Kristy leave it to you to rescue a frog. Do you remember the photos of my frogs that Eloise posted for me? Those things will keep you awake at night once they start making babies.....LOL The bullfrogs always sound like they are in the house here at night. We had an invasion of those little red frogs here last year. Everywhere you went you were stepping on them or dodging them. I'm hope we don't have as many frogs here as we did last year. Oh you better watch John real close when the frog starts growing his front legs. You will probably come home one day and he will be eatting FROG LEGS. LOL Did you lotus plant make it through the winter? I think mine croaked. I do have some good news tho'. You know that huge hole I had in the front yard for nearly a year? Well this past week hubby and son in law put the liner in the hole and put the rocks aroudn the edge. Yippeee I have another pond and this one is alot bigger than the one in the back. I also bought another preformed pond from Lowes. It was on sale for less than 1/4 of what the regularly are. It is the biggest one they carried last year and they are being discontinued. So if your in the market for another preformed pond you might want to look and see if your Lowes has one marked down too. One Lowes had them marked down to $50 something dollars and they had two of them. I was going to buy them and connect them to one another with a waterfall. Then I went to another Lowes and they had one just like the two for $50 but theirs was only $30. How in the world could I pass something like that up. LOL Now I just have to figure where I"m going to use it. I may use it only to grow plants so the fish will not eat them and uproot them. Tell John hello! Marian

The pump was put in two weekends ago, and the waterfall has been sounding just so lovely. Before that I had the little skimmer pump moving the water around while we did water changes. All our fish survived, the only casualty of the winter was Bubba, the big frog. So now Wannabe is going to be called Bubba, and Waldo will be Wannabe, and any one of the smaller ones will be Waldo. They all look the same to me except for relative size... The goldfish are jumping out of the water, and our lone big koi is cruisin'. The had cheerios for a while in April, then spring/autumn food. Today the water temp was over 60, and I gave them summer food - mostly because I'm almost out of spring food... I have to order some. They sure didn't mind. The day the ice melted from the pond surface, was the day that the first lily leaf poked its head up. There are many lily leaves now and the pickerels and grassy marginals are all starting up. They all need repotting - but, no rush... We took the sediment filters apart last fall, they were working well but too large and unwieldy when wet. And the screws had rusted through. So we have to design a lighter weight version now. Meanwhile the double settling chamber is helping a lot even without the filters. Maybe we'll get that done this weekend. Weekends without ponding are hardly worth staying home for! :) Mary

Hmmm, I planted ranuculus and anemones and peonies in that spot but I have no ideas which it is, lol. It pretty though. The foliage looks the same on the blue one as the pink and white one. As to the cacus I'll look up candelabra. I have never seen it other than the cuttings so I don't know what the plant will look like. Rigo can you post a pic of your grown plant? Does it flower? I hope the thunbergia is grandiflora that would be great. I got it in the season last year and only got a few blooms before it went dormant. My neighbor said it was hardy for him so I planted it outside and hoped for the best. My philodendron is coming back I planted in the front bed too. Miss B Havin is having her first bloom. I just got back from a party but I'll see if I can go out and get pic. These glasses I just got or the beer is making typing kind of difficult. I keep having to go back and correct myself, lol. Rigo the 3rd one you mean the cactus cuttings or the tube shaped flower shrub? Those flowers were kind of past their prime. They were dark purple before they started drying out. I wonder if they only bloom on old wood. Only one stem bloomed and all the new green wood doesn't look like it has any blooms setting. It was a cutting I took from somewhere last year.

You should set up in business! Big Kid