This weekend I officially moved the pond fish into the Rubbermaid tote that serves as their ‘winter home’. Complete with rocks and a bubbler, it keeps us from having to worry about keeping our small outdoor pond clean and ice-free during the winter. A couple weekends ago we fashioned some wire mesh into a leaf cover for our pond for the fall/winter. It was (and still is) entirely experimental, however we realized quickly we had a slight problem, in the fact our fat neighborhood cats would come drink from the pond, and the wire mesh could not support them. Each morning I’d go out to find the mesh sagging into the water with rocks from the outside edge rolled down into the middle. This weekend we fashioned some “legs” of sorts out of spare PVC pipe and wired the whole works together. The cats might be upset they have lost their drinking hole, but I think the legs will work nicely to keep the wire mesh out of the water letting the falling leaves stay drier and blow across, and then this winter the snow should melt through the mesh. Compared to the last several years of doing nothing, the pond will hopefully be much cleaner come next spring. 🙂
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