Do you have a pond?

Our neighborhood has a large pond/small lake. On summer evenings one crazy old codger takes a small boat out to the middle and fishes. I don’t know if he catches anything or if it’s just a place where nobody can catch him. Maybe I should take my toddler and some stale bread there and see if there are little fish to feed. With bread, not with the toddler. That would take a large fish.

Friends of ours have an ornamental pond with goldfish and frogs and water lilies. They have perpetual trouble with the liner springing leaks.

I have a small plastic pond I built a bed around, and always keep a couple of small containers full of water around the house because I love frogs. I have an old 10" metate in the front bed and most evenings I can find a leopard frog squatting in it. Live on a windy prairie ridge so don’t have much problem with skeeters, problem with keeping shingles on the roof though…

I have small ponds in dragon pots. Lots of fish and a few toads I would rather not have. I love water lilies.

Two large (fish/farm) ponds. Lots o’fish. Also, they are wildlife ponds as I live in the wilderness. I was obliged to capture and relocate a three-legged gator last summer. He had returned to my big pond the last two springs and he was getting too big to be so close to the homestead.

Toads are cool and they eat a lot of bugs. YAY TOADS!

StG