The Pond

Hi everyone,

Hope your all well where ever you maybe. I had an unexpected visit from my daughter "Cazz", who has come to spend a few days of R&R .. for those that are not acquainted with aussie lingo - rest and relaxation. Well I took a few snaps today of her first day of R&R ..

I started to clean up my little fish pond under the fernery, and was going to bucket out the water manually, as it had been over run by green aglae due to the extreme heat of the summer, but Cazz came to the rescue, pushed me aside and as she does, took over. So I took a few snaps of her hard at work.

First off she had to catch the goldfish, 6 in all, and it was no easy task, and a few giggles were had, the most memorable was when an 8 legged hairy beastie jumped out of the fern, landed on Cazz's arm, she remained calm, screamed and flicked it, which it then landed on my foot, I followed Cazz's lead, screamed and flicked it off my foot, and where do you suppose it landed, but in the bucket of fish, so Cazz then had to rescue the fish from the hairy little beastie, in the end we ended up with our 8 legged mate, stomped on and strampled under foot., but as the picture shows, all fish safe and relocated in a clean bucket of water.

After Cazz had manually bucketed out the green algae it was then a labourious task of scrubbing to removed the scum.

Cazz pressure washing the the pond to remove the excess build-up.

My friend, Ina came to visit, and like all good supervisors, we commanded the proceedings from afar, in a dry and warm place.

Cazz admiring the results of her hard work.

The fish finally back in their clean algae free habitate. Swim litttle fishies, swim, swim, swim.

MMMMMM... Cazz is wondering what is on the itinerary tomorrow !!!