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This post is for my oldest sister in NYC, I finally had a chance to clean my fish pond, the water is a lot clearer now as you can see, having fish pond is a lot of work but the rewards are ten-fold.
Also, my second sister’s fish are a lot bigger, her pond is smaller than mine and not as deep, but she sure does have lots of fish.
It has been 7 days since I posted the photos of the baby robins, and now they’re ready to test their wings. I’ve noticed in the last days or so that they’re getting bigger and more active, and thought some of them might be ready to fly. I came home for lunch today, but instead of eating, I only had time to watch the mother and father robin feeding the baby robins, yes both were there feeding the babies and it startled me when both were there at the same time that I failed to capture the image. Needless to say, by the time I was ready to go back to work, those worms actually looked pretty good. The photos were taken from the inside of my house, if the mother and the father robin knew that I was watching, they would not come near the nest.
Updated 5/4/2008: I spotted the mother and one of the baby robins today in my backyard. It appears that the mother robin was trying to teach her baby how to find worms, and she was actually feeding the baby robin with the worms that she found. I’ve never seen anything like this before, I guess I never paid close attention to their behaviors, I thought after they leave their nest, that is the end of having to care for their youngins but it’s not like that at all. As I was watching, the baby robin walk off whilst the mother was busy digging for worms, when she looked up with worms in her mouth, the baby robin was gone, she was hopping around looking for her baby.
I wouldn’t call this a tag, but more like asking to share by K, A Dialogue With K, of what’s on my desktop, needless to say, mine is a bit boring and I think what’s on my desk topic is more interesting, so I’ve decided to share this one, might still be boring to some to look at.
As you can see, it’s mostly reading materials; I’ve a Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Practical English Usage-Third Edition, Descriptive Word finder that I don’t use very often, and many Thai magazines that I translated from. I always keep my cell phone on my desk while I blog, just in case if someone were to call me, but very seldom that anyone would, and would mainly use it as an alarm clock.
On top of my sub-woofer, I have 3 of my elephant’s collection, there’re many big pieces around the house. I’ve a wire cup that I’m using to hold my pencils, I like to write my notes with pencil while I’m blogging, it’d normally end up in my trash can after I’m done with my post. I’ve a Dell PC, and a 19-inch flat panel LCD monitor.
I visited my younger sister yesterday because I saw her last week and she mentioned about my GI Joe sister is into raising Pee Heih (ghost) now a day, and I wanted to see what it looks like, my GI Joe sister lives right next to my younger sister. I also want to see my younger sister fish ponds, her latest one that I’ve not seen is the one on her deck, she said that she purchased a water tub that’s used for horse feeding, and it looks real pretty sitting on her deck, the view from her window looking from the inside is amazing, this I’ve got to see for myself.
When I got to her house, something in her hallway caught my attention, it was her Buddha alter and made me think of K who recently thought about getting a Buddha statue for his flat. This is a Japanese Buddha statue, you can tell by the shape of the face and round head. Thai or Lao Buddha statue has a more pointy-head to signify brightness, pointy meaning ‘Lamh’ (sharp); this was once explained to me by a local monk.
This is her pond on her deck.
This post is for my oldest sister in NYC, this is her finished project, big improvement from her previous fish pond.
I came home for lunch today and my water lily is in bloom, the only time that it’d bloom for me is during the noontime, if I wait until evening, it’d have been closed. I got lucky today and couldn’t resist showing it off.
I’m happy as to how the pond looks now, but it has not been this way in the past, more like pea soup color, I was a bit depressed at first. At one point, I drained out half of the water and refilled it with new water, and dropped all kinds of chemical in there to make it clearer, but nothing seemed to work. Then I visited my second sister, she told me that it was supposed to be like that for the first couple of weeks until the ecosystem of the pond balance itself, at this point I feel a bit stupid, but at the same time relief that there’s hope for my pond.
The water lily plant seems to help make the pond water clearer; I read that when you introduce desirable aquatic plants into your water garden, they compete with pond algae for the available nutrition, and if there are enough plants, they’ll naturally minimize the available nutrition and in the process, they’ll control pond algae for you naturally. I think my Koi fish also eat the algae. Below are photos taken today
This is one of my sisters’ fish/lily pond, which she wanted my oldest sister in NYC to see. The lily pads and fishes were very small when you last saw them over a month ago; see how big they are now. Read the rest of this entry »
I normally read almost everyday, whether it’s current events, magazine articles, or books so I don’t know what it feels like not being able to read for a long period. For most of us, that like to go on-line everyday, it would feel somewhat strange not to be able to. The last couple of weeks that I wasn’t able to go on-line on a regular basis, I felt like I missed out tremendously on the current events. I think if you’ve gone on-line for a long period of time, it can be very additive but for some that have never gone on-line before, I often wonder if they feel like they are missing out on what the world wide web has to offer. Of course, television is a good substitution for PC.
Sometimes you can tell a person by the books that they read, especially the types of book. The types of book that you read can tell a lot about you, what type of person you are, especially to expert that analyze this might be able to look at you as if you are an open book. I personally think that it’s great for those that love to read, you’ll never feel lonely because you will always have a friend that’s there for you when you feel alone. Most readers have a better chance to become successful in life.
Books are very similar to movies. Your taste of movies reflects the type of person you are, and your personality. Those that don’t like to watch movies would most likely don’t like to read. You probably wondering if there are such people in this world that don’t like to read or watch movies. It’s obvious that you like to read otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this right now. I think some of you might even be a bookworm, which I know I am and not ashame to admit.
I’m positive that there are a great numbers of people in this world that don’t like to read. They’ll read as little as possible, only on things that they need to function on a day-to-day basis, but not reading for enjoyment like you and I. One of my sisters doesn’t like to read or watch movie; she thinks it’s a waste of time. I sometimes wonder what she does for entertainment, but one thing that I know is that she can’t think beyond her own thoughts, and the world revolves around her. She has a very small world and feels lonely most of the time. She has the tendency to be too serious about her life and her work. She seems very successful in what she’s doing, but not very lasting types of success because she gets bored of her job very easily and a bit paranoids about everything.
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