I spent pretty much the whole day working on the pond.  I spent part of that standing in the pond.  The fish are not afraid of the pond vacuum, or my legs.  I couldn’t get every bit of debris out, but I ended up replacing almost half the water, and getting out almost a gallon of goo.  Maybe more, since a lot of it was particles too small for the mesh bag to capture.  I’ve decided that next year, the vegetable garden is going closer to the pond outlet.  Heh.  I only hope that the pond water doesn’t make the vegetables smell like pond.

So now the fish can be seen, and they’ve been very amusing.  The 3 inch koi look like they’re almost 4 inches already.  It’s been only a week and some!  The shubunkins have been bullying them around – that situation will change soon enough, I’m sure.  Dennis, the biggest shubunkin, was chasing Kyle, Audrey’s koi, and Kyle jumped straight up out of the water and back in.  Those little guys are pretty fast.  They’ve all been ambushing each other from behind the plant pots, lying in wait behind them until another fish comes by, then darting out from between two pots.

And in other pet news, Toby’s off to the vet again.  The fur is coming off her head and neck in tufts, and the skin looks awful – and her chin is getting gross again.  The worst of it is that all this stuff is itchy, and she wants us to scratch it for her.  I love this cat, but. . .ewww.