LOL,Ground here already has 1/2 cracks everywhere!!!

My other one has decided to get in on the act...... 🙂

And here it is today,

Steve
She's a beauty!!!

Thanks Don! This is the one I was going to send you the pups from, do you have room for the whole plant? ( the Aloes are starting to take over 🙂

BTW - The 3 goldfish that came from Wal-Mart last year for $.29 each are now 6" long, and I'm starting to notice more fish than what I started with....LOL

Just noticed the one that bloomed earlier is starting again, must be a good year to be an Aloe 😆

Steve, I've never seen Aloe bloom. Very very nice.
And TWO blooms in a season! 8)
Congrats...

Goldfish...from my experience, we put FOUR goldfish in a big big pond about 6 years ago.
My husband said he hoped they were either boys or girls, but not both.
We're at about 200 now! 😛
Barb

It is difficult to have goldfish in a pond here. The blue herons will get them

Won’t have enough room in the GH for all these. My daughter has been pestering me to put an aquarium in the house, so maybe she will get her wish. ( or if I can find a Heron looking for lunch 🙂

I hope your daughter gets her wish 😀

We get the odd heron stopping by the pond to snap up a fish BUT herons like to wade in through mud and reeds and grasses. We have rocks/boulders around our pond edge.
The heron can't get a good grip on the rocks (looks like a drunk teetering), ha ha 👿
He doesn't get many.

The Kingfisher is another story. The beggar dives in from 50 feet up, like an Olympic athlete.
Never comes up empty. 😥
Then there's the Osprey...he's a fish-catching MACHINE.

Oh well, that's nature.
As long as they leave a few in there every year.
Barb

Pond? That looks more like a lake ( Well, I guess you did say it was a big pond 🙂

Are you trying any water lilies or other plants in it?

Steve

I had looked at water lilies (to give the fish some shelter).
But you Americans will SHRIEK when you hear how much Canadian nurseries charge for 1 bloody water lily root...
FIFTY-NINE DOLLARS at Art Knapps Plantland.
For one plant. Plus 13% tax.

So I said to heck with it.
And anyway it would take a very long pole to get the lily out prior to winter 😕
It freezes solid, and the fish make it through winter every time.
They just nestle down in the dirt at the bottom.
Barb

Barb,
That is expensive! The box stores here have small starts for $9.95USD and I thought that was too much.

BTW ~ My daughter did get her wish 🙂

Steve

Steve, your daughter must be thrilled. 😀
How nice!

Your box stores sell roots for $9.95 ???
Hmmmm, with the dollars about par....but it would take me $59 in gas to get to the border, ha ha.

Barb