well, party-boat. They have cruises out on Lake Coeur d’Alene, a little while out of reach of cell phones and with a nice lot of water and scenery round about. Good food and a nice sit on the upper deck for, yes, a three hour cruise. Jane and me and OSG. OSGuy was otherwise engaged or out of town.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile we’re starting to do some things looking toward winter with the pond. We can report major success with our 10 water hyacinth plants (no, they won’t winter-over: they’ll freeze, and we’ll have to get new ones, but after the algae incident, we were willing, especially at the dollar a plant sale price. We put them in a floating ring like a hula hoop, and the water is so clear you can count Kenpachi’s whiskers.)<\/p>\n
But the lilies—Jane got me 2 things for my birthday, 2 egg cups shaped like spacemen with removable helmet—a hoot! and a water lily. We also got some advice from the local pond expert on how to get them to winter-over in the pond and start properly next year.<\/p>\n
Jane was the brave soul who got into the pond, risking the slippery bottom, while I ran around the outside providing rocks, buckets of rocks, and scissors to cut the Lowe’s-bought lilies out of their netting. We used large, medium and peagravel rock, and buried them in little rock pyramids. But the waterfall was running, so buckets full of rock went floating off. I snare them with the pool-net which we have on hand to fish leaves out of the pond, and herd them back to her; and then she needs the scissors…hmmm. Into the pool net they go, and she uses them, places them in the pool net and I return them to shore. We should have had pictures, but since both of us were busy, we didn’t have a spare hand for a camera.<\/p>\n
But since I have never had any luck wintering-over bulbs or rhizomes that are out of the ground, we have high hopes this will be less fraught with accidents: a couple of our lilies grew to respectable size over the summer, and this new one I really don’t want to lose.<\/p>\n
Besides that, the fish are now on an approaching-cold weather diet, of mostly wheat germ. The largest have put on 2″ this summer, and we want to be sure they go into the winter fat. The morning water temperature is pretty well 62 degrees, and once the water hits 58F we have to stop feeding them, shut down the pump (to avoid mixing their water with colder water), and install the heaters, one at the bottom, one floating. Then we just kind of wave at them daily until it freezes. Even if the water gets warmer, they say don’t feed them: you don’t want them to have food in their bellies during hibernation. So we’ll be undergoing fish-withdrawal once the weather cools.<\/p>\n
We’re also getting rid of the weeds we once called cute. They are now rank, and needing to be pulled, along with random stalks of millet from the birdfeeder.<\/p>\n
I’ve got the ending of the book in focus now. I know it sounds like I’m lazing along, but head-work is part of it, and I’ve had to get my focus back after all that’s gone on last month or so. So now I’ve got it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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