Ponds in Canada

[addy1]

Beautiful Colleen!
We have had so much rain, now horrible heat, every seed in the world is growing in our yard! I need to try that corn stuff see if it will stop some of the seed growth.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Thank you all for the lovely comments, had to work extra hours at work cause new guy quit, work was too hard, and then the manager is away, and people on vacation. I get this weekend off and I am going downtown to sample all the chilli at the Annual Chilli cook off on Saturday, (with mom) and on Sunday me and the mother are going to the Garden show, as they are showing ten houses and we love to snoop and see what others have "growing on" ha ha ha.

The mosquitoes are not quite as bad anymore, the hot weather is killing them off slowly. I am getting used to the bites and what the heck, they just need a little blood donation, and I already had West Nile about five years ago, that lasted about a week or so for me. West Nile made me really tired back then for about a week or so, and then it blurred my vision, made me dizzy, and made my brain feel like it was shaking every time I took a step... it can cause swelling on the brain, but I was not really sick other than that, and now I think I am ammune to west Nile. But I don't recommend getting bitten by mosquitos, as some people who got bit got quite sick that I know. What I would like to know is how the west Nile mosquito made the trip all the way up north from the West Nile! Ha ha ha!

Fishy love, my big koi run when they see me coming, and there mouths open wide for the doggy food. I started feeding them frozen peas too, as I hear that is good for them and they really love frozen peas!

Day off today, and I must run, have to meet lovely sister downtown at coffee Roastery for coffee, will chat later....

 

[addy1]

Glad you survived west nile! I had a friend end up in ICU, nearly died, had to quit her job still having issues, tired etc but alive. Bad brain swelling, real bad.

Have a great weekend, sounds like it will be fun for you.

 

[slakker]

I'm a Canadian too! :cheerful: Just finished build our pond and figuring out how to run it!

 

[callingcolleen1]

How's your pond doing Slakker? Have you got any fish or plant's in the pond yet? Nice to hear from a fellow Canadian! :alieneyesa:

I bought a cherry tree last week and planted it, but did not realize I had a wild cherry tree in the back behind the old garage. The wild cherry tree out back, is so sweet and juicy, I did not even realize I had a small cherry bush there until my sister pointed it out the other day! We have so many other trees and lots of them are fruit trees such as Black wild Choke Cherries and those are great too! Some day soon I will rebuilt old fence, maybe this fall when biting ants are gone!

 

[slakker]

My pond is finally done! I post this update on it in the Photo Section.

https://www.gardenpondforum.com/top...rs-of-dreaming-and-2-seasons-of-construction/

It's been running a couple of weeks now and I have fish and plants in it... now to see if I get algae bloom or luck out, but so far so good...

 

[CometKeith]

Colleen, That cherry tree looks nice. I had all fruit trees in my backyard growing up including apple, crab apple,cherry and plum. It was kinda cool, but now I guess the trend is to plant trees that don't make as much mess. We have an ornamental pear tree in our yard now and it has really grown in the 10+ years we have had it.

 

[slakker]

We had a pear tree that was messy and produced a lot of wind falls.... Finally got rid of it after the 3rd time some black bears came and treated it like a buffet... The bears I could have tolerated... But the bear poop that filled a garbage can!? Not so much!

 

[callingcolleen1]

I only planted that one cherry last week, never planted a tree here in all the 24 years I have been here, Hubby planted a few trees, the rest of those fruit trees just grew wild. If I had my way I would hire a big truck and remove lots of them, and I still am thinking about it, there is just way too many trees, but dear hubby likes the trees and so I will trim the others gently so as not to disturb the dear hubby! Ha ha ha.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Had a real good time at the downtown Chilli Cookoff on Saturaday, first real public outting for hubby since his big mouth surgery from cancer from chewing tobacco. Hubby had a good day and ate well, considering everthing, including the fact he has new mouth and no teeth!! The truth of the matter is I think he looks good now and appears to be much healthier now than he was at this time last year! Matter of fact I think he looks younger now, maybe cause he quit chewing tobbacco and smoking too!!

Thank you God for bringing my hubby back to the Good life.....

we also did a tour of the little pop up garden that was made by local people downtown, where an old building used to be.

very last picture of the nice plump choke cherries that grow all over the down town area. I love to eat them right off the tree!!

 

[addy1]

How neat Colleen! glad you had a good day. I dated a smoker once, last time ever. If the guy smoked we did not get along. So glad your hubby is no longer chewing and doing so much better!

 

[CometKeith]

Colleen, That's great he is doing well. After my wife had her big scare, afterwards we felt like shaking people and telling them what dangers they might be up for. Some people just don't want to listen. Chili cookoff looked fun. Neat pics.

 

[gardengirl]

I bet it was yummy! looked like nice weather,

 

[j.w]

Colleen looks like a lot of fun! Glad you and hubby are both enjoying the good life now free of the bad nicotine addiction that wreaks havoc on our human bods. You and your hon bun will live long and prosper in health and happiness.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Sorry I have not posted for a while on my thread, but I have been busy, yard, work, life....

The ponds look amazing these days, the hornwort is just beautiful and the water looks crystal clear in my three main connecting ponds in the back yard. These ponds run non stop all winter and I think that is one of the reasons I have so little trouble.... except for the darn snakes eating the smaller goldfish a couple weeks ago, all is great!

Come and relax and sit by my pond with me in Canada....