It was a beautiful weekend. Luckily so, since the pump on the indoor fish tank has been dying a slow, noisy death these past two weeks and I'm running out of jerryrigs to keep it going. The tank is the winter home of our pond fish: one large Koi, two medium, and three small. Small being four inches while "Whitey" is just under a foot long.

Saturday and Sunday was spent chipping out the ice block in the pond, draining the water, and then cleaning out the scum and frog bodies. Much better frog count than last year when a dozen of them tried their hand at wintering in the two foot deep pond...or should I say two foot thick rubber-lined ice block. What a mess. Last fall I netted the stray frogs and transported them to the wetlands down the road. No idea how they find my little pond in the first place. Only one dead frog this time and, surprise, surprise, one live frog.

The Pond has been refilled, fish transported, and for fighting off the cold spells I have an old waterbed heater I toss in.

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