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[Mahen100]

Start my new job today! Last day of old job went good. No tears. Amicable departure.

I am so sick of raccoons and opossum. I can't believe someone would take a free one. I guess the key word is free.....? Should include free rabies with that post.

You all have a good day!

I am laughing all over again. Surely it was a spoof!

 

[Mahen100]

Thanks to Canadian, Chickat and perchie for the kind words about my wee pond. My son dug it one mother's day and used to landscape it with annuals each mother's day. Now it is perennials that provide shade and cove as he lives in Knoxviller. The Persian palm (elephant ears) actually bloomed last year...huge "bird of paradise" like flowers on two inch around stalks. Stunning. Above are a couple of earlier pics (what I thought I was posting last time)...when the pond was more manicured.

 

[Beer can]

I am laughing all over again. Surely it was a spoof!

I remember when he did this. I looked it up on his area craigslist, lo and behold, there it was super Lol!!

, can't remember exactly how it was worded, but it was funny.
I took a screen shot of the ad and posted it, think it was on 'cold folks home' thread that is now non-existent..

 

[Mahen100]

lolololol speechless in laughter.

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks to Canadian, Chickat and perchie for the kind words about my wee pond. My son dug it one mother's day and used to landscape it with annuals each mother's day. Now it is perennials that provide shade and cove as he lives in Knoxviller. The Persian palm (elephant ears) actually bloomed last year...huge "bird of paradise" like flowers on two inch around stalks. Stunning. Above are a couple of earlier pics (what I thought I was posting last time)...when the pond was more manicured.

That is so gorgeous -- you now have me thinking about a pond....uh oh. Nooooooooooooooooooooo

Love your fish too!

 

[Mahen100]

@Chickat, The first year is all about getting a pond established. After a couple of years, the amount of time you have to spend on it decreases dramatically. The "pet chicken" industry has NOTHING on outdoor water-feature or small ponds for gouging customers. . They really soak new pond owners....we will test your water for free! and won't let you leave until we have sold you something you may not even need, or may do more harm than good. Got pea soup water?...buy this chemical, got dead fish...by more and buy this chemical. They have a chemical solution for every management issue. And the industry charges an arm and a leg for those artificial solutions.. Do a LOT of online reading particularly on sights that have successfully managed small ponds naturally. It is best to wait until you have an established pond for a year before buying any fish other than "feeder fish" for a dime each. The butterfly koi in my pond I got for free. I had an old friend who had sunk an aboveground pool, used a Jucousi (sp) motor pumping huge volumes of water to a wooden barrel filled with sand for for filtration. I'd come out to take a look at his setup and make some suggestions for why he had "brown water" and he wanted to see his large koi. On instection...my friend didn't know it, but he had literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of small "fry" (baby butterfly koi) and I told him a "mud pond" was perfect for his current luck! I went back the next year and netted out three fingerlings....and big fish was among them. The other two succumbed to mis-management here when a hose was left running to top up the pond.

Aquarium knowledge will serve you well and go a long way to managing a small outdoor pond, and that is what gave me the bug too. If you want to breed though...crystal clear water in NOT what you want. I really wanted the sound of falling water by the patio as a sort of calming factor and that adds greatly to my enjoyment of being out there.

 

[1kluckychik]

I am laughing all over again. Surely it was a spoof!

No spoof at all.

 

[1kluckychik]

Raccoons in my area are hunted. People spend a ton of money on coon hunting dogs. The dogs run the coons into trees. The hunter then shoots it.
Their pelts bring a pretty penny.
Their meat is highly prized. So much so that some people started selling cats as counterfeit raccoon.
I have heard of people paying as much as $75 for a skinned and gutted raccoon.
Surely someone will take it off your hands for free

 

[1kluckychik]

 

[ChicKat]

I really do like raccoons when they aren't around our chickens -- they are one of natures marvels actually. HOWEVER it does make me want to promote a market to have people eat them -- HOWEVER again -- then people would want to raise them for selling to get big-bucks-per-pound and they would escape and there would be more and more hungry ones roaming around.
They are as fierce as bears when cornered and they can be as cute and funny as clowns too.