Ponds

[Smithy]

Do you have a pond in your garden?

I have a 4-5 feet long pond and 3 feet wide and 3 feet deep with water.
My pond is mainly for the wildlife. - Frogs, Newts and other little creatures.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I have a 1/4 acre pond we had stocked with pan fish. Believe it or not, water birds bring fry and eggs into the pond so we didn't have to do it.

 

[Joe Riley]

I remember seeing large goldfish in a beautiful pond, where the goldfish were swimming or hibernating under the ice! It was a beautiful sight to behold. It was in a sheltered area of the yard, near to where we were working. They looked like fire in the ice!

 

[Mary Stetler]

I remember seeing large goldfish in a beautiful pond, where the goldfish were swimming or hibernating under the ice! It was a beautiful sight to behold. It was in a sheltered area of the yard, near to where we were working. They looked like fire in the ice!

Yes, as the water depths got less, the pan fish did not do so well. But the goldfish I allowed someone to 'winter over' do very well. We have used goldfish in horse troughs to keep the mosquito larva under control. Hope the pond goldfish do the same and they don't eat too many tadpoles.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I have a 1/4 acre pond we had stocked with pan fish. Believe it or not, water birds bring fry and eggs into the pond so we didn't have to do it.

Mary, what fry and eggs? We had a pond with Koi and Goldfish, we gave them to a neighbor when we built the house. Some were 8 or 10 year old.
When a child mama stocked our lake with bass and brim, guess the birds brought in the cat fish.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I remember seeing large goldfish in a beautiful pond, where the goldfish were swimming or hibernating under the ice! It was a beautiful sight to behold. It was in a sheltered area of the yard, near to where we were working. They looked like fire in the ice!

Joe our fish would come up when we called them, but any other voice they stayed in the deep.
I was looking for pictures but didn't find them ,it was heart shaped and the grandkid's dug it 30 years ago.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Mary, what fry and eggs? We had a pond with Koi and Goldfish, we gave them to a neighbor when we built the house. Some were 8 or 10 year old.
When a child mama stocked our lake with bass and brim, guess the birds brought in the cat fish.

Fry, being baby fish and eggs of fish brought in on feathers and legs of birds. I have been begging for bullheads (a catfish)

 

[Joe Riley]

The Old Pond​

Following are several translations
of the 'Old Pond' poem, which may be
the most famous of all haiku:

Furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto

- Basho
Translations

 

[Joe Riley]

MAFIA HIT MAN POET: NOTE FOUND PINNED TO LAPEL
OF DROWNED VICTIM'S DOUBLE-BREASTED SUIT! ! !

'Dere wasa dis frogg
Gone jumpa offa da logg
Now he inna bogg.'

- Anonymous

 

[Joe Riley]

The Pond
by
Richard Greene


There was a pond in my young years,
a place of reeds
reflected trees
and silky brown water
spilling over a weed-bearded dam,
a place where we swam from early spring
and skated in the early darkness of winter evenings,
a place of mysterious depths
where creatures vanished
into a green void
while tadpoles and minnows
swarmed on its verges
like exclamation points.

(CONTINUE READING)

​

 

[Joe Riley]

Across The Pond - Jimmy Robinson, Gavino Loche, & Adrian Raso​

 

[Marie Mallory]

A picture of 5 of our grandkids digging the pond. We took them roller skating once it was done.
The tallest one was 12, she is almost 40 now.

 

[Marie Mallory]

The pond when finished, it was heart shaped.

 

[Marie Mallory]

The pond when finished, it was heart shaped.
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Pond has been gone for a while now, we used it for chicken free range area.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Pond has been gone for a while now, we used it for chicken free range area.

They do tend to disappear.

 

[Marie Mallory]

They do tend to disappear.

Yes they do when the area is needed for something else.