The pond is open. The ick is over.
I’m smiling not because I like it, but because it’s over. Taking the netting off the koi pond each year is always filled with heartache and slime. Heartache because we sometimes have lost one or two, and slime because the rest of those things can make a muck. Last year, Scott had plugged in the heater via household extension cords (thru the snow)… so we spent an afternoon burying the dead. This year, I opened the pond with the help of Gardener Gina and Westminster (who would have rather been promoting
his book). It was relatively painless, except for the slime and having to pick out flapping fish from the net and get them back in water… before they drowned in air! What’s
your ickiest spring chore?
