9/5/10 Sunday

Mo-now the eldest of our furbabes at age 11- has discovered there are fish in the pond. He is intent on trying to catch one of them. He loves to go out at night with Mr S and his flashlight and see if he can find the irksome little things. He has trouble finding them while looking among all the lillies and the pond lettuce

6.27.09 Saturday

our fish are settling in the pond. When we come out to feed them they now come up to the top and are eager to get some grub... and they have grown a lot in the few short weeks we have had them. The tadpoles seem to be all grown up and gone. no more in the pond that we can find... Today's word is HOT!! and muggy

6.22.09 monday

Today's POTD is Juan and Juanita... they will someday go to live in the waterfall... what a unlikely couple they are. but they make it work. LOL
Juan is the box turtle and hails from the Tennessee Aquarium as a gift from Katie, many years ago. She brought him for us when she went on a school trip.
Juanita came from Cracker Barrel this summer.... she is going to live on a lip of the waterfall.

6.12.09 Friday

today Mr S and his Dad started working with a new project. They started digging at the rental property and then will finish up at our house. While they were our digging at the other house I sat up shop in the pond area and watched the fish in the pond

6.2.09 Tuesday

YEAH!!!! they live after all- Today's POTD is the fish that are now living in our pond.

went out to feed them tonight and soon after the food hit the water there they were---finally!!! some strange animal that was lurking in the pond didn't get them after all!!! actually these are not really good photos I was just glad to see something alive in there!

6.1.09 Monday

I think there is something in the pond eating my fish. We put those 20 in there on Friday and they have not been seen since..... I think there is some mysterious something down there eating them. Mr S declares that they have to still be there ---because there is no place they can go.... meanwhile there are now 8 Lilly leaves growing up

I started back to the Y with a vengeance today--- vow to go 4 days this week.... still have not lost ANY weight again

Today's POTD is of the clouds coming over the trees.... It didn't rain today and the clouds were beautiful.

5.29.09 Friday

OK--since it seems all of the other fish have departed existence so today I ventured to Petsmart after work and purchased 20 little comet goldfish and three little plants. (the comets were a whopping 12 cents each) We shall see if they live. They are cute little things---only about 1 inch long each gold, white and brown coloration

5.28.09 Thursday

today's POTD is our little Dachshund, Mo. He is such a great little dog and a typical dachshund. i love this quote H. L. Mencken said that "A dachshund is a half-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long,"

anyway--I don't know if you have ever sen the Petsmart commercial with the Dachshund and his long Loofa dog toy named BoBo. Well, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3FEM-pPfBQ) our little Mo loves BoBo too. When i was in the Petsmart yesterday they had BoBo's on clearance. ...and he got a coupon for $4 off since this is his birth month---BoBo's are usually $6.99 each and they had them 1/2 price.......so Mo got 3 new BoBo's for his Birthday(10th) . Today he has played all afternoon with BoBo-- he really only wants to play with it when I am home and he just tears the stuffing out and wants to destroy the squeaker LOL

thus the POTD:---and please, please notice the cat toys and litter box in the second picture of the hallway---we have a lot of pets!

Edited to add---bad news. when I got home tonight Mr S greeted me with the bad news that at least one of the new fish did not survive---was doing the side stroke and half his tail was gone---wish I knew what got him...We cant tell for sure how many of the seven are left--but know one is gone for sure

5.24.09 Sunday

Katie and Brad (Hi guys) stayed the night with us on the way back to Memphis.
this is the POTD today--- the Neighbor's cat stretched out on the wall by the pond hmmmmm doesn't seem to bode well for any fish we may get---and right next to the new bird feeder

4/28/09 Tuesday

Mr S has worked like a Trojan on the waterfall this spring. he has it going some times LOL... He has added lots of extra rock to the bottom near the liner.........soon we will be ready for fish(ies) to join Fish in the outdoor sanctuary {{{ let me explain that Fish (with a capital-as in a proper name) that lives in a tank in the living room will soon move outdoor with some new little friends that wait at the store for us}}}

We have already acquired some wild frogs that are enjoying the water and wetlands area---love the sound of "peepers" in the spring

We have the Lily in and growing leaves for shade and the hopefully a white flower. We have also planted 3 cat tails growing to help with the purification... not sure what else we can put in there--it is a learning process this year