What is your weather like ... today

[sissy]

if it is snow addy it will melt as soon as it hits the ground .Been to warm and soil is still warm .

 

[addy1]

if it is snow addy it will melt as soon as it hits the ground .Been to warm and soil is still warm .

yep for sure, not even worried about it

 

[bettasngoldfish]

Snowing and minus 10 c, or 14 f. going down to 10 f. tonight. Pulled the big pump out of the bottom pond and got the smaller pump going, fish are back hiding under the floating yellow flags and other pond plants, their normal winter routine. Need to slow down flow in the top pond a bit more, so when it is really cold I will unplug one of the pumps directing water to top pond, and leave underwater filter and pump in the pond below the ice, as their is stuff living on filter that I don't want to kill. Bottom pond should get a nice ice cap tonight that will help keep the pond water temperture stable. Not using the heater yet, waiting for more ice to form. Presently only small amounts of ice forming on edges.

I have been very busy in the greenhouse, getting that winter ready, and moved some succlents inside just in case... Need to get the pond nets off the ponds now as all the leaves are off the trees, next week the temperture supposed to warm up then I will put them away and sweep the last of the leaves away into the garden for winter.

Bad dirty birdies got and brand new cage, took me a while to get all the pieces together, cause it came with lots of parts. Now that it is all together, it looks real good!!

Your plants are beautiful Colleen. Gotta love the tiels, they are such characters.

 

[MitchM]

Welcome to winter, Colleen, it's about time!...LOL
The ice on the pond here is thick enough to walk on now.

 

[addy1]

burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 56 today

 

[koiguy1969]

COLD..WET .. SNOWING

 

[j.w]

Gosh sissy your hubby is having an awful time lately. I hope he can get all this bad stuff going on taken care of soon. Hang in there and know we are all pulling for him to get well.

Our weather today was so nice I had to go out and clean the filter and it was mucked up good. Then I decided to put bigger holes in my floating plant ring for the Hornwort so nice flowing water could get in there better. It was all mucked and clogged up good too. Now some smaller fishies can sneak in there cuz of the bigger holes but hopefully they will curb their appetites and not eat all the wonderful Hornwort.
Tomorrow a day w/ the sister and her son. Have lunch and chit chat somewhere.

 

[addy1]

lol jw my hornwort is just tossed in with the fishies, they are leaving it alone. I have nice masses of it in the ponds, have a real nice mass of it growing in the inside tank, the tetras love it.

 

[j.w]

I can't just toss it into the pond cuz my filter in the pond will suck it up and it will be all flattened up against it so it has to live in the floating ring for now. See if I had a bog I wouldn't have to worry about that but do I have a bog? No dog gone it!

 

[addy1]

I can't just toss it into the pond cuz my filter in the pond will suck it up and it will be all flattened up against it so it has to live in the floating ring for now. See if I had a bog I wouldn't have to worry about that but do I have a bog? No dog gone it!

Well get off your butt and build one! Takes great care of my pond.

 

[callingcolleen1]

JW, next year when the sun is warm and shining, you could add a little bog just off your pond and put all the big plants in there. I often think about adding a little bog just to put some of the big plants in so it can free up space for more open water in pond. Sometimes we can "drown" out the open water with too many plants and then the pond can appear smaller with the fish poking there heads out looking for open water. I even have a little space to add a small bog, fill it with gravel and put just my rushes in there. The aquatic mint aways wants to crowd out my rushes in the top pond.

The weather is warming up very nice tonight, must be a little warm Chinook blowing in from down south, cause we are supposed to get to really warm tomorrow, like in the 50's warm!!! Then all the ice will melt and I can get the pond nets down for winter.

 

[addy1]

We are supposed to get snow today, right now it is 50 but they say arctic cold is coming, roads way too warm to stick, but they have snow plows on standby. Driving around dc is a nightmare if the roads get the tiniest bit of slick on them

 

[CountryEscape]

Does this even count as the first snow of the season? I think not, but oh well. Glad this is all I got. Was blowing hard and snowing lightly most of the night, but now the sun is out nicely. It will all be gone as soon as the sun hits it.

 

[addy1]

50 at 430am, now 36 and dropping

 

[sissy]

58 here this morning and wind is blowing but it does not feel like a cold wind yet .Brother said it is snowing in Flatrock Michigan and niece said it was snowing in NJ .Her kids woke her early and told her it was Christmas .