Ponds in Canada

[addy1]

minimal to no clothes is the rule when it is hot and sticky!

 

[callingcolleen1]

This morning by the middle pond the medium sized fish were swarming my hand and now I got little finger suckers that like to be hand fed each morning. This year is the first time that these medium fish started eating out of my hand.

Took the puppies to the river early this morning to beat the heat, had a coffee and sat in the sand by the river, puppies love the river.

 

[j.w]

Neat how they eat right outta your hands. I've never tried that w/ my goldies. Will do when the sun comes back. Do you ever go swimming in that river Colleen? Looks like some kind of big corporation across the way like a power plant or something.

 

[callingcolleen1]

I have swam in the river before many times, my husband and me sometimes go take our blowup boats and floats down the river each year too, don't know if we will this year, bummed that some girl was killed and dumped in there, kind of takes the fun out of river rafting, hardly see anybody this year on the river, they must be thinking the same thing too!

That big plant by the river is our "power plant", powered by natural gas, the city of Medicine Hat has "all hell for a basement" lots of natural gas here! The power plant uses the river water to stay cool, lots of people including myself, have gone to the power plant to swim cause the water is warm on the other side of river, and it come gushing out real nice, and a popular spot for teenage kids to hand out with their girlfriends and party all nite with a bonfire and warm swim!

 

[addy1]

nice! warm river water in canada.

 

[j.w]

Neat Colleen, bet it is fun! Glad it's not a radio active power plant and just the natural gas as wouldn't want you to grow any extra body parts............well unless some might come in handy :razz:

 

[callingcolleen1]

The river sure is nice to go when it's hot out, puppies sure like to swim alot and chase sticks!

Meanwhile at the "bottom pond" where the small goldfish and babies live, my floating water plants are finally growing, same with the Lilly pads and hornwort. All they needed was some heat!
I moved the marsh marigold over more toward the tall sweet flag cause it does tend to die back with the heat, giving the pads and floaters more space as it's now their "time to shine". Pond fish are doing just great, and I have not seen that darn blue heron this year since I hung the twine with strips of cloth high above the pond. All is good with the pond and that makes me happy!

 

[addy1]

Makes me happy too! when all is good in pond world. So far the herons are ignoring up, hope they keep doing that.

I just yanked a ton of water mint from the bog, it is so easy to pull when it decides to grow like a weed lol. I needed my walking path back.

 

[j.w]

Your fish gang looks nice and happy w/ their pretty pond. You plants look good too growing in your nice warm weather. All well here on my pond home front also :goldfish:

 

[sissy]

Full moon and lots of gas interesting place you live in colleen

 

[callingcolleen1]

Addy, don't throw out that aquatic mint, if it's like mine, it makes very good tea and dry's very nice!
Sissy, next month we will have a BLUE MOON, cause we have two full moons in one month! Things should be interesting next month, with all the "lunatics" running around around, and I might be one of them! Ha ha ha....

 

[addy1]

I make tea of it, have a bunch of mint, land and water lol.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Colleen calling, reporting live by the pond, yellow flag water iris is taller than me now, and I'm 5'6" and it's not supposed to get taller than 5 feet (in the wild) as my book says! Must be all the good dog food I feed to the fish, who then must be taking a big "dump" in that iris causing it to grow so abnormally tall! Who knows for sure, all I can tell you for sure is that the pieces I have given away in the past never get that tall in other peoples ponds! Different growing conditions for sure, effect the plants, from water PH to lighting.... has anyone else out there got a yellow flag or seen a yellow flag iris get to tall???

 

[sissy]

geeze they sure are growing good gosh everything is so green and healthy ,here it's crunchy

 

[sissy]

Ok I made my hanging plant holder .I had no place for plants on this side and since colleen started me on grasses I got some fountain grass for 25 cents at lowes a couple of weeks ago