Oct 13th - Pond Cleaning

Yesterday we went to town in the morning. Kathy had a doctors appointment. I got a much needed haircut from Larry, I love going to his shop. I picked up my new glasses, they are a disappointment. I don't notice that much improvement in my vision. Had I know the change was going to be so slight I would have kept the nearly $600 the glasses cost me. Yes, nearly $600 for one pair of glasses. My uncorrected vision is so bad that glass lenses would be horrendously thick. The lenses I get are some super duper high index plastic that allows them to be much thinner (but still quite thick), and lighter, than glass lenses.

We got our annual flu shots while in town. After some grocery shopping we stopped for lunch at the Dragon Kitchen's buffet and then headed home.

In the afternoon Kathy cleaned up dust from Doug's construction work and I cleaned up around the pond. The water is LOW! The lowest is has been while we have been here, and it has never been that high. It is probably about 3' below the spillway. I did a "walk about" Thursday, after Mom and Doug left. I walked our south property line, down below the pond. I sure wonder why they put the dam where they did. Had the dam been located closer to the property line the pond could have been much larger. Probably 5 times larger, but still less than an acre. I guess they didn't do it because the dam would have been larger, more expensive. We did see lots of fish in the pond while looking at it with Doug one day. I can hardly believe that it is large enough to support all the fish we saw. I've never seen any dead fish on the shore.

Below is part of the wood I cleaned up. I dragged most of it, used my tractor on the larger pieces (LOVE THAT TRACTOR) up from the edge of the pond. I added a couple of more small trees (4 & 6" diameter by 12-20' tall) to the load after I moved to the other side of the pond.

I though about getting out my lawn tractor, just so I'd have every piece of equipment that I own involved in the clean up <grin>.

Still no rain. Rain forecast is 50% today and 30% tomorrow. Radar looks like we may get some in the evening.

This afternoon I'm going over to Kelsey and Andy's (and Lydia's) and we are going to install the exhaust for her microwave. Andy got an "emergency call" this morning and is in making repairs to a new car that was dinged this morning. It is supposed to be delivered this afternoon. Kelsey and Lydia picked up Kathy and they went to town.

I've decided it is to late to see Utah's canyon country this fall. I'll wait until it warms up next spring to see it. My current plans are to start volunteering at a camp near Bryan, TX about Nov 1st.

Have a great day. May God bless you and yours.