It’s Fall now and I feel I have missed a great deal of the beautiful Minnesota summer this year. I certainly have been a little behind in posting, so I’m going to play catch up. Mostly photos but read the captions… First up is a video of the koi taken about a week ago. All…
Category: 2016 pond work
Cleaning up the Lower Pond
Our lower pond has been taken over by string algae! The algae had gotten so thick it was clogging up the bottom drain. The pond digger decided that drastic action needed to be taken and he drained the pond. Over ten hours, he thoroughly scrubbed the walls of string algae. While the pond was being…
“Do you have a picture of this?”
It’s not even July 1 and our major pond structures and landscaping are done. It’s actually unsettling to have all this time to do more bike riding, hang around, relax more…the pond digger is having a little work withdrawal symptoms. However, I can not say enough about our contractor. He promised us a July finish…
The waterfall is finished!!!
Memorial Day weekend and we have much of the pond work done. The upper pond’s waterfall was finally finished and all the plants have been planted and mulched. The pond digger has been working on pouring concrete into the supporting posts for the lower pond shade element and the screen elements behind the upper pond’s…
Another weekend working around the ponds
The koi are enjoying outdoor pond life:
Making progress around the ponds…
All the koi are finally in the pond. We had one goshiki in quarantine but Carmen seemed very sad and lonely. So we decided to shorten quarantine for Carmen as well. The koi are all swimming around the pond and enjoying being in the school of big koi and the school of little koi. I’m…
A Lucky Koi Keeper
I’m pretty lucky to be married to someone who works so hard to build exactly what I want. Today the pond digger and I worked on the waterfall. The landscape designer suggested we put a little curve in it. The pond digger saw a photo on Facebook of the waterfalls at the Mirage in Las…
Shiros in the Lower Pond
The lower pond is finally open and some of the koi are enjoying life outdoors again. We first put in Jet Li, a Kikokuryu to test out the pond. Since it’s always sad to have only one koi, we let Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid swim around for the evening with Jet Li. I…
Sunshine or Rain – we got a lot of work done
A ton of work was completed this weekend: The lower pond was started up with almost all of the equipment hooked up! The pond digger finished up the work in between raindrops today. See this PAGE for photos. The upper pond waterfall was cleared and is ready for changes. Near the upper pond waterfall, the little…
Catching up – it’s almost spring (for good)
Today it’s around 35 degrees and tomorrow it will be almost 60 degrees. The next two weeks will generally be around 50 degrees so perhaps spring is finally here for good. I used to live in Northern Virginia and by this time all the cherry trees are blooming, the tulips have come and gone, tree…
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