As you can see we seem to have a tad bit more water in our pond. As yesterday when we went out to work it was about 1/8 of the way full seeing it at about 1/2 was a big surprise. A good surprise but still a surprise.Yesterday the pond was not was smooth as it is now in this picture, and as you can see it is only half the pond. That... unfortunately is due tot he fact that after I fed the chickens I ran back into the house for the camera and got a beautiful picture of the full pond. Then I slid on the ice and it fell into the water.
I fished it back out, but as I don'rt know if I'll get the image off of the camera I went and got our old smart phone and used it's camera as I know it has a nice camera on it. I guess if this keeps up I need to get use to using the phone camera, we should know in a few hours to a couple days if the camera survives the trip into the pond.
As for the pond itself we are suppose to get more rain today then it changes to snow tonight for the next to days. So it is very possible we will have a full pond by week's end. Now we just have to hope it stays full. If it doesn't we will try Silver's method of "sealing" the pond bottom with clay cat litter. He says if you get straight clay cat litter and make a slurry of it and coat the bottom of the pond it will seal the "leaks" in it. Hey, if it works that's good.
Here is the other picture of the pond.
The only spot it hasn't done much yet is on the shallow end, which is where my cat tails are going to be growing when the pond is full and it gets warmer. Though I imagine the blackberry canes that grow on that side of the pond will now wind up HUGE with all the extra water they will have there.Pity Paris died over the summer she'd have a blast this summer with a pond in our yard, the two pups do not even seem interested in investigating the pond as it is now. Neither does Midnight their daddy. Can't wait to see the cats when it's full of water and try to walk across that log over the middle.
As for the rest of the water that is in our yard...
All of our trenches have water in them, also the new septic for the house has a layer of water in it as well. Funny thing is as I was leaving to feed the chickens and was walking next to the electric trench and noticed the water I thought to myself. I'd live to see that much water in the pond. Guess that falls under the "ask and ye shall receive" heading huh?
We still need to get the piles of mud down a bit, which I am figuring they will work good to "deter" some of the plant growth I don't want in some areas. We also have to restore the trench that went from the section of woods that line the road to our pond as it was the natural draining area. I'm going to have to hand dig it. At least it will ensure steady influx of fresh water though.
I also did notice that when I watched the water in the pond yesterday that it was still bubbling from the ground up, so it's possible it may stay liquid at the deepest parts in the winter which would be great for raising fish.
Well that's it before breakfast, which is going to be beef hash (leftover from last night's roast) with eggs on top and maybe some of my fresh sourdough. While my oven is on the fritz I can only make my "no knead" sourdough bread as it cooks at 500 degrees.
..and don't forget today's moral... don't stand on ice above a pond to take pictures with your camera!
Have a good day all!
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