"Ka30P" wrote in message
...
Wayne wrote Very good, Kathy. I got a big laugh out of your reply.
Have a
great day!

And I managed to avoid bill paying and doing battle with the insurance
dragons
for a time.
Back at it...




kathy :-)
A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A

You ought to try some of these tax dragons that I'm battling....only two
weeks until tax day and it seems like it was only yesterday when I was doing
this last year grrr.

BV, he/she keeps changing the addy but if you check the message properties,
one and the same. Just another loser! Rather than a PLONK, I'm just going
to ignore him from now on.

"BenignVanilla" wrote in message
...

"Ben Nunn" wrote in message
...
Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was SjT ), in message
who said:
Thanks everyone, you have been very helpful, i'm really looking
forward to doing this now i've seen pictures of other ponds that
people have made on their own.

I'm not a very patient person, but, hopefully i can manage not to rush
it like i did previously and have something worthy to sit beside in
the sun


You could always sit beside one us, Skyjam.

Think about it. You could suck us off while you were sitting there too.

Instant El Plonko.

Wayne wrote
Rather than a PLONK, I'm just going
to ignore him from now on.

Wayne, I searched my pond references and found a tried and true remedy for pond
trolls ~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Troll! We have a troll in the pond!
(apologies to Ms. Rowling ;-)
Quick, break out the emergency kit!

First isolate the troll to the filter,
get your fish net and your cattle prod.
Gently prod the troll in his nether
regions (for some reason pond trolls
are always male and the nether region
prod is always effective).
Apply the maximum electrical charge
to the prod.
The troll will then obligingly hop into
the net.
Ignore the howls that accompany the
electrical prod administration, (he deserves it).

Remove the troll, in the net, to an
isolation tank. Deposit in tank.
Remedies vary at this point. You
may choose the one that you feel
best fits your particular pond troll's
crimes:

1. Apply 100 pounds of pond salt and shrivel
the pond troll out of existence.
2. Apply triple the maximum dose of
potassium permanganate effectively nuking
the pond troll to the next dimension.
3. Apply several dozen leeches to the pond
troll thus depriving him of vital fluids. You will
have to dispose of empty pond troll skin but
it does well in the compost heap.

Good luck and good hunting!


kathy :-)
A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A

While chewing away on uk.sport.football, "BenignVanilla"
dribbled :


"Ben Nunn" wrote in message
...
Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was SjT ), in
message who said:
Thanks everyone, you have been very helpful, i'm really looking
forward to doing this now i've seen pictures of other ponds that
people have made on their own.

I'm not a very patient person, but, hopefully i can manage not to
rush it like i did previously and have something worthy to sit
beside in the sun


You could always sit beside one us, Skyjam.

Think about it. You could suck us off while you were sitting there
too.

Instant El Plonko.




Why? Seemed a perfectly reasonable comment.

--
Steve

Oztips League Cup Winners 2003/2004

"Ka30P" wrote in message
...
Wayne wrote
Rather than a PLONK, I'm just going
to ignore him from now on.

Wayne, I searched my pond references and found a tried and true remedy for
pond
trolls ~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Troll! We have a troll in the pond!
(apologies to Ms. Rowling ;-)
Quick, break out the emergency kit!

First isolate the troll to the filter,
get your fish net and your cattle prod.
Gently prod the troll in his nether
regions (for some reason pond trolls
are always male and the nether region
prod is always effective).
Apply the maximum electrical charge
to the prod.
The troll will then obligingly hop into
the net.
Ignore the howls that accompany the
electrical prod administration, (he deserves it).

Remove the troll, in the net, to an
isolation tank. Deposit in tank.
Remedies vary at this point. You
may choose the one that you feel
best fits your particular pond troll's
crimes:

1. Apply 100 pounds of pond salt and shrivel
the pond troll out of existence.
2. Apply triple the maximum dose of
potassium permanganate effectively nuking
the pond troll to the next dimension.
3. Apply several dozen leeches to the pond
troll thus depriving him of vital fluids. You will
have to dispose of empty pond troll skin but
it does well in the compost heap.

Good luck and good hunting!


Very good, Kathy. I got a big laugh out of your reply. Have a great day!

Wayne wrote Very good, Kathy. I got a big laugh out of your reply. Have a
great day!

And I managed to avoid bill paying and doing battle with the insurance dragons
for a time.
Back at it...




kathy :-)
A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A

"Ka30P" wrote in message
...
Wayne wrote Very good, Kathy. I got a big laugh out of your reply.
Have a
great day!

