New Plants in New Pond

As promised, I did some more work on our new fish pond and it really is shaping up. I am undecided as to how I am going to close around the outside. I have thought about putting in some evergreen,such as the low growing ground cover spreading juniper. The dwarf variety does not grow tall and runs along the ground. It will probably look good with some of our field rocks mixed in between. Also Might plant a few hosta in the area along with some other annuals. That is down the road a few days, with help from DW it will be much eaiser, she has a very good eye for detail and what makes something look good. In a few more days there will be some little fish moving into this pond, we have not decided what to put in yet. I even considered catching a few small bream out of the farm pond and try to see how they work out. I will have to study on this for a while to find out what they eat and how to take care of them. Thats it for this time.

Yellow Boy Right At Home

Just to let everyone know that Yellow Boy has settled in and does not want to go outside. If he is around and someone is going out the door, he runs to the back of the house and gets on his bed that DW prepared for him. He has just got to learn to stop wandering all over the house in the middle of the night. I guess that we will have to keep him awake during the day. More later.

Additional Photo of New Pond

I forgot to add this in with the other photos.

New Gold Fish and Koi Pond

This is our new pond, it is much larger than the others and I needed it so that I could seperate some of the larger fish. Baby Sister could not wait to drink out of the new pool, so I let her out doors to check it out. I think it holds around one hundred and seventy five gallons of water, could be more, I do not rembember what was on the tag when we bought it. It took most of the day to dig the hole to lower it into the ground halfway. This will help to keep the temperature of the water down in the summertime. I did all of the digging with a shovel and some help from my tiller. I had to move two fir bushes to make room for the pool. After getting it down to the desired level, I smoothed it out and went down to the creek on the tractor and got a big scoop of creek sand and placed a layer of sand on the bottom to prevent any sharp objects from damaging the pond. I will have to let the water set for twenty-four to forty eight hours to get to the right temperature, so the fish will not go into shock when I move them. In the meanwhile I will collect field rocks from around the farm to dress up the outside and plant some greenery around the rocks. Will post more pictures and the scence changes.

Flowers In The Yard

These are several of the flowers that we have been watering trying to keep them alive during this very hot weather. We need a lot of rain to catch up, it appears that we are headed into another long hot summer. I don't complain about any of this, I just thank the Lord for everything that he does for us each day and I feel that if he wants the flowers to grow they will survive. All of us should live today as if it is the last day of our lives, be happy for today, forget yesterday and tomorrow will take care of it's self.

Day Lilies

I have been a little slack in my posting of late, So much to do so little time, Ha. A little bit of laziness sometime comes into play. I took these at 7:30 p.m. after the sun started going down.
Everything is so dry I am afraid that we might loose a lot of our flowers, cannot afford to water them all, so I will depend on the Good Lord to help with this matter. There is some talk of have thunderstorms later this week. More later

Nose to Nose

Baby Sister and Orange Boy meet nose to nose in the lioropi bed. She has finally began to deal with this Orange Boy. He is real good natured and wants to play with all of our other cats.