Holy pond, there's a cow out there!
May. 15th, 2010 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanda_loddenEr, wait. Strike that. Reverse it.
For a day that started out with having to get up at 6:30am and having three three-inch cat scratches on my knee courtesy of Inky, it's turned out pretty decent. I got my husband back from his trip to Ottawa. There was pond patching and swimming and then testing of the pond patches....
... which worked. Eight *censored* patches to get it right, but right it finally is. Well, at least the first bits. I fully expect to find more leaks as the water level rises, but right now it is high enough to put a couple of plants into the pond, start up the pump, and let the filter and waterfall go, so I can deal with higher-up leaks as I find them. The filter also leaks, which sucks because eventually I'll have to do something about that, but the bubble-gum-and-bailing wire MacGuyverish contraption that I've got in place to deal with it right now led to an idea for a second waterfall that I think will both work and look really nice, and will handle future leak issues nicely. Now I just need a couple of fish to toss into it, and I'm good to go for a bit until the chemicals stabilize and I can add more fish a few at a time.
In the quest to find all the things that I've acquired for the pond, I also ran across the plant hanger I've been looking for for a month, so I got the rosemary plant repotted and hung. Hopefully I'm right about what's "in cat range" and what's "out of cat range."
In a fit of "omigosh, it's finally ready for plants" I went up to Bordine's for pond plants, as I remembered them having a decent water-plant section. None of the water lettuce that I want a bit of, but I picked up several others. I was surprised to find water lilies as a perennial here, as I thought they weren't winter-hardy, but I found a pretty pink one that I like. Possibly even enough to take it out of the pond and store it somewhere indoors in the winter. I also got three others, including a "swamp hibiscus" that will hopefully live long enough to be as pretty as the regular hibiscus we have. Bordine's was having a sale on regular perennials, so I picked up some salvia and a pretty yellow columbine to replace the butterfly bushes I bought last fall that died.
Also, I just watched Inky jump up on the top of the cat tree, bat furiously at the ball suspended from it, and then... fall off. Hysterical.
For a day that started out with having to get up at 6:30am and having three three-inch cat scratches on my knee courtesy of Inky, it's turned out pretty decent. I got my husband back from his trip to Ottawa. There was pond patching and swimming and then testing of the pond patches....
... which worked. Eight *censored* patches to get it right, but right it finally is. Well, at least the first bits. I fully expect to find more leaks as the water level rises, but right now it is high enough to put a couple of plants into the pond, start up the pump, and let the filter and waterfall go, so I can deal with higher-up leaks as I find them. The filter also leaks, which sucks because eventually I'll have to do something about that, but the bubble-gum-and-bailing wire MacGuyverish contraption that I've got in place to deal with it right now led to an idea for a second waterfall that I think will both work and look really nice, and will handle future leak issues nicely. Now I just need a couple of fish to toss into it, and I'm good to go for a bit until the chemicals stabilize and I can add more fish a few at a time.
In the quest to find all the things that I've acquired for the pond, I also ran across the plant hanger I've been looking for for a month, so I got the rosemary plant repotted and hung. Hopefully I'm right about what's "in cat range" and what's "out of cat range."
In a fit of "omigosh, it's finally ready for plants" I went up to Bordine's for pond plants, as I remembered them having a decent water-plant section. None of the water lettuce that I want a bit of, but I picked up several others. I was surprised to find water lilies as a perennial here, as I thought they weren't winter-hardy, but I found a pretty pink one that I like. Possibly even enough to take it out of the pond and store it somewhere indoors in the winter. I also got three others, including a "swamp hibiscus" that will hopefully live long enough to be as pretty as the regular hibiscus we have. Bordine's was having a sale on regular perennials, so I picked up some salvia and a pretty yellow columbine to replace the butterfly bushes I bought last fall that died.
Also, I just watched Inky jump up on the top of the cat tree, bat furiously at the ball suspended from it, and then... fall off. Hysterical.
