On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 18:45:42 GMT, "Anne Lurie"
wrote:

Shiva,

About the ponds -- many people with ponds have pump/waterfalls and fish of
some sort, so the mosquitoes don't really have much chance to get started
because there's no standing water.

Thank you, Anne! I am clueless about these things. I do know that the
whole oak leaves I put down, while not creating an impenetrable mat,
do form lots of little cups for tiny pools of standing water. I may
have to weedwhack them or apply some nice pine bark. The mosquitos are
terrible, and with my luck I'd wind up with West Nile.