And I managed to avoid bill paying and doing battle with the insurance
dragons
for a time.
Back at it...




kathy :-)
A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A

You ought to try some of these tax dragons that I'm battling....only two
weeks until tax day and it seems like it was only yesterday when I was doing
this last year grrr.

ak! Tax dragons!
Outfitted mine DH in armor and sent him
forth to do those.
When it comes to tax dragons I prefer
to be the fair maiden and faint dead
away.



kathy :-)
A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A

"BenignVanilla" garbled some drivel on 01/04/2004:


"Ben Nunn" wrote in message
...
Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was SjT ), in
message who said:
Thanks everyone, you have been very helpful, i'm really looking
forward to doing this now i've seen pictures of other ponds that
people have made on their own.

I'm not a very patient person, but, hopefully i can manage not to
rush it like i did previously and have something worthy to sit
beside in the sun


You could always sit beside one us, Skyjam.

Think about it. You could suck us off while you were sitting there
too.

Instant El Plonko.

Yes please. I'll try a glass.

--
Moog

ak! Tax dragons!
Outfitted mine DH in armor and sent him
forth to do those.
When it comes to tax dragons I prefer
to be the fair maiden and faint dead
away.



kathy :-)
A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A

"BenignVanilla" garbled some drivel on 01/04/2004:


"Ben Nunn" wrote in message
...
Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was SjT ), in
message who said:
Thanks everyone, you have been very helpful, i'm really looking
forward to doing this now i've seen pictures of other ponds that
people have made on their own.

I'm not a very patient person, but, hopefully i can manage not to
rush it like i did previously and have something worthy to sit
beside in the sun


You could always sit beside one us, Skyjam.

Think about it. You could suck us off while you were sitting there
too.

Instant El Plonko.

Yes please. I'll try a glass.

--
Moog

Baron Von Strawberry sayed:

Buy some Barley straw from your local aquatic centre and chuck a bag
into your pond. The water won't go green and it kills off the blanket
weed. As the straw rots it gives off bacteria that eat the blanket weed
etc.

Is this true? or an Aprils fool?

There's fish and frog lives at stake here /

--
Joe's Nunn out, out

"SjT" wrote in message
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Baron Von Strawberry sayed:

Buy some Barley straw from your local aquatic centre and chuck a bag
into your pond. The water won't go green and it kills off the blanket
weed. As the straw rots it gives off bacteria that eat the blanket weed
etc.

I don't know about it "giving off bacteria", but barley straw is often used
to compete with algae and clarify pond water.

--
BV.
www.iheartmypond.com

SjT wrote in message ...
Baron Von Strawberry sayed:

Buy some Barley straw from your local aquatic centre and chuck a bag
into your pond. The water won't go green and it kills off the blanket
weed. As the straw rots it gives off bacteria that eat the blanket weed
etc.

Is this true? or an Aprils fool?


It is true about the algae bit but the quantities have to be quite precise -
there is a ratio for straw to water volume, google should provide the
answer.

As for the bacteria bit ? I think the poster is a little confused - decaying
organic material doesn't 'give off' bacteria - it is the action of bacteria
already in the water that break the organic matter down into ammonia, this
is further broken down by oxidisation to Nitrates and Nitrites. Certain
levels of these are essential for a healthy pond, ammonia and nitrates
provide food for aquatic plants - very high nitrates however will lead to
very poor water quality and ultimately kill the pond. This is why you should
prevent an over-accumulation of decaying leaves, fish shit and frog shit on
the bottom of your pond - the smell of that black sludge from the depths of
the pond is also equisitely disgusting.

SjT wrote in message ...
Baron Von Strawberry sayed:

Buy some Barley straw from your local aquatic centre and chuck a bag
into your pond. The water won't go green and it kills off the blanket
weed. As the straw rots it gives off bacteria that eat the blanket weed
etc.

Is this true? or an Aprils fool?


It is true about the algae bit but the quantities have to be quite precise -
there is a ratio for straw to water volume, google should provide the
answer.

As for the bacteria bit ? I think the poster is a little confused - decaying
organic material doesn't 'give off' bacteria - it is the action of bacteria
already in the water that break the organic matter down into ammonia, this
is further broken down by oxidisation to Nitrates and Nitrites. Certain
levels of these are essential for a healthy pond, ammonia and nitrates
provide food for aquatic plants - very high nitrates however will lead to
very poor water quality and ultimately kill the pond. This is why you should
prevent an over-accumulation of decaying leaves, fish shit and frog shit on
the bottom of your pond - the smell of that black sludge from the depths of
the pond is also equisitely disgusting.