You Never Know What May Be Lurking in the Backyard

So I have again been AWOL for most of the week due to some yard maintenance emergencies and such. I have spent much of the week doing this:



And this:



(Gardening is a job requirement for any good housewife.)

Not only did I find a dead cat, a bunch of yucky leaves and some garbage as I was cleaning out the flower bed, but I also found bird legs and some feathers. Aside from that and all the thorns I pulled out of my forehead from sticking my face in the thorn bushes, it was a good time. I started off with the tiniest little hand clippers imaginable when apparently the neighbors saw how ridiculous I looked with my little hand clipper that they offered me their industrial length tree trimmer.

And of course, next week I'm on to this:



There may an elephant secretly lurking in my backyard jungle.

Oh, and then there's the wonderful garden pond that has gone neglected since we moved in.



Remember when last fall, right after we moved in, I tried to bring the fish pond fish in to the house for the winter so they wouldn't freeze? (If not, see The Fish are Dead) Yeah, that was a disaster. They all died within a week.

About a month later, I found all this fish water stuff in the basement that the old owners had left for us when they moved out. Would have been nice to know before hand that I was supposed to add all this stuff to the water to make it livable for them... But, the fish paid for my ignorance with their lives. And now the new fish that hubby's picking up on Monday mean I actually have to not only touch that yucky fish pond but that I have to touch it repeatedly to prepare for the new fish. Just what I need, more creatures to try and keep alive.

Oh, and after I found all the fish water stuff in the basement, I run into a friend who told me I'm supposed to just leave the fish in the pond for the winter. I thought what in the world, the fish'll become mummified in the frozen water, which is the exact fear that led me to bring them in and even buy a special rubbermaid container for them to live in last fall. I had recurring nightmares about waking up in the morning to a frozen pond with all my little fishies trapped in the water. But apparently they can still swim in the bottom of the pond in the winter. Who knew? Maybe I should have googled fish pond maintenance before attempting any kind of live saving efforts.




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