Dragged youngest son out of bed on his day off
from work.

The flow from the waterfall has slowed way down.
In all our years of ponding we've never had that happen.
DH is off camping with the Boy Scouts so it is up to
youngest and me to see if we can figure this out.

Water is so clear I hate to have it all tromped thru
but gotta be done as we don't want really hot days to
come upon us without a nice flow from the waterfall.

k :-)

Took a long time to get the pond down enough for Son to
get in seeing how the pump was running at a trickle.

Pulled out the pump and discovered two things
- DH had not put the pump basket on its builder's brick so
it had sucked up mud from the bottom as we also decided not
to muck out the pond this year (he has no extra time this year).
- A poor little fish had gotten sucked in backwards with just his
face, looking alarmed, sticking out. He was long gone.

Son, who has dissected fetal pigs in biology, got a bit squeamish
when I handed him the needle nosed pliers to extract the fish
remains. But manly stepped up to the plate and removed the
fish in three pieces.

Pump is running great, waterfall sounds wonderful, frogs are glad
to have Son out of their pond so they can get back to frog courtship.
Won't take too long for the water to get back to clear and loverly.

k :-)

Nice repair. Congrats to your bold son.

Jim

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:13:41 EDT, kathy wrote:

Pump is running great, waterfall sounds wonderful, frogs are glad
to have Son out of their pond so they can get back to frog courtship.
Won't take too long for the water to get back to clear and loverly.
k :-)

Is it clear yet? ~ jan
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