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Yes, yes we do. (Except of course when the corporate 8-track player broke, an event that Sunil will never let us forget).
JHAP ~~~~~~~~~~ "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." ...Hedley Lamarr (that's Hedley not Hedy)
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I subscribe Some days you get the dog,and some days he gets you.Every dog has his day,and sometimes he has two!
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Rad you have an outstanding place and have succeeded in a location and under conditions that none of us face - and with no one to provide local guidance. I would say that is an over-the-top accomplishment.
Your post was as good as your ponds.
Heybud - time to start planning another project/pond ?
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My pond can beat up your pond. Yea well DIED's pond can take your pond with one diffuser tied behind it's back.
JHAP ~~~~~~~~~~ "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." ...Hedley Lamarr (that's Hedley not Hedy)
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Rad, your pond makes me want to drag mine out in the road and chunk rocks at it.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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ewest, you give me way to much credit, ignorance and mother nature are the real stars.
DD, you haven't seen the new one then, it looks as if some one already did that. This is the wettest hot season I have seen, the island/shoal went under water last night, around 2 meters(80") of water. We have stopped all projects, just can't walk around in the wet clay. The pile driver has not been back in almost two weeks and the builder took a look yesterday and just chuckled.
And, the wet season starts in a couple of weeks. Never a dull moment, always a new adventure.
The remains of a cyclone are passing today.
1/4 & 3/4 acre ponds. A thousand miles from no where and there is no place I want to be... Dwight Yoakam
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Rad, last year we had a lot of rain, record rains, during our hot season. And then it ended. At this time, one water hole is 3 ft low and the other is 4 ft down. And summer is coming.
Like you, I put off a lot of projects last year. Now, I may put them off for a different but familiar reason.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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DD,
I sit there in the afternoon, when things are cooling down, with a cold beer, surveying my accomplishments and thinking about what I will do tomorrow. I do this mostly to avoid thinking about what I didn't do today.
It always seems to amaze me, the number of things of which I have no or little control.
Not just the weather but things like time and money, the only thing that seems to go faster than time is money. And of course, people, they seem to have a miind of their own.
Just keep on truckin, I guess.
Full sun, almost cloudless day, today, 10 more of these (in a row) and we are back on track!
1/4 & 3/4 acre ponds. A thousand miles from no where and there is no place I want to be... Dwight Yoakam
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I envy people that have a pond or lake that they can manage however they want. I have to deal with a lady that thinks the aerator will shock her children, people that treat bass like pets (I have to smuggle the 11 inch overcrowded population out of the lake). A neighbor that stocks the lake with fish from a greedy fish farm (They actualy suggested stocking SMB in a LMB pond) So, If you do not have to deal with crazy neighbors consider yourself lucky.
Other than that I feel luck to have a place to watch fish, Fish, and implement some of the management strategies I have learned.
Sorry for the rant.
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That was only a minor rant Brett, so no need to apologize.
JHAP ~~~~~~~~~~ "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." ...Hedley Lamarr (that's Hedley not Hedy)
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Abnormal Psychology of Owning a Pond:
First pond: Fearing an outbreak of snail-born parasites, you stock RES to eat the snails.
Second pond: Fearing your RES will not have enough to eat, you stock snails.
"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever." -S. M. Stirling
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Sounds pretty normal to me.Abnormal...fear...psyco...yep,must be a pond owner
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Does anyone else dream all day about what they could do to their pond? My wife thinks I'm obsessed. I think the psychology of owning a pond no matter how big is obsession.
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My wife just thinks Im nuts.(And shes probably right too)
I subscribe Some days you get the dog,and some days he gets you.Every dog has his day,and sometimes he has two!
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"Sell crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here."
JHAP ~~~~~~~~~~ "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." ...Hedley Lamarr (that's Hedley not Hedy)
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