We had our first snowstorm of the season yesterday - got about 6-8 inches of soft, fluffy flakes!
This is the view out of my bathroom window this morning - it's so quiet and pretty out there right now. Thought I'd share a few pictures with you all...
Ornamental grasses on top of the pond waterfall hill... hard to tell they are on a hill, huh?
Thanks for the pictures, Lynne. I love seeing winter landscapes. Six to eight inches is a goodly amount to decorate an area.
Merme
We were given two hands to hold, two eyes to see, two ears to listen & two legs to walk. But why were we given only one heart? The other heart was given to another for us to find.
Loz - I put another 4 baby koi in there in September, but never saw them again after I put them in, because the water was so dark and cloudy. They hadn't come up in any filters before Don shut them down, so I'll keep my fingers crossed. Only problem is... we didn't get a heater, or leave a hole in the surface - I'm hoping Don will try and make one today when he goes out to shovel the front walk.
Is there any way to open a hole in the ice that would keep it open so you don't have to keep doing it? I don't know much about backyard ponds though I'm interested.
Merme
We were given two hands to hold, two eyes to see, two ears to listen & two legs to walk. But why were we given only one heart? The other heart was given to another for us to find.
Thanks sooooooooooooooooo much for a much needed chuckle right now! :wink:
Your graphics just keep getting better and better and better!!!
Thanks to everyone else for your nice comments. We got about another 4 inches overnight and today. But they are now calling for rain Christmas Eve and Christmas day. One never knows what kind of weather we are going to have next nowadays here!
Yup that amount is pretty.. We have been in the middle of a blizzard all day.. Blowing snow, drifting snow.. 10 degrees. IT stopped being pretty after the last storm on Thursday. This was the straw. I will take pics tomorrow. Some of the mounds are 8 or 9 feet high from the snow blower, and thank god for it. I had to keep a heater on it in the garage all day, cause the Auger plate froze with a huge chunk of ice from FRiday. Thank god and yes I did pray, IT did not brreak it. OH yeah.. I forgot I was not going to talk about the weather.
Lynne, if Don didn't put a hole in the ice tell him not to.....my pond book says breaking the ice can put the fish into shock. If you can just wait until it thaws out a bit float one in then. I have 2 in mine right now.....I feel so bad for the fish though, I keep seeing them swimming around under the ice.....poor guys.
Too late, Loz - he pounded 2 large holes in it yesterday and floated 2 basketballs on top - but he says they are not going to do anything but freeze into the ice anyway. I couldn't even see the balls today after we got more snow on top!
I am not holding out much hope for those fish, so if one or more actually do make it, it will be a very pleasant surprise!
I can't imagine how you guys live with all that ice and snow. I keep asking how come your water doesn't freeze? If we don't keep our dripping at night it freezes and the pipes burst.
The colder the climate you live in the deeper they bury the pipes. And usually insulate any exposed ones too. Our pipes are just inches underground and not insulated. That being said, there was a burst pipe from the freezes we have had and I was without water for a couple of hours today so it could be repaired.
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Ours arent insulated. Where they come into the basement we cemented it well and no problem since. I know folks here with trailers have the freeze problems with water.. Pipe isnt buried .
we can leave our water dripping sheri, cause it doesn't get AS cold here as it does farther up north. the plumbing up north is buried deeper than it is here.
Cricket
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker
Johnny just informed me that our pipes are buried deep everyone's well house is above ground and the pipes go into the well house and that's where the freezing takes place.
All houses here have a basement........it's so weird to me that some areas don't have them, although I know that how high you are above sea level can be a major factor.
MOST houses also have basement sump pumps for pumping out flooding....luckily, knock on wood, my house and moms house don't get water......during one of our big floods the house next to moms had water almost to the top of the basement ceiling. My best friend lived there at the time and was in a state of panic.
