"Phyllis and Jim Hurley" wrote in message
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Mississippi is starting to have freezes. The pond is clearly going to
sleep.

## It's getting cold here as well. The ponds are down to 54F. The fish are
losing interest in food. I'll by shutting the pumps down in a week or two.
The filters will be cleaned and put away.

It appears the newsgroup is doing the same. We have adopted a simple
policy
about posts: If a post has more than one ng receiving it, we block the
sender. It becomes very easy to interact with our fellow ponders this
way.

## Excellent idea. In OE I added a handful of key words and the NG is
almost empty. :-)

Our son had a house in New Orleans...about 1/2 mile from the levy break on
tv...downhill from it. It sat for 3 weeks in 8 1/2 feet of water. It
will
be bulldozed soon. Not fun.

## I hope he had insureance.

Merry winter to y'all!

## Same to you.
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Carol McKoi.... frugal ponding since 1995...
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy
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