Pump Up and Running

Friday night Jim and I cut down the old cattails and tall grass in the pond. I put on my waders and long pond gloves and pulled out a lot of leaves. Saturday March 28th, when I got home from work we turned on the yard water, filled and flushed out the pond. The water was quit low and the water had to run for hours to get it filled and overflowed a little. 

The first picture is that of vault where the pump is kept. You can see leaves and debris have collected. I won't actually put the filters in place until later in the spring. Right now I just want water flowing to aerate it.

The snow is very pretty, but I'm anxious for spring. However, snow this time of year never lasts very long. 

Yard Work in Early Spring

It was such a beautiful sunny day today. Jim and I got out and did a little raking. I like to get the leaves off the garden early. If I wait too long it keeps the spring bulbs from blooming.

I also took a few under water pictures in the pond. They came out cloudy. I wonder if I'm going to lose any more fish. I hope not. There is always a lot of work in early spring. It should be nice this week, maybe I can do a little every day.

March Thaw 2009

We had some rain today. I had to work, but this may be the last Saturday that I'll have to work. Things are really slowing down. However it feels like spring may be on the way. Daylight savings time starts tomorrow. As wonderful as it is that may be this hard, hard winter is over. You can see on the pond picture that my big gold koi died this winter. I didn't fish him out yet. The water is so cold I don't think he'll decay and pollute the water yet. I feel kind of bad as he was a beautiful fish. And maybe he's just sleeping. Wishful thinking, I don't think fish sleep on their sides. This is really an unattractive time of year in Michigan, however just seeing all the snow melt makes it look wonderful.