pond hypnosis

[HARO]

yep haro must be it .We just celebrated 40 years on Feb. 18th so we got married young .He is stuck with me . :cheerful:
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So .... you must have been what... twelve??
John

 

[davepratt]

Ok ok i wasnt tryin to turn this forum into a relationship session i eas just sayin i stare at my pond alot WOW

 

[HARO]

That's what happens when you stare at your pond too long, Dave..... your mind wanders! :cheerful:
John

 

[Dave 54]

No kidding John the answer to the equasion is 42 by the way lol

rgrds

Dave

 

[sissy]

we get to wondering on the posts about things in our lives that's what makes this sight great we can say things to make it all more personal and friendly forum ,not to stuffy that way we get laugh's too . ha ha haro I was 13 nope I was 10 nope i was 6 :cheerful: nope i''m lost on that one .I was actually 19 and owned my own home .I was a smart chick .Worked from the age of 16 .Stubborn wanted my own fixer upper home

 

[Carolyn22]

That's what happens when you stare at your pond too long, Dave..... your mind wanders! :cheerful:
John

Not a bad thing for the mind to wonder. I find that I solve a lot of problems this way. I have always required time alone to think and I have found as I have gotten older and more things have gone on in my life, that I had forgotten that I needed that time. Being out by the pond - particularly by myself - I have that time to think and work things through in my mind. Definitely not a bad thing.

 

[DrCase]

Ok ok i wasnt tryin to turn this forum into a relationship session i eas just sayin i stare at my pond alot WOW

I get the same feling looking at my deer food plots

 

[sissy]

I feed the deer and give them fresh water and love to sit and stare at them eating especially when they have babies with them in the spring

 

[addy1]

I do a wildlife planting, grasses, flowers they like to eat in the back field. Let them snack away. Even planted some knockout roses for them to nibble on.

 

[MitchM]

It's great when you both support each other's hobbies.


Speaking of deer, I ran over a baby deer with my Polaris the other week - no harm done, don't worry!
I was going through a field with deep grass and came upon what I though was a log. It turned out to a baby deer curled up in the long grass. I stopped just over top of it and backed up.
The deer scrambled up and ran into the forest where hopefully mommy deer was hiding.
Very nice to see.
That's why I don't like driving through deep grass.

 

[agapanthus]

So glad I stumbled onto this discussion! I spend a lot of time looking at my pond, too. I'm lucky my Hubby is in the Nursery business because when I want to know about a new plant I just ask him, he will try to get it for me if he can! Been married 39 years and this must be a good place to live because we have an extended family living with us: Our son who is going to college( and helps with our own nursery plants), our daughter and her husband (they are trying to pay off bills so they can get their own place) and my sister, who is Downs Syndrome!! I do indeed look at my pond a LOT!! (At least our oldest daughter is out on her own.)

 

[addy1]

you have a house full!

 

[VanDiesil]

My wife knows where to find me: either by the pond having a smoke, tending to the tropical finches that I also keep & breed or if the car is not on the driveway, down the lake where I fish looking for & watching the 30lb+ carp in there. One way or another it involves water, fish or the birds lol

 

[Arey]

As a batchelor in his early seventies, I'm no one to comment on relationships. I have had a long term relationship with Principessa Gavia, but the darn distributor for my favorite discount liquor store severed the relationship recently. I suppose I could join one of those online dating sites "Single white male, owns own home would like to establish a long term relationship with white that goes well with crabcakes, scallops and lobster. Price no object as long as it's below $20.00"

Getting back to pond hypnosis, I can spend a lot of time just staring deply into my pond. My raised pond is circular and the surrounding circle is divided into quarters. The back two quarters have sedums on the south side and usually has sweet alyssum on the north side, only this spring doesn't because I was still in a funk over Superstorm Sandy and didn't plant it. Mother Nature and I have a troubled relationship and it sometimes becomes an adverserial relationship. The front half oft the pond surround is an herb garden with chives, basil, garlic chives, thyme,Greek oregano and dill.

In each quarter there is a cut out space where I can kneel on top of the rocks surrounding the pond and look directly into the water. Right now there is not a lot to look at since the wildlife has to re-establish itself, but I still find it fascinating to look at this little world within a world whose inhabitants go through their life unaware that there is any other world besides theres. This can lead to all sorts of serious thoughts about religion, politics, life, nature , climate change, and all those other important things. More often it leads to thoughts about algae control, the ants who have their nest beneath the rock I'm kneeling and resent my intrusion, and is there any way to get rid of the muck on the bottom of the pond without destroying the wildlife.