It does snow in North Carolina Early December 2024 we had a light dusting of snow. It’s kind of pretty and usually disappears in a few hours. My kind of snow event. January came in with the coolest winter weather temperatures we have experienced since moving to North Carolina. This snow lasted a few days….
Category: My koi
Japanese Maples, Nishikigoi, and Chickens
Hobbies take up a lot of my time. I’m looking forward to retiring in about six years so I can devote all of my time to japanese maples, nishikigoi, vegetable gardening, and keeping the chickens away from the afore mentioned. This year we dove into japanese maples. We had about twenty assorted maple trees (large…
We’re making progress!
Just when I thought our projects were just poking along – we have completed a lot of work the last three weeks. Work on the pond roof started earlier this week and I know it will make a big difference for the koi. The concrete work will be a three feet skirt around the pond….
Still Under Lockdown … but I have some new koi 😄
Two weeks since my last post and a lot has happened. Four new koi flew in on Southwest Airlines in May, all the winter koi moved to the outdoors ponds and one moved back into the quarantine pool due to injury. The upper pond is looking pretty good and all of the koi seem quite…
a little bit of Japan comes home
Our world has been turned upside down with the COVID-19 pandemic. I had hoped to visit the ZNA SoCal show this past weekend and it was cancelled. ZNA Carolina’s show this April has been cancelled. The daily news and increasingly drastic measures to contain the spread of the virus can be pretty depressing. The pond…
Indoors is better
It’s not really that cold in Minnesota yet but the outdoor pond water temperature is around 52 or 53 degrees. The koi in the lower pond looked cold to me. They would swim around half heartedly and barely nibble at any food thrown to them. Quite sad. Meanwhile, the koi from the upper pond came…
Weekend in St. Louis – NMZNA Koi Show
Another posting with mostly photos. I have tried to fill in a little in the captions. So another weekend has flown by. Summer is pretty much over with daily highs in the mid 60s. It won’t be long until everyone is back in the garage!
Another Cute Budo Goromo
If you like your wine big, bold and red, chances are you want something made from the Nebbiolo grape. Earlier this week my newest koi, a budo goromo named Nebbiolo flew in from San Jose. Budo translates into grape. I’m hoping Nebbiolo will grow to be big and bold in the pond. This budo goromo…
Budo Goromo #1 is here
A little over a month ago I was noticing the advertisements for Koi Fest 2018 at Mystic Koi, Upland, California. It always looks like a lot of fun with free lunch, music, koi breeders from Japan and of course lots of great koi to buy. (Even better is that there are deals to be had!!!)…
What’s new in koi world? Not much…
Boring can be a good thing. Exciting can be translated as problems. The koi are all in the summer growth eating mode and going through a lot of food. They always seem hungry. Most of my koi are in the lower pond. Anyone who is at least 10″ is outside. The indoor pool has the…
PP-ing the lower pond
PP – potassium permanganate — Everyone seems to be at ease working with this stuff, but I think it’s kind of scary. Here’s our little adventure… It makes more sense to PP the entire pond since I don’t want to be catching and dipping koi over the next few days. Our consultant asks “Do you…
Tosai Thursday and the Impatient Pond Builder
Spring is here according to the calendar but it’s been delayed a few weeks in Little Siberia (Minnesota). Today we actually got some koi and pond work done. Kevin Pham shipped some tosai to me and they all arrived in great shape. I still have two Kase showas swimming around in San Jose and they’ll…
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