On the fish pond - very hot day

This what i came home to yesterday: Tanya reading to the neighbour's kids. Don't worry , I kicked everyone out right away. "Scram" I barked. ;)

The sticks near my left hand are a compost pen holding cow dung to fertilize pen. Normally it would be removed for seining as it catches everything.

Yesterday, Thursday, was play in the pond day.  It was 33 degrees.  Tanya got pretty woozy, but she manned the camera well. Had a good Rotary meeting, all issues sorted out nicely.  Big weight off our shoulders.  We REALLY pushed to finish the 8 springs while we were here.  As a consolation prize I do get to focus on fish ponds Rotary District Community Grant, which has been great.

 Today was 7 hours of paper work at the Golf Hotel.  That's Grace from RC Kakamega, we completed the first draft of our online Global Grant report, then met with treasurer Pillai and sorted out the finances. RCK has 501,000Ksh ($6000 CDN) to get 8 more springs built. We met with all 3 fundis (contractors) and got final, official, receipts.  I gave them Certificates of Appreciation that they can use for future client wooing.

Great news.  We are 45 min into a lightening rain storm.  Yahoo. Longest so far has been 15 minutes. Two of our ponds can really use the water- as can the whole area.  Our protected springs are receiving extra use as unprotected springs dry up.  This is the very driest time of year.

fistfulls of tadpoles- unfortunately we didnt take a pic of our first seine where we caught lots of frogs and tadpoles. I was teaching seining techniques and ridding pond of tadpoles- fish due next tuesday

This is Carolyne's pond (widowed mother of 5). That rock to the right is going to be tricky come harvest time. Its huge.

WAAAY easier to seine a fish pond than a fish pen on a 100'x100' steel ocean pen with tides and wind waves- WAAYY