Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Country House

That's what my kids call it. The Country House.  We are moving there in June, just outside of the town we live now. Here's a picture of it:

Isn't it pretty? I can't wait to have that porch to sit on in the evenings while the kids run around in the yard. We also will have a pond behind the house, as well as some woods that we can hunt. The pond doesn't have a lot of fish in it, so we decided since we are going to be there for 3 years, we would take advantage and stock the pond. It's not a huge pond, so it won't take much to get it going. Today we took the first step by stocking it with 300 fish, a mix of blue gill and copper nose.

Can you believe that is 300 fish? I didn't count them myself...

We had to leave them in the bag and let it sit in the pond water for about 15-20 minutes so the water temperature wouldn't shock them. Then we released them into the water.

We also had to put fertilizer in the pond. This is my man gracefully throwing a scoop of the white stuff out into the water. We have to go back and repeat the fertilizer process in a couple of weeks. This helps the pond create enough vegetation for the fish to survive.

This is Eloise. She is an outside cat that the current tenants own, and are leaving behind for us to adopt. My daughter Rachel is beside herself, she has always wanted a cat.

I'm not a huge cat fan, but I think Eloise is sweet and pretty and she's starting to grow on me. I am anxious to  see how she and Buster interact with each other!

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