Whatcha doing today?

[addy1]

Not today, but yesterday. We got to 60F 65F real feel.

So decided to fix my loop ponds. Edges, over time, have become fragile. Fought a lot of tiny leaks all last summer, when all I could do is add water, attempt to fix with one arm...............didn't work.

The first loop pond has one side built up to make a level spot. A weak easy to leak area. The deer , ground hogs, etc always were knocking rocks, stepping on it , causing small leaks. So I put in metal stakes, some wood planks, locust wood, pulled up extra liner, made the edge higher, then started stacking rocks. Pulled some rocks out of the water, darn cold, then decided the rest could wait for spring.

Next loop pond ,the last one, over time again walked on, edges squished down, etc. Dug , pulled every rock, pulled up the extra liner, dug a bigger shelf, started re-stacking rocks. All the time thinking what happened to all the rocks I had. Well took a stick start feeling in the water. Felt rocks. Went and put on some long water proof gloves, but not warm gloves. Started pulling out rocks around 20ish and more in the water to deep to get without water getting into the gloves. So a later job.

Now, 5 hours later, have a nice stack of rocks, a undone edge, higher liner, and rocks to work with. Again a later job, the cold is returning. dropping to 12 at night 25 day in a day or so.

The cardinals love the water to sip.

 

[addy1]

Two days ago, one cut up ready for a dumpster old leaking ex hot tub pond.

 

[addy1]

63 yesterday, decided to make my little stream ponds water again. Over the years dirt has accumulated, a ton, ie a whole lot of blue purple iris self seeded in the small stream pond. I dug out a massive amount of just now growing iris, all about 3-4 inches tall. Trying to decide if I want to land plant, bog plant, or give away. They sure are pretty. But the pond is back to water. Well water once we have the stream running again.

Took a shovel, sharp knife, very careful cutting to not slice the liner , to get them out. Of course did not take a before, but did take a after shot. About 2-3 hours of work.

This is the pond in full bloom last year, dirt and plants with water running over them in the stream.

they also do well on land

Then pulled a thalia out of another stream pond, it had taken over, straps, shovels, 2x4 to slide it on, out it came.
Now that little stream collection pond is back to being water. It does not look like it but about 2 feet deep, about 18 inches wide.
Need to do my spring cypress dead stuff clean out, before turn on.

 

[Tula]

Yesterday I scooped out tons al string algae and another kind of " blob" algae from the pond - ugh ! I'm not sure why there is so much algae without the koi, but there is. I turned off the pumps when we had that frigid spell, so will get the water circulating again.

@addy1 your purple iris are beautiful !

 

[addy1]

Here are the pans of plants. A whole bunch of small ones. Still thinking of what I might do with them. A mess just masses of dirt and roots dug out and dumped. Need to rinse and sort out the plants vs some grass that was growing in there also.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Been doing lots of Microsoft Flight Simulator lately.

 

[Lisak1]

This winter is just DRAGGING on and on. I'm itching to get out there and get my hands dirty and my feet wet, but I have a feeling it's going to be a few more weeks of this where its either cold and snowy or cold and sunny or raining. Or all three in the space of a few hours!

 

[addy1]

This winter is just DRAGGING on and on. I'm itching to get out there and get my hands dirty and my feet wet, but I have a feeling it's going to be a few more weeks of this where its either cold and snowy or cold and sunny or raining. Or all three in the space of a few hours!

I have been tooooo wet and toooo dirty recently. The mild winter we had made it great for me. Got a lot of stuff done on the ponds on a slow basis. Then now turning things on, getting other stuff done faster . Still need to do the stream walk with a bucket, pulling out leaves, needles, moved rocks (deer) etc, before turn on.

And still need to do the totally messy job of pulling the lilies, grooming , fertilize and new litter, etc

The water hawthorn has been blooming a lot, it must like the new pond set up.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

This winter is just DRAGGING on and on. I'm itching to get out there and get my hands dirty and my feet wet, but I have a feeling it's going to be a few more weeks of this where its either cold and snowy or cold and sunny or raining. Or all three in the space of a few hours!

Usually we get some nice spring days in March, even a few 60's and 70's, but I think at best we had two days in the low 50's all month.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Two more racecar diecasts added to my collection.

I found this one in a drawer of my late grandpa's workbench last week. It's a larger scale than my other cars, but still cool.

Dale Jr.'s Late Model Stock Car that he raced at North Wilkesboro Speedway last year. It was a pretty noteworthy night for the racing community so I had to have the diecast. I ordered it 7 months ago and it finally arrived today.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Barnstorming on Flight Sim

 

[JBtheExplorer]

They said migration was going to be high lately and they weren't wrong. orioles and grosbeaks have appeared today!

 

[addy1]

Pond and bog mucking around, totally covered with dirt and soaked.

 

[j.w]

Pond and bog mucking around, totally covered with dirt and soaked.

Darn I should'a tuned in to your cams

 

[addy1]

My white yard pants (ex beepants) were brown to above the knees, and wet.