Annikki has been working desperately to get the Kampitie garden to its very best. She worked hard when her mother was away in the Old People's Home at the latter half of April. Even after her mother returned home, every spare sunny period has been much effort on Annikki's part to make sure everything is right. (She rested in the hammock when she got tired!)
I pumped out the water from the pond and Annikki cleaned it. We were both surprised to find that the lotus had survived the winter at the bottom of the pond.
Annikki's new additions this year are a gatekeeper for the "Green Door" and a "farmhand couple" at the door of the "Greenhouse".
As we walked around the garden, it really felt that we were entering into a summer phase.
Having got the garden just right, we waited for a really "warm" day so that Annikki could reintroduce the goldfish from the two inside aquariums back into the pond.
Last week we thought that day had come. Annikki brought the goldfish down and very carefully reintroduced them into the large pond.
As we stood to admire our brood, we both almost entered a state of shock, just as the goldfish, as they went lower and lower down in the pond. They were literally dying before our eyes. The cold water was just too cold for our brood of 14 and they were keeling over.
Annikki acted quickly.
She got out her fishing net and, with a rapidity that was unbelieveable, she netted her brood and put them into warmish water in a bucket.
We held our breaths and waited.
Within a few minutes we saw the activity in the bucket increase as the fish were warmed to the fishbone!
Both of us were relieved to have saved our 14 family members from certain death.
We put them back into Annikki's table top aquarium. We found all of them none the worse from their life-threatening experience.
Hopefully, their trust in their feeder, Annikki, will be restored in the coming days!
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