Good Morning Everyone!! It has rained every day since June and it is not relenting. What a wet year it has been…we have been unable to plant any vegetables or seedlings for three months because the water table is is always high. Anyway, every cloud has a silver lining and this year the pond filled up immediately after only drying out for 2 weeks (usually it stays dry for two months of the year). We were able to re-introduce our tilapia fingerlings into the pond and after three months, the pond is teeming with small, medium and big fishes. We had such a good harvest earlier in the year and are trying to get the fish breeding optimised so we can fish all year round.
Earlier this year, I had been fishing with a bamboo pole with dental floss string with a fish hook attached to the end. I used fish food as bait and manage to catch about one fish every minute. It was so easy since the the pond was so well stocked up. Gnome has offered to get me real fishing gear but I am okay to stick with traditional because it works fine enough. Besides, I am tired of cramming more possessions into our tiny little house.
Since I was only able to fish on the edge of the pond, Gnome has made a raft out of bamboo stick so that I can get around the pond easier. So, here it is…The launching of the raft!! We didn’t have a spare champagne bottle during the launch so just settled for loud cheers…
Here are some more pictures to show you since Gnome put a lot of time, attention and effort into making it. We have put empty plastic bottles underneath the bamboo to help it float up. It is very sturdy and takes both our body weights and we can move around by paddling with a long bamboo stick. It is really quite romantic floating about on a bamboo raft on the pond.
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I am really pleased with the raft and I am planning to do some fishing this weekend. It is a very nice spot out here to get away from the stress of angry, dastardly geese!!
There you go…we are trying to make our own Munchkin and Gnome paradise in the middle of nowhere!