Funniest Pond Tales

Funniest Pond Tales

Get ready for some gut-wrenching, laugh out