I’d been writing about the tadpoles and our pond every couple weeks, so here’s the latest: The pond has been doing very very well. The water is nice and clear, we’ve had very little issue for the past couple weeks, although the “hair algae” is starting to grow again, which means a manual scrubbing of … Read more
Last week I talked about bringing 3 tadpoles into the house as a mini-science lesson for the boys. Those tadpoles spent the weekend in a glass mixing bowl while all of our visitors were here. They swam around, eating fish food and leaving plenty of algae-green-colored droppings. You could see visible changes in their eyes … Read more
This week I put away the “kitchen laptop” once and for all. We got our weather webcam working again with Dave’s old PC laptop that had been sitting in our front office unused since we moved here. With no kitchen laptop to occupy my time reformatting and partitioning, I’ve taken on a new hopeless project. … Read more
This is not the dead fish itself, but the calicos I killed looked VERY similar. Yeah. That would be me. I killed not one, but FOUR fish today. Back in December I mentioned the four 6″+ beautiful koi who were living in our water feature in the front yard of our current house when we … Read more