Ponds in Canada

[waynefrcan]

I missed this news Colleen. Hope he recovers well!!

Isn't our cheap cost Government run health care great!!!! Just a friendly jab to our USA friends lol.

I'm ready for some plant, shrub, tree ideas, if you have time.

http://www.gardenpon...948#entry142948

 

[callingcolleen1]

Well the leaves are really falling now, you can see the net keeps most leaf litter out of the pond. Pond pictures just taken now....

 

[j.w]

Ha ha ha how cute your pup looks in his costume and I like your toes

 

[addy1]

Those are cute toes and pup! Our leaves are just starting to drop, luckily if the wind blows right, most of the leaves miss the pond. The big maple behind the pond, its leaves head out in the field.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Toes shoes are so comfortable and you can bend down better on your toes (and get thoese weeds) without squashing the poor "little piggys"! I got them just for for garden but now I find they work so well I wear them everywhere!

If your going to try some on next time your shopping, you got to "wiggle" the little toes in place, and you might have to try on several different types of toe shoes till you find one that fits good. They do stretch and mine wash well in the machine too.

It feels so natural walking in the garden with them on, and you don't have to worry about me stepping on little "Poppy" feet cause I can "feel them"!

 

[j.w]

Never ever seen those things before and are you sure you're not a space alien Colleen cuz you have some really interesting things and ideas that are so new to me at times :alieneyesa:

 

[Dave 54]

If your after Canadian fish keepers I have a good friend in Fort St John called Elaine and on the koi keeperunleashed website there is a chap by the name of Serin.
I could ask them both if they would like to contact you ?
Just PM me and let me know , I'm due to write to Elaine this week and I can PM Serin .
Elaine has trouble with freezing temperatures of -24c and a windchill of -54c so much so she now moves her koi and goldfish into her husbands workshop each winter , what temperatures do you have to contend with and where in Canada do you live

rgrds

Dave

 

[callingcolleen1]

Thanks Dave, here in Medicine Hat, we get some of the coldest weather on planet Earth! (Zone 2) We get minus 45c (and sometimes colder) and that's not the wind chill either. In the middle of winter we get what's called a Chinook, it can go from minus 45 to plus 5 overnight, and then we all get crazy and it's like "ya ho! HEATWAVE Bring out the pool, get the shorts on!!! ha ha ha

I winter the fish with a big 1500watt cattle trough heater, and I still get lots of ice on the three ponds that circulate together, but under the ice the water still flows. The bottom pond can get a foot of ice in some areas, I can walk over top of the ice and see the fish! The bottom pond gets the most ice, so I have the small goldfish there. The top and middle pond can appear quite froze too, but I keep the pumps running from pond to pond and the water ways freeze right over top, but under the ice, just like a river or creek, the water still flows. Been wintering the fish for 20 years this way, nobody in the pond seems sick or unhappy... the sick and week just sort of disapear.... from time to time. (Someone comes and takes them away to the hospital where they all make a fast recovery) (ya right, that's what happens, sure...)
Really, the fish do very well UNDER the ice but not IN the ICE! Some of my fish are over 20 years old now.

 

[callingcolleen1]

JW, did I mention that my dad is an alien? That's what happened to me, ... now it's all coming together, that's why my shoes look so funny, JW did you check and count the number of toes to be sure? Ha ha ha he he he!!! But seriously you can get these shoes now at any sports store, the aliens have got their "foot in the door now" and their into everything here on planet earth, ops! My big mouth! Now the mother ship is going to take me away this time for sure! Ha ha ha :

 

[callingcolleen1]

OK, some pictures of the yard and pond, leaves are EvERyWeRe! Going to rake as soon as this HORRID wind quits! Surprised my stuff has not blow to Kingdom Come!!!

Yes, wInTeR is a CoMmInG, TrEE SpOOks on the LooSE, darting between trees.... can you see the breeze?

 

[j.w]

Your place looks like so much fun Colleen!

 

[Fishylove]

my 6 yr old is looking at your picutures Colleen.... He loves ur pumpkins!

 

[callingcolleen1]

Today on the way home from park, there were five deer across the street. Poppy and Bear were "excited" at the thought of "all you can eat deer"! Front pond going to get "worked over" tomorrow for sure.... look at that mess after the wind storm!

 

[j.w]

That's weird that they are right there amongst all the houses and not afraid at all. What happens if you go outside, do they run away?

 

[callingcolleen1]

"No", those deer just all stand there and stare! They could at least have the "decency" to run away when Poppy barks!! Poor Poppy, she's going to get a "complex"! What will the other puppies think!