It's beautiful! I can't even imagine what it must be like with the plants all green and blooming and the fish swimming about! (:

Love your puppies! and the pind is gorgeous.

Well I got up this am and the fish aren't hiding as much so I thought I would snap a few more pix.
Well, there on my net in the corner was quite a surprise visitor.  Well I guess it's true "when you build it they will come". LOL!  He's a big fat tree frog!
I couldn't stand nothing blooming and it being so empty looking without folage that I decided to put in a planter with flowers in the middle of the pond.  It will be colorful and great shade for the fish.
I'll try to contain myself and not post too many more pix for awhile.
Thanx guyz for all your nice comments!

The fish in the big pond are 3-9 inches.
Isn't Freddo lovely?  He/she is the prettiest tree frog I have ever seen.

Lately I've been working on landscaping the front.  We put in two barrel ponds. (With one pouring into the other one)  One would do nicely if you haven't much space.   But my husband bought these for me several years ago and we haven't set them up in a few years and this year I was motivated!!
This year we decided to add them to the landscaping in the front of the house.  *Sigh it's such alot of work and still needs some mulch and more plants.  I bought a couple of 13 cent baby goldfish to put in the barrel ponds.
Right now they are swimming happily in a ten gallon tank in my office.  It's been so humid and warm I didn't want to put them outside yet when the weather has been well into the nineties!  Poor babies would boil.  The end of this week we will have some temps back down in the 70's so then they can go to their new summer home.
Well anyways, here are a couple of pix of the barrel ponds.

The barrel ponds hold about 30 gallons of water each.
Thank you for all the nice comments.
You are right, we have had alot of work to do. I think the nice weather so early has motivated us and given us more time to do yard work.  Forget the housework when you can be outside, right? LOL!    It went from winter right to summer weather this year.  I think we skipped spring altogether.  I can't believe it is only May and the weather has been humid and in the ninties.  This has been record highs for northern Michigan.

Mindemae, those barrel ponds are so lovely. I've never seen something like this before. Can you move them inside in winter? Hope this are no st*pid questions, LOL  Your fishies sure will have a life like in paradise.
And I agree, if there is gardening, etc to do, we forget about the housework too, LOL. Reminds me we need to mow pretty soon again... Too nice to be inside on a gorgeous day.
Even if it is winter here, during early to late lunchtime hours we do have 23-24 degrees Celsius. Nights are cold, about 9 cels at the moment, mornings and evos about 16.

I can imagine this was a very relaxing ambiente. I like the sound of running water, so calming

Thanx Kat!  I took a couple of more pictures of my bigger pond this am but only my shubunkin didn't mind the camera so much!

Oh Minde... that is a cute cute little shubunkin in there!!!! oh hes adorable!!! and such a pretty little pond

Wow Mindemae, I can see two cute fishies in your pond and gee, the flowers really grow so fast. And I love those barrel ponds too so much.  LOVE IT

One day, I might just have a go at ponds (: But first I need my own back yard d:

Pretty tank! How big is this? (: We had Zebra Danios once before too! They were so beautiful and lived for really long! (:

Once my bigger tank will be ready and moved to where it should be (our apartment, most probably) I was intending to keep some little guppies or something in my biOrb (: But I would buy a heater for it first, I think... anyway, I really want to keep using it somehow, and having some fine-leaved plants and smaller fish there would be so lovely!

Gosh that's terrible, Kat that someone would steal a bike!   How did you get it back?
Was the damage from the people that stole it?

That's terrible! My fiance's bike was stolen not long ago, we found it outside of a grocery shop by the town square. BUT ****, I was so pissed! His bike is something über good that he's customized for himself. I just wanted to hit the ******* that took it.

Kat, did you have to buy it back, or did they give it to your for free when you told them it was stolen from you?

lol well I had to show them the serial number to prove it was actually mine lol but yea then it was free.

lol Minde! An aquarium?? My bike was stolen by some homeless guy!!

XD