Archive for 'Fish'
Posted: March 27th, 2004 by
Frank
Lisa spent the week in LA and took the red-eye home last night. While I was waiting for her, I scooped as much crud as I could out of the pond, and turned the pump back on. We lost all our fish for the second year in a row. We told the landscaper we wanted
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Posted under Algae, Daisy, Fish, Foxglove, Hollyhocks, Lamb's Ear, Lavender, Pond, Poppies, Tractor, daffodils, tulips.
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Posted: March 15th, 2004 by
Lisa
Frank went out today to see if he could see any fish, and unfortunately found them all dead. Damn it. This is two years in a row that they haven’t made it through the winter, and this year we tried a pond heater. I don’t know how it’s going to fit into what is going to be a busy year this year, but we need to re-do the pond, because it clearly needs to be at least a foot deeper to be able to winter over fish. We aren’t willing to bring them in, so I guess there will be no fish this year until we get this figured out.
Posted under Death, Fish, Pond.
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Posted: November 23rd, 2003 by
Lisa
Alright, the damn firewood is all in. Let winter come now, we’re ready! Of course, we don’t feel like we have enough, but you know, if we had more, we’d just be asking for a worse winter, because we always always run out of firewood. This year we have more than we’ve had since
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Posted under Addition, Farm Life, Firewood, Fish, Flowers, Weather, Wishlist.
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Posted: August 19th, 2003 by
Lisa
The pond is very pretty these days, and very full of algae. The water is clear, but we’re constantly pulling out netfuls of the stuff. I’m sure we’ve got too many animals in there: The nine remaining big fish are twice the size they were when we bought them, (much faster growth than our first
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Posted under Algae, Barley Ball, Fish, Pond, Reviews, water lily, water plants.
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Posted: August 16th, 2003 by
Lisa
Whew, it’s hot out there. I am not, however, complaining. We’ve had so much rain (almost 8 inches so far this month alone) that I haven’t been able to really do much in the garden, so I’ll take hot over hot and raining any day. We went out into the garden pretty early this morning,
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Posted under Building, Chips, Coffee Grounds, Compost, Deadheading, Fish, Grass Clippings, Harvesting, Lily beetles, Milkweed, Pallets, Peppers, Pruning, Reviews, Sawdust, Self, Shredded Paper, Tomatoes, Weeding.
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Posted: July 31st, 2003 by
Frank
Or so we think. It hides in the algae (which it’s eating madly) so it’s almost as hard to get a good look as a good picture. There are also half a dozen somewhat larger (two inch) charcoal grey fish in there, none of which we’d seen before today. At the rate the salmon colored
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Posted under Algae, Crazy Daisy, Day, Farm Life, Fish, Lily, Pond, Potatoes.
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Posted: June 27th, 2003 by
Lisa
The heat wave continues here. It got as high as the mid-90s again, which just saps my energy and keeps me from wanting to do much outside at all. The string algae in the pond suddenly appeared today, from all of the hot weather, I guess. Frank fished most of it out with the net.
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Posted under Algae, Centaurea montana Mountain Bluet, Columbine, Fish, Foxglove, Lupine, Madame Hardy, Pond, Sunny, tulips.
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Posted: June 26th, 2003 by
Lisa
Frank and I spent the week in Philadelphia this week, leaving the garden to fend for itself. While we were gone, summer arrived with a heat-wave, hitting the mid-90s, which is pretty rare for New Hampshire. Of course, because that’s the way things work in our world, Frank had been fiddling with the irrigation before
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Posted under Basil, Fish, Iris, Irrigation, Kids, Sedum, Tomatoes, peony.
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Posted: June 16th, 2003 by
Lisa
It’s so pretty today that we really can’t stay inside for long. We went outside for a bit of fiddling at lunch today, and again right after work as well. The sun is out, the air is warm, and it’s like Summer magically happened overnight. The butterflies are out in full force, too. All sorts
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Posted under Butterflies, Clematis, Columbine, Deadheading, Fish, Lasagna Layering, Lupine, Potatoes, Weeding, gazebo.
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Posted: June 14th, 2003 by
Lisa
One of the things I got done this Saturday was planting the stuff from swapping that had come in during the week while I was out of town. I got some Monarda Purple Bea Balm in on the side of the pergola by the chives. I didn’t actually need more bea balm, but since I
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Posted under Bee Balm, Cats, Columbine, Compost, Fish, Foxglove, Gardening, Hollyhocks, Lamium, Lupine, Marmalade, Plant Swap, Planting, Princess, Ragweed, Weeding, Weeds, Yoda, astilbe, pergola, water lily.
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