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….
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A lot to do by September 13…
The pond builder and I are working hard to finish a number of projects around the farm before we host the Charlotte Koi Club meeting on the 14th. I hate to jinx the unfinished projects but I do believe the pond might be truly finished by then. Rodney the contractor has disappointed me a few…
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….
January has been quite rainy
2024 started with a road trip from North Carolina to Southern California. We completed the trip over four days and ±2500 miles. Before flying back to North Carolina, I had the opportunity to visit the Dreamworks campus in Glendale. The campus included a vast water feature consisting of waterfalls, pools and a very large, shallow…
Late Summer on the Farm
Life seems so much easier now that the pond is running and the koi are out of the garage. We still have a gazillion tasks like finishing off the last wall of the equipment house, pergola, wood cladding around the pond, landscaping – basically years of work ahead and nothing is ever totally finished. However,…
Still not done
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….
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…
Work on the Koi Pond has resumed
“Did you guys plan on doing this while I was visiting?” asks the pond builder’s son as he toils away today. No we didn’t, but thank goodness the pond builder’s son was hanging around the farm in between his Army assignments. We hired the Octaform consultant to come out for two days to help us…
If a tree falls in the forest
and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Hmmmm, do we really care? Depending on where it falls, there’s a major clean up involved. On Monday, a tree fell out of the forest line in our smallest hayfield. Our forest in this area is filled with a number of trees…
It’s been a busy fall
…but the pond is still not built, super sad face. Today we were notified that the new set of inner panels were completed yesterday and shipping is being set up. It’s too much to expect them to be here next week – maybe the week after that. So no progress on the pond but I…
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