I thought I would start a thread just for fun. Just so we can laugh at ourselves.
I hope everyone can add at least one post to finish the sentence,
You know your addicted to ponding when ..............................................

during a power outage, you use your only generator to keep the waterfalls going while the food in the freezer spoils.

You're explaining future pond designs to your hubby. All the while you're standing in the snow in boots and your bathrobe drawing it out with a broomstick handle AND your hubby is getting his bum wet sitting on a snow and ice packed bench and neither noticed for at least a half hour. lol

thoose were great!!

you fall in the pond when its 35 degrees F and the first thing you thing about is, did I scare the fish.

you spend a lot of time scanning the sky for Blue Heron and if you see one you run franticly to the pond screaming and waving your arms,knowing the wedding ceremony you are having in your yard will continue when you get back.

you can remember all your fishes names but not those of your cousins at a family reunion

When your selling your extra car for fish and new pond filter money...and planning to make ponds out of extra horse tanks,before they even get moved to your new property..by the way some of your answers are very clever... :D

This is even worse..I'm thinking of taking some of the furniture and knick knacks I inherited from Grandma and Grandpa to an auction so I can add another pond onto my existing pond..already...I haven't even moved there yet..I'm already addicted to plants,now ponds/fish...it could be worse it could be drugs or alcohol... :P

you dig a hole and throw money into it.

it's -20 degrees F outside and at 5:00 am you'd rather be out breaking stream ice and hauling water from the house in 5 gallon buckets than shutting the pump off.

:lol: Johnny do you know my hubby?? That's exactly what he did this winter ( except the temp. was closer to just 18F.). He waited for me in the driveway at 7am huffing and puffing yelling at me to hurry up and go to Home Depot for the longest hose I could find...everything was frozen solid. We now have a 'pond only' industrial garden hose in the basement. :rolleyes:

I knew I wasn't the only IDIOT......., I knew I wasn't the only idiot......, I just knew it. Too funny!

Good idea to keep the hose in the basement. Normally I keep mine in the garage, but this year it froze in there too!

Me and your hubby would have a ball talking, comparing stories. No doubt we both have stories to tell; it's a love shared by few. Trust me, there are tricks/lessons learned to breaking ice and adding water. I was adding about 50 gallons a day during the tough freeze, and using a ~30 lb. 6' steel rod with a chisel end to break the stream ice. I rarely break the pond ice unless I just have to, and when I do it's only to open/widen the hole where the stream dumps in. I'm afraid the shock waves will kill the fish.

You waited until 5 am Johnny? I was out there at 2 am a few years back! I hauled out hot buckets of water to put down the falls. It doesn't get as cold here as you have it but I've had to bang the ice on the falls a few times. I usually use the end of the pond net but when it's bad, I pull out the sledge hammer and crawl across the falls. I too avoid banging on pond ice which irritates the fish; I only bang on the falls on rare occasions!

Robyn, You're so funny!

You tear up in the spring when you discover your frog has overwintered succesfully. ;)

You start to envision uses for all kinds of household items in your pond:

Can my kids lego blocks make a good biofilter material?

Black knee-hi's would be perfect around potted plants to keep dirt in.

Upside-down milk-crate = perfect stand for plants, and a hiding place for fish!

Hmm, I'll just take a few sandwich sized rubber maids with me to the pond store to the put the water lettuce in.

Your hubby tells you the it's time to get a new tractor for the farm and you insist that it has a backhoe attachment that you can use to dig a pond with. Then you learn how to use it so you can dig the pond ;)

You wash your hands before you put them into the pond .

That's actually good policy Wayne! I try to do so myself because I use a lot of hand cream with my hands drying a lot from all the water I stick them in. If we don't wash off hand cream or other things on our hands before going into the pond, those things can be transferred to the pond water. In a smaller pond, it may be enough to bother or even harm the fish.

Point taken.

You are so scared that the ducks will eat your fish, that you stand out on your little dock flapping your arms and quacking and yelling who's the big duck now trying to scare them away. Believe me it works, it scares them right out of the pond! Soon afterwards the neighbours quit waving to me though :blink:

Good one!
Wildlife in my garden pond drives me krazy. At least it will be a short drive. :blink:

hahahahahahaha..............


P.S. I saw the pictures of your pond......BEAUTIFUL to say the least :D

Wayne, my husband was JUST giving me a bad time about washing my hands before I put them in the pond! :lol: we're newbies, and I find myself getting out of bed at night to check on the pond!

Lori

Hi Lori
I hate to be the one to break the news to you, but you have got what I call "cops"
(check on pond syndrome)lol.
I got it so bad I replaced a 3'x4' window in my dining room with a 8'x7' bow window that overlooks the pond just so I could cop. I don't know if there is a cure, but than again why would anyone want to be cured.
Have fun.
Wayne

I have a routine "cops" routine. I check the pond when I feed the animals in the morning, when I get home from work on those days, and before dusk. Some days I wonder why but many times I find something wrong such as the pump's popped off again, or an animal is in trouble.

I have cops too.

I work from a shop at home and check on the pond first thing in the morning, then when I make first coffee break, then at lunch time, then second coffee break, then when I go home from work, then after dinner, then just before dark. I don't get up in the middle of the night though but might if I had babies.

Is there a Cops Anonymous? :lol: :rolleyes:

I would bet our fish sure hope there isn't a Cops Anonymous.

it is 100 degrees out in the shade, sweating in the middle July and you are already planning and worring about the winter

Or you wash your hands before you go to the pond then realize during lunch you didnt wash your hands after being IN the pond. (which I have done) pretty gross I know) :o

Chris

You turn down a trip to Mexico in February because you REFUSE to leave your fish under your old childs care! (well she is only 19 after all...jeez :rolleyes: )

you spend half your Saturday trying to make a rainbow over your pond.
And I did find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. {golden orfes that is}

Wow, Wayne, that's pretty! Did you create it with squirting water?

OK wayne compared to that my pond is a mud puddle. That is way cool

humbled.
:D ;)

ya wayne you win LOL

Thats right Robyn. I was pressure washing the deck and noticed a rainbow in the mist and one thing lead to another.
I have gotten so many good ideas from this site and all of your posts.Thanks to all.
Sorry if the ideas I give back are silly.

Wayne, a pond like yours isn't even on my 'WISH LIST'..it's on my 'OHHHHH, I WISH LIST'. I love my pond, but I can be totally jealous at times. <_< :rolleyes:

Too beautiful for words!!!!!

Wayne, even without the rainbow it is still a beautiful picture.
Thanks again for sharing :D