A little horseback riding accident in Canada has me sidelined from yardwork and spending time around the ponds. I hope to be back out there in about two weeks but will have to be careful. I had a skin graft procedure to close a 4″ lower leg laceration and have spent the last few days…
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Checking Tosai & Tearing Down a Shed
We have a little more time to do some fun stuff with the koi. The upper pond koi are growing before our eyes and eating a ton of food. Everyone except Nora. I think Nora is my vegan koi – she is always eating algae and doesn’t really seem to care for the koi food…
Sunday gardening
Another pleasant day outside working on smaller garden projects. So far this weekend, the pond digger has redone a portion of the fence sections, cleaned up/recycled old pond liner, cleaned up the wood scrap pile, spread at least 15 bags of pea gravel, replanted a number of plants for me and made a grape vine…
“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…
It’s Saturday – we’re working outside…
The weekend is here and it’s going to be pretty hot in Minnesota. Heat doesn’t stop the yard work! This week we got a little more work done on our shade element. Our contractor put in the bamboo screen and set the top bar support for the rays. He’s going to be working on another…
Another missing koi :-(
Actually two more missing koi! At lunchtime we were sitting by the pond and noticed that Dale was missing. Once again a search of the RDF and nothing. Tonight we looked in the pond and realized that Jet Li is also missing. The pond digger tried blowing the TPRs harder but the little guys were…
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…
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…
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…
Winter to Spring
We really must be crazy to spend practically every weekend doing pond and garden work. Spring and summer are pretty short in Minnesota so we have to use every hour we can to get the koi in the ponds and have the gardens looking nice. This year our ponds and garden will be on the…
It always looks worse before getting better…
In Minnesota, the little saying must be “April snow showers bring May flowers.” We had a little snow event before the weekend and I’m hoping the chillier temperatures are really on their way out since Spring arrived almost a month ago. We have had a few 50-60 degree teaser days but for the most part…
Another day in the garden
Lots of work still going around the equipment pit. The pond digger has undone some of the old concrete and poured some new concrete to accommodate the moving bed filter in a different spot. Since the equipment area is going to be a busy zone, we dug up the plants. The pond digger tries to…
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