Pond Post
It's not very big but I love sitting by it. Today I am getting my ass wet because after Snowpocalpyse there was the Flood from Hell on Sunday so we are a very, very wet state.
But it is beautiful today. In the 60s. The birds are chirping. Not a single snow drift in sight. A perfect day to clean out the pond.
Well, two very large, very dead frogs later a well as tons of dead vegetation and me covered in eau de fish I can now see how my fish have fared through the winter.
Sam and Dean have long gone, victims of a hungry 'coon i think. But I have quite a few lovely goldfish, a big white koi type fish and some speckled fish as well. There are brown fish too, one with an orange body and brown top and two just brown but one has unexpected shimmers of gold running through it. Secretive almost - and since no one 'plays' with the fish but me, I suppose no one will ever know about how it shimmers strangely gold in the sunlight. My big shibunkin, well, I don't see her/him. The old matriarch/patriarch may not have made it through the winter but that is a sneaky fish, and it may very well be hiding.
I see two baby fish, one brown and one speckled. It makes me wonder about the reproductive habits of my fish. I mean the pond was frozen until most of March and these two babies look about a month old. So...how were my frozen fish having fish sex? I don't know. The pond had two feet of snow on it. You couldn't even see where it began and where it ended. (hence the dog fiasco)
When the pond is pretty this summer I will post pretty pond pictures. Till then I leave you with the thought of fish sex....