{"id":614,"date":"2011-07-14T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/07\/pandering-to-the-pond.html"},"modified":"2011-07-14T01:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T01:07:00","slug":"pandering-to-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/07\/pandering-to-the-pond.html","title":{"rendered":"Pandering to the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I put away the “kitchen laptop<\/a>” once and for all.  We got our weather webcam working again<\/a> with Dave’s old PC laptop that had been sitting in our front office unused since we moved here.<\/p>\n

With no kitchen laptop to occupy my time reformatting and partitioning, I’ve taken on a new hopeless project.  Wasn’t sure whether to call it my Waterloo<\/a> or my Achilles’ heel<\/a> or what, but it’s effectively taken the place of the kitchen laptop.<\/p>\n

I’ve talked about the small pond in front my rental house before.<\/a>  It’s pretty, and the cascading fountain is really really cool.  Most of the time my involvement with the pond isn’t the greatest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The hose in the background is connected to our well pump, thus making it easy (and free-of-charge) to refill the pond with non-chlorinated water.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It’s too small.  I’m going to guess the homeowner doesn’t read this blog so I’ll just be honest here and declare that it’s almost inhumane to have tried to keep 4 large koi in that small space.  I’d guess it’s about 55-60 gallons.  Not enough for large goldfish.<\/p>\n

I’ve been keeping notes of my “pond issues”.<\/p>\n