With this past weekend here in northwest PA. the blanket of snow Sunday morning is a reminder to get things taken care of before winter really sets in and we can’t finish our projects until next spring. I wanted to bring up a few different items to do around the pond to get it and [...]

Cattails are good for the pond but can become unruly and want to take up more area than we want them to have. Once they get started they will continue to grow along the shore and out into the water to a point of 4’ deep. Hand removal is one tough method, meaning it is [...]

It has been a crazy year so far, at least weather wise. It seemed like it took forever for summer to get here but when it did it came on strong and hot trying to make up for the cold rainy weather we had through almost all of July. So with our goofy weather pattern [...]

Back in early March I had the opportunity to speak with the Girl Scout Troop, 5th Grade Junior Troop #30822. The talk was on pond maintenance and care. What happens to the pond over the years and how to help bring the pond back under control and achieve healthy clear water once again along with [...]

WhatPond Helps Promote the 22nd Annual Secchi Dip-in with Donation Madison, WI – May 2015 – WhatPond, a leading provider of pond information and tools, is giving back with a donation of ten Compact Secchi Disks to the Secchi Dip-in. The Dip-in is a program of the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) that gathers [...]

I wasn’t sure I should post this here, but I know I had did  post with the boys introduction at some point on the site. They are as much a part as we are. Every evening when we fed fish, had a camp fire or simple went to walk around the pond checking them out [...]

Spring is hopefully here, at least it is warming up, buds on the trees and the grass is turning green. I guess the bummer part is the grass is growing too which means we’ll have to mow it eventually, bummer on that part. With the days getting longer and temperatures warmer the pond water is [...]

Spring has arrived, at least on the calendar it shows spring is here. After what seems like another long cold and lots of snow winter it good to know it’s almost over. (video at bottom) After seeing and plowing snow almost every day, to waiting for the temperature to rise above zero it seems like [...]

What a winter again this year without much of an end in sight. At first I was hoping for a light winter as we have had in the past but after last year with the Polar Vortex making a couple rounds we are at least not that cold this year so far. Still dipping in [...]