"Bill Stock" wrote in message
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Well I bought my Duckweed and put it in a big wash tub, so I could add
some
to the Pond as needed. I was worried last night, as it rained pretty hard
and I filled the tub a little too full. I had visions of all the Duckweed
floating out of the tub.

So I checked it first thing this morning and the water level was lower
than
before the rain. I looked closely and noticed that more than half of my
Duckweed is gone! Damn Varmints! It looks like the Coons had a drinking
party last night. Might have been the Rabbits I suppose.

I guess the tub was not a bright idea in any event, as I have no way to
keep
the skeeters out.

OK, so Coons don't eat Duckweed. I looked again and saw some dried up
Duckweed on the ground around the tub. Silly Coons must have been using the
Wash Tub for washing. This explains why the water level dropped, they
overflowed the tub during their bath.

Hey Bill,
They might have also been fishing, they are pretty smart and probably have come
across a container pond full of tasty snails and fish.
They will eat anything they have a mind to but you are probably right they were
cavorting in your tub.


kathy :-)
algae primer
http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html

"Ka30P" wrote in message
...

Hey Bill,
They might have also been fishing, they are pretty smart and probably have
come
across a container pond full of tasty snails and fish.
They will eat anything they have a mind to but you are probably right they
were
cavorting in your tub.

Damn cavorting Coons!

I don't mind having them around, as long as they stay out of the Pond.
Fortunately they haven't realized the electric fence is burned out. It was
cute to watch the three baby Coons mousing last week. They would scurry
through the tall grass trying to flush out the mice.


kathy :-)
algae primer
http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html

Depending on the tub's size, maybe you could use screen door material held
down with a bungee cord around the tub? Keep the skeeters out and confuse
the cavorting coons? ~ jan

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:06:40 -0400, "Bill Stock" wrote:

Well I bought my Duckweed and put it in a big wash tub, so I could add some
to the Pond as needed. I was worried last night, as it rained pretty hard
and I filled the tub a little too full. I had visions of all the Duckweed
floating out of the tub.

So I checked it first thing this morning and the water level was lower than
before the rain. I looked closely and noticed that more than half of my
Duckweed is gone! Damn Varmints! It looks like the Coons had a drinking
party last night. Might have been the Rabbits I suppose.

I guess the tub was not a bright idea in any event, as I have no way to keep
the skeeters out.





(Do you know where your water quality is?)

"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
...
Depending on the tub's size, maybe you could use screen door material held
down with a bungee cord around the tub? Keep the skeeters out and confuse
the cavorting coons? ~ jan

That's a fine idea to keep the mosquitos out. I could make a wooden frame a
little larger than the tub and stretch some screen over it. Then just sit
the frame over the tub and weight it down. Likely not coon proof, but worth
a shot.

Thanks.

"Bill Stock" wrote in message
...
Well I bought my Duckweed and put it in a big wash tub, so I could add
some
to the Pond as needed. I was worried last night, as it rained pretty hard
and I filled the tub a little too full. I had visions of all the Duckweed
floating out of the tub.

So I checked it first thing this morning and the water level was lower
than
before the rain. I looked closely and noticed that more than half of my
Duckweed is gone! Damn Varmints! It looks like the Coons had a drinking
party last night. Might have been the Rabbits I suppose.

I guess the tub was not a bright idea in any event, as I have no way to
keep
the skeeters out.

OK, so Coons don't eat Duckweed. I looked again and saw some dried up
Duckweed on the ground around the tub. Silly Coons must have been using the
Wash Tub for washing. This explains why the water level dropped, they
overflowed the tub during their bath.

Hey Bill,
They might have also been fishing, they are pretty smart and probably have come
across a container pond full of tasty snails and fish.
They will eat anything they have a mind to but you are probably right they were
cavorting in your tub.


kathy :-)
algae primer
http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html

"Ka30P" wrote in message
...

Hey Bill,
They might have also been fishing, they are pretty smart and probably have
come
across a container pond full of tasty snails and fish.
They will eat anything they have a mind to but you are probably right they
were
cavorting in your tub.

Damn cavorting Coons!

I don't mind having them around, as long as they stay out of the Pond.
Fortunately they haven't realized the electric fence is burned out. It was
cute to watch the three baby Coons mousing last week. They would scurry
through the tall grass trying to flush out the mice.


kathy :-)
algae primer
http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html