month I was texting a koi dealer, Taro Kodama to thank him for letting us use a reference chart on the Kodama Koi Farm website. A few days later he texted me that he had found a…
Tamago Kake Gohan (TKG)
The first farm egg finally showed up two days ago. Today I had some tamago kake gohan (TKG) for the first time in decades. Raw egg over hot rice – super yummy! When I was young, we purchased our eggs at a local egg farm. Eventually they closed and we had to buy our eggs…
21 months and we’re at another milestone
Friday, January 6, 2023 was a big day. Concrete work for the koi pond is finally done! There might be some more random concrete in the future but our pond walls and lower half of the equipment house are finally finished It took us about six months to decide where our last koi pond was…
Pond Story 2022
We really had high hopes to have a completed pond by Memorial Day 2022. That idea became the 4th of July Pond. Then we were hoping for a Halloween Pond. I believe I can safely say that our pond should be complete in Spring 2023. My koi will have spent almost two years in our…
Messy but we’re making progress
Between rain, our schedule, the concrete contract’s schedule – progress on the pond is quite slow. We are finally seeing the end of the tunnel for concrete work. It’s been very cold in North Carolina and this morning we were below freezing at 27°! Our concrete contractor did not want to pour today hoping the…
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