Weeds, rain, Koi, and worms

 

     Whew.  It’s a good thing we had another sunny day.  When I said that all that rain made the plants happy, I should’ve said the weeds were the happiest.  I spent all afternoon and most of the evening (while there was still enough light) pulling weeds.  I’ve only managed to clear the garden against the back fence and the backside of the pond garden. 

     Unfortunately, the weather report predicts rain for tomorrow and Tuesday so all my work might’ve been for nothing.  Two more rainy days and those weeds will be shooting up like sky rockets.  I hate to think about the growth spurts the weeds I didn’t pull will go through. 

     While I pulled weeds, I found a bunch of worms and as I found them, I tossed them into the pond.  My Koi were going crazy—they sure do love worms.  If I take the time, they’ll take them right out of my hands.  Tiki and Yang are real pigs about worms and will fight for the chance to get first grab.

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  1. Oh I bet they were in heaven! I can’t wait to get into our new house where I can put a pond in & know it will be safe from jerks! (Our last batch of fish were killed because some jerk thought it would be cool to put some kind of detergent in the pond) >(

    • I can’t believe how destructive and spiteful people can be sometimes. A couple of years ago, before we put in the new fencing began to keep our gate locked at all times, someone thought it’d be funny to drop a car battery in our pond in the winter. It killed all the fish, frogs, plants…everything. The devastation hit the TV news and the newspaper. Took me most of the next spring and summer to get it up and running again. Some of our baby Koi had gone to neighbors for their ponds so they gladly returned a few to help get us restarted. As you can see from my pond pictures the new/returned fish are doing fine now.

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