My entry just disappeared. I went for a swim, but not until I'd filmed a frog. It was on shore. I zoomed in my camera on it and then went swimming. The camera was plugged in. I love having extension cords to bring the power down here ( Read more... )

Here I am down at the pond at sunset at 8pm. Willem's gone to pick up Abe. It's very quiet down here. I drove my car down. I like doing that. I like the option of riding up if my body is in pain ( Read more... )

July 14, saturday ( Read more... )

It's a new day! I tried uploading a second half of a video, but youtube couldn't convert it. What's up with that? It converted the first half of the same file ( Read more... )

We have been working on making a blind at the corner of the pond so Willem can walk into the pond in private ( Read more... )

Tyler and I went down to the pond with his big plastic frog. We threw rocks down to the lower landing from the moonscape. It had rained, so I walked along and stomped on all the dirt clods to break them up ( Read more... )

june 21, 2012 ( Read more... )

8:45 ( Read more... )

I went down to the pond to deliver the floaty noodles so we can make a barrier between teh shallow and the deep. I walked up on the pit run berm and was amazed to see how many stones were up there. It's dotted with them! They're everywhere! We will have enough to make a stone wall across the pond to separate the shallow from the deep! Perfect ( Read more... )

Abe has some friends over, Fred and Graham. They went down to the new pond. I heard a sound. Either the tree with the new hammock in it broke, or someone jumped into the water. I think it was Abe doing a cannon ball. I'm so glad he likes it! All these years we've lived here and the kids never wanted to play in the stream or the other ponds ( Read more... )