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A different perspective
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:03:38 EDT, "JDS" wrote:
cool - a man-cave with pond.... nice. I guess. Anyway, I went down there and sat much of yesterday late afternoon and this morning. There isn't any power yet, so I tend to hide in an air conditioned spot during the heat of the day. I'd seen an otter in the pond a few weeks ago, and figured it was just a visitor or something, but there it was again this morning. It swam along the bank and poked its head up from time to time to check out me and the building. There is no way it could have missed me. I wasn't singing or dancing or anything, but I wasn't trying to be quiet or hide or anything either. The otter was only about 10 yards from me and looked right at me, probably snickered, and then went back underwater. It would poke its head up now and again in other parts of the pond. I haven't the foggiest what it finds to eat. Stocking the pond with fish sounds a bit too much like "feeding the otter" for me to get real excited about that right now. The ducks are kind of miffed at me for getting rid of the fallen tree trunk they used to hang out on, but the time lapse camera shows them still swimming around the other side of the pond. This is what I stared at this morning. http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x.../jul223009.jpg (I screwed up the date on purpose. Yeah, that's the ticket.) I think the picture shows off the carpet of duckweed rather well. If my theory is correct, the duckweed should clear up from the agitation of the aerator I'll toss in when I get power. I wonder what the otter and the ducks will think of it? I remember the frogs spent almost two whole days before they got used to it in the middle pond (now a mere mud puddle). |
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