Ponds in Canada

[callingcolleen1]

PARTY by the POND in CanaDa!!! Wish you were all here!! My best friend, since we were 4 years old, stopped by tonight. We beat them mosquito's back with a big fire all night, yellow citronella candles burned inside my lovely outdoor bug free living room, and it really is a pretty living room!!

Who would have thought a big cheap net over the large floating umbrella, with a zipper door, would make the outdoors so very pleasing!

 

[j.w]

Wish we could have all been there too Colleen! It looks like you had fun and you need some fun after that flood thing you went through. Must be kind of quiet around your neighborhood at night w/ lots of people not living in their homes.

 

[CometKeith]

Colleen, great idea about the net and umbrella to hang out with friends. Right now I feel like I am trapped inside. Tons of mosquitoes outside and scratching bites as I write this, 85 degrees and humid this evening, and freezing cold inside! This is what I waited all winter for??

 

[callingcolleen1]

Good grief!! I got a brand new computer but don't know how to work it, the pictures are just great, but I can't figure out how the darn thing works! I will have to go back to that computer shop and get them to show me how it works again..... I need a computer course or something.... my sister is coming over maybe she can help....

 

[j.w]

Does it have Windows 8 on it cuz that is totally different from other windows from the past and lots don't like it. I just have my little netbook w/ Windows 7 and my desktop is still plugging away w/XP.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Yes JW, it does have windows. I am just getting used to the keyboard. never had a key board before. it was a screen tablet. it is an ultrabook made by ASUS I paid lots of money for this notebook. like 900 dollars. plus 100 fee to get it installed, but think I may take the computer course and learn some stuff. I can do lots more and the pond pictures can be sent from my cell phone to this device by blue tooth feature, like the tablet.

took these pictures by the pond today and got eaten alive! My feet are very itchy, bugs were biting under my pant legs.... Blue toothed them from the cell phone over to the new notebook. Just now figured out all myself how to attach the pictures.... From the new Computer Note book to you!!

 

[mtpond]

Nice pictures of your fish Colleen. How many koi do you have in you ponds? This year my koi are a lot friendlier then they were last year so maybe I can get some good pictures of them. Every time I walk up to the pond they are right there wondering if they are going to get fed or not. . I only have one goldfish and it's not as friendly as the koi.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Thanks Mypond, The Koi I have seem more aware of their surroundings than the goldfish, I also think the Koi are easier to tame and seem to reeconize me. I have right now in the upper ponds about 6 Koi, a couple are still up at my sisters house in her pea green pond, and they are hard to catch in her pond cause I can't see them. I had taken a couple smaller Koi and a few goldfish up to her house when we had a flood threat last month, just in case of worst case flooding, I thought they would not all be gone at least. The worst case flood did not happen and no flood water touched my house, but now I am having a hard time getting my other two koi back from her pond, so maybe later her pond will clear up and we will see to catch them. My two oldest koi that I have had for over 20 years seem to be able to tell me apart from strangers, and they have at times appeared to be aggressive towards strangers, throwing large amounts of water with their big strong tails over the ponds and "making strange" with strangers, and swim around the pond in a very fast manner.

This one very large orange Koi is the biggest of them all. The two largest have not seen a net catch them for at least 15 years or longer, They have no fear of me and demand huge a amounts of dog food, which is their most favorite food of all.

 

[j.w]

You have a monster of a fish there Colleen! Your water sure is sparking clear too.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Thanks JW, and just in case people mistake the massive hoards of mosquito plaquing this city right now, they not due to my ponds. I have been running ponds non stop for over 20 years and never can I remember so many mosquitos ever. But the grass lands were recently flooded when the creek and river spilled their banks last month, then we got lots of rain, hence the plaques of mosquitos! I had to run for my life this morning when I left the house, ran to the truck, and still those mosquitos got me! My legs and arms, elbows and knees, even my feet and toes were not spared the wrath of the mosquitoes. I am all itchy from bites, even the top of my Head!!

 

[CometKeith]

Colleen, They spray for mosquitoes here. Supposedly it is harmless to people, but last year when they sprayed all my baby tadpoles that were only a few weeks old died in about 24 hours.

 

[addy1]

We have been really wet this year, in md, have not seen any mosquitoes yet. Down here, fl, you would think there would be tons of them. I walk the pup early am and have not been bitten once.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Since the next door neighbors sprayed weed killer, I have not seen any water spiders on the pond. That guy never used to spray the weeds before ever! I never minded his dandylions as so why start spraying now after all these years?

Then I think some of the small goldfish from the bottom pond are missing.... Last week there was lots of splashing noise in the front pond, and I only have small rosy minnows in there that could not have made such splashing noise at night. I suspect the snakes are back like last year, they showed up in July and small fish went missing.... Oh well, Fish crowd control is here!!

On a bright note, the roses out front that got flooded a short while ago are now blooming like crazy!

 

[j.w]

That's a bummer Colleen and hope he is done spraying for the year! Wonder if his spraying killed off some skeeters too?
Sorry about the little babies missing but guess the snakes gotta eat too. Good he won't get your bigger fish tho.
Love all your pretty blooms :blueflower:
I and hubby played in the dirt today. All done and now it's all getting a good watering. I'm covered w/ dirt!

 

[gardengirl]

colleen those roses look gorgeous. And those fish are enormous!! They look like they just love you when you come to see them,