Well, they seem to be a bit less timid. They eat what I put out for them, though they never come to the surface to do so. There is one gold fish (not a goldfish, but a koi) that is looking quite plump.

The pond has some algae issues, which I am trying to control without killing all of it.

I can not actually count how many are in there, but as none had floated to the surface, I must assume that I have 8!

This dragonfly stopped by for a visit, and stayed long enough for me to get many, many pictures. Allowed me to get within about 5 or 6 inches! Click the “more” link to see some better ones!

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This morning I logged onto Facebook.
My goal: to find the two comments that my friend LadyMck had made on some family July 4th pictures! Now,  one would think that these would be right there at the top of my main page, waiting for me to see. After all, it is MY Facebook page! But no, there are 5 million posts about such scintillating things as “When would you die in a horror film?”, “What character would you be in Harry Potter?”, “If you were a duck would your quack echo?”, along with info about what everyone is doing today: “nothing”, “sleeping”, “wishing they were sleeping”, “going to a huge party tonight”, “resting up from the huge party last night”………………..
So after giving up in that page, I click on photos, hoping to see MY photos!! No! I see everyone’s photos!! The whole world has photographed something and posted it to my Facebook page!

Needless to say, Facebook has overwhelmed me, just as MySpace did before. There is too much shit! My friend Gary has a “pimped out pad in Yovile”! I do not understand why, when I am sure his home in Modesto is nice enough. Someone wants me to join their Farm Town community. I live on a farm, why would I want to join another one?

Facebook makes me think of the tentacles of an octopus, grabbing me and sucking me into its gaping maw, ready to eat me alive if I do not escape it! I want to kill this thing! I want it to go away!

Here is what I really want. A site which does the simple thing of allowing me to say what I am doing and see what everyone else is doing. I want to comment on what I am doing and what other people are doing. I want to have a button I can click to see your pictures and a button you can click to see mine!

I do not want to join any clubs, or groups or be a fan! I do not want to send or receive any virtual gifts because those things are not sellable on Ebay!

Christ, I just want to be free from the cloying, suffocating miasma that is Facebook!

No, this is not the title of a Dr. Seuss story.
It appears that a stray cat has decided to reduce my fish population. There should be 8 fish in my pond. I can see none of them. Going to remove the plants and take a better lookon Tuesday, but I am not hopeful!
I HATE CATS!!!
Later that day: It appears I may have judged the aforementioned cat a bit harshly. Upon further review, there seem to be at least 4 live fish in the pond, and perhaps more, revealed by removing the plants and observing their activity with a flashlight!.

I STILL HATE CATS and I am beginning to hate fish as well!

So tonight I went to Wal-Mart and bought three fish which are either koi or comet goldfish. Hard to tell as they were in the same tank and the pictures were hard to fathom, and the perfume lady was the one getting them out for me as the fish lady was at lunch.

I also bought some fish flakes, as opposed to the pellets I had been trying to get my koi to eat with no luck.

I put the new fish into the pond!

Sprinkled some fish flakes into the pond.

All SIX fish, new and old, had a field day with the fish flakes, and it was nice to confirm that the other three were still alive!!

All decorated for the Fourth of July!!!