Education

Wow...I learned a great many new things today...
1) The tiny pump on the fish fountain clogs easily. It’s best to start with a clean pond.
2) When you’re filling a pond that is, by the way, UPHILL from your water spigot, it’s a good idea to remove the hose from the pond after you turn ot off. Otherwise, the combination of a) a hose full of water, b) a downhill slope, and c) gravity, physics and a lack of thinking through what you’re doing will lead to your pond siphoning out. The water coming out of the hose where it’s connected to the faucet is NOT, in fact, due to faulty plumbing. This is an especially harrowing experience when you have fishies in the pond. Huh.
3) When cleaning your pond (after rescuing the fishies and siphoning it on purpose this time) you have to scoop out the stuff in the bottom. It turns out that both dogs and small children enjoy playing in the foul-smelling muck pulled out of said pond. Also that the smell lingers. Huh, again. Also, something that I’ve learned over the past couple of weeks in that my dogs love water plants. And it doesn’t bother them a bit that the plants are completely submerged. They’ll dunk their heads in and pull them out. Can’t think of a solution offhand to that one...