Ours isn't totally finished, but it's not a dark scary basement like many are. It has 4 rooms, the first one may one day get converted to a bedroom when we sell the house eventually. Right now we just keep the treadmill in there and a rocking chair and tall wicker shelf. Also have lots of decorations in there......behind that room is Marks workshop. You can see the age of the house there. The foundation in that part is big huge rocks......behind the workshop is a 2nd bathroom. Toilet, sink, shower, water heater too. It needs fixed up but right now it's passable to use. The other side is the laundry room, nice and roomy with shelving Mark made. Clothesline, metal cabinets, and big freezer. There is a door to the back bottom porch in there too.
The first house we ever looked into buy had a scary basement. There was a huge dead bird on the concrete floor and a spider on the wall as big as my fist. My sisters old house in town was really nice, but the basement was even scarier....it had a bunch of small rooms throughout it and was very dark and musty and creepy. Her laundry room was way at the back of the basement. If I lived there I'd be too scared to go down and do it.
Basement appeal is important to me as you can tell.
Loz, When we moved, we were looking for 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, a fireplace and a FULL basement.----well we got all of that---our basement was not properly finished though---where the waterline was brought in was not properly sealed, and tends to leak---and then on the opposite side of the basement there is a crack, from a eathrquake we had a year or so ago---Rod would not let me call the insurance Company as his friend told him they would charge him a very high deductable-----I think THAT was jsut childish, how does whst one persons insurance is like have to do with how mine reads???.
--We too have a sump pump---and so all is well, but I doubt if we ever get to have anything actually finished properly because of all the cracks in it.---- But yes a basement is important to me too---It is great storage---
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Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
All houses here have a basement........it's so weird to me that some areas don't have them, although I know that how high you are above sea level can be a major factor.
MOST houses also have basement sump pumps for pumping out flooding....luckily, knock on wood, my house and moms house don't get water......during one of our big floods the house next to moms had water almost to the top of the basement ceiling. My best friend lived there at the time and was in a state of panic.
Ours isn't totally finished, but it's not a dark scary basement like many are. It has 4 rooms, the first one may one day get converted to a bedroom when we sell the house eventually. Right now we just keep the treadmill in there and a rocking chair and tall wicker shelf. Also have lots of decorations in there......behind that room is Marks workshop. You can see the age of the house there. The foundation in that part is big huge rocks......behind the workshop is a 2nd bathroom. Toilet, sink, shower, water heater too. It needs fixed up but right now it's passable to use. The other side is the laundry room, nice and roomy with shelving Mark made. Clothesline, metal cabinets, and big freezer. There is a door to the back bottom porch in there too.
The first house we ever looked into buy had a scary basement. There was a huge dead bird on the concrete floor and a spider on the wall as big as my fist. My sisters old house in town was really nice, but the basement was even scarier....it had a bunch of small rooms throughout it and was very dark and musty and creepy. Her laundry room was way at the back of the basement. If I lived there I'd be too scared to go down and do it.
Basement appeal is important to me as you can tell.
Loz.............maybe you ought to just buy a basement?????/
Those basements sound great, I've never had a house with one. Only the oldest houses have them here, and they are just usually dingy single rooms. I'd love to have a basement with several rooms, just think of the extra space!
How do you deal with damp though? do they have a damp proof course or tanking or something?
Some basements are treated with a special moisture barrier sealer....luckily ours has never needed that. And then people that get water in the basement have the sump pump so they can pump the water out.....
My best storage space is in Marks workshop....it has a tiny set of stairs leading up to this little door that leads to a short ceilinged room under the front porch. It's long and narrow but it's where I keep my gazillion boxes of seasonal decorations.
And you're right. Our home in England didn't have a basement, and Nana's didn't have a basement either now I think about it. Moved here to the US when I was 7. I never really thought about the fact that the houses don't generally have basements there. Do you have a little outbuilding? We lived in an attached house (of course), and we had a little tiny shed thing that used to be an outdoor toilet......
Every house here has a basement unless you live in a trailer home...and some people build basements under them here too. We have to have somewhere to go when the tornadoes come. I wouldn't know what to do without my basement. It is great storage. Maybe those without basements just have bigger houses with more storage closets.
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Did you leave any fish in there, I can't remember.....
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My best friend lived there at the time and was in a state of panic. 
