Emptiness

When we bought our house almost 20 years ago, there was already a tiny pond in our back garden. When our children were small, we considered to fill it up, but then decided on a fence around it, so nobody could fall in. Our 3 gold fishes became a large family and some smaller black fishes from a friend grew and reproduced themselves as well. Water lilies gave shade for the fishes and blossom for us.

Last winter we noticed that the water was getting low. Thankfully only very slowly and as the ice on the pond didn't stay nonstop we could add some water. All summer watering the pond along with the flowers became an almost daily job for my husband, so he had to take some action now.

While I was working on Saturday, he and a friend emptied the pond after catching the fishes and putting them in a very old  portable bath tube. They found an unbelievable amount of roots of the water flowers and plenty of mud. As there's no hole to be seen in the walls, we will line the pond with water tight material before filling it with water again. 

One of the fishes had been hiding successfully in the mud, so it landed on the field. Our neighbours cat was rather proud to catch it. To make sure, she won't go fishing in the bath tube, we covered it and hope for the best for our pets.

                                Happy and always hungry pets.

                                               Emptiness

                                             Water flowers

                                   Holiday home for the fishes