Hi from Montana!

[addy1]

Beautiful! So glad it turned out great and good weather

 

[mtpond]

A deer must of fell in the pond the other night. I had two containers with lilies sitting on the fish tunnel and one was upside down on the bottom of the pond ( lilies floating ) and the other container was sitting on the bottom of the pond with lilies still in the container. Since we have put in the pond other then once during the first winter that we started our pond we haven't had any trouble with the deer getting into the pond because we have three springs within about a two acre area that run year round. All fourteen fish are still accounted for so that's my story and I'm sticking to it . Tonight when I came home from work I had my first lily open . Thanks Patti it was a white flower and that one I got from you. I can see five other buds coming up around the pond so can't wait to see what colors they are.

 

[addy1]

At least deer don't eat fish!

 

[CountryEscape]

MT, I have a few lilies that were not put firmly enough back into pots, figuring I would be tossing them or mailing them, and they are growing just fine! I did mail them off this week, though, and one of them had at least 3 blooms on it. Leaves were not really long stemmed, since it was floating on the surface, but the plants were really healthy looking. And, I have a pot that fell off of a shelf, landed face up on the bottom of the pond, and it's growing just fine. Takes a little longer for the leaves and blooms to reach the surface, but it's doing fine.
Hey, I just thought of something! Wondering if that is one of my GA Peach lilies, and the reason I'm not seeing any blooms is because it's too deep! I'd better get that sucker pulled up higher, just in case! Been hot here all week, in the 90's but only high 70's this weekend. Water should still be plenty warm to get into the ponds, though. Need to groom lilies, pull all the dead leaves and bud stems off.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Going to be hot on Saturday here, calling for 95 degrees!! Maybe it will burn up the mosquito's!
Lets hope that deer falling in the pond doesn't happen again or you will have to put up a "deer crossing" sign! Ha ha

 

[CountryEscape]

Haha, like that lady that said the State needed to move the deer crossing signs so the deer would not cross at those busy intersections! LOL Yeppers, she needs a "no deer swimming allowed" sign on her pond. :banana:

 

[mtpond]

LOL CE!

 

[HTH]

Unless you seen deer prints I would bet on a raccoon. If you are lucky they visit make a mess and don't leave fish parts laying around.

Resist temptation to tell story.

 

[callingcolleen1]

I hear them raccoons are very bad and love to fish in the water!

 

[gardengirl]

They don't care to get their hands wet for a scrumptious meal.

 

[mtpond]

Thinking no raccoons. Containers were one and half to two feet under water and pretty secure on a fish tunnel. Something would of had to fall in the water to knock the containers to the bottom of the pond.

 

[mtpond]

We have discovered that we have not one but two deer ( bucks) living in our old chicken coupe. There's a young one that his horns are little buttons and one that's two to three years old with a nice rack starting to grow. Since I work I don't get to see it but hubby says the young buck is in there most of the time during the day when it's hot. I don't get it, I don't know why these deer think they can come and take things over. LOL. We have one doe that lays in the yard and she jumps our fence and eats our cat food. My hubby thought the water dish had a leak in it until he seen her drinking out of it. Lol. Don't really see bucks a lot, but this year we have. Just Sunday we saw two nice bucks on our hill. Back to ponding my pond is doing great need to order a new filter .

 

[j.w]

Neat that you have them living right there w/ you! We have some here but they are shy and stay mostly in the tall grass of the field across from us. Love seeing them!

 

[CountryEscape]

I want to see pics of the bucks in your chicken coop!!! How do you keep the chickens in if the deer are able to get in there? My chickens would have flown out if the fence was low enough for a deer to jump in. So funny! They come in where it's cooler, and drink your cat's water and eat it's food. How rude! LOL

 

[mtpond]

We don't have chickens anymore and right now we don't have a door on the chicken coupe so I guess they figure it's ok to take up residents in there. I'll work on trying to get a picture.