Hi everyone, are you ready for spring yet! I hope you folks are surviving the winter ok. I miss hanging out with you all. It was a crazy 08. I’m glad we got through it. This winter has been an old fashioned one so far, like when I was a kid. We’ve been getting a snowstorm every week. We’ve received over 50 inches of snow already. Mannnnnnnnn…I’m sick of snow. With all this cold & snowy weather, I’ve been thinking a lot about the next phase in my hardscaping.
My good friend, who is my acupuncturist, has a beautiful baby koi in a large aquarium in his clinic. He is planning on placing him in a pond someday. Maybe mine

if I can complete my yard in the next couple of years.
I’m starting to research koi and goldfish now. Since we had to lay to rest our beloved dog Elvis in November

I’ve been thinking about koi.
I know George has mastered the art of koi husbandry. So I was wondering if George and the gang could recommend a good koi forum? Do any of you belong to one?
Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto,
J
Many Things of the past
flood to my mind
as I stand in the garden gazing at a cherry tree.
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)