and not long after the social ended they got hailed so bad this was the one that closed Elitch Gardens for the first time ever (in over a century). Saturday and Sunday everything was planned outside. The classic was the International Water Lily Society had their conference at Denver and Friday night everyone arrived and they had a little welcome social that Friday about dark. Then the other hail magnet was having a 'pond tour'. Some of the club members had 2 person carry-and-set plywood shelters to run out and set over their lotus at a moment's notice. Get them to fully leafed and ready to bloom, BAM. We had a keeshond that was good at treeing raccoons about 2 hours before sunrise and the fall we moved they were so bad we had to take turns rising at 3:30 and going outside to sit and guard the pond until about sunrise, even with the dog they were brazen enough to come visit and some of the old coons just didn't dog-scare. Our other problem there was herons were protected and there was a preserve not far away so we considered that all of us were just contributing to the preserve (feeding the herons) and only a dog that slept outside and would truly go barreling after a heron was the only solution we had. It cost them 25# of Gravytrain a week to keep their pond. If you have raccoons, sometimes the best you can do is bribe them if you can't trap them where we used to live in foothills (front range) some members of our pond club would buy dogfood and put it out for the rascals to keep them out of the pond.
overall, a pond and watergardening is so worth it. Still, there are times that the ponds are worth every cent, then there are times when I'm in muck up to there and it's sleeting down my neck and I wonder why. Thankyou, RLI, but it happens in koikeeping.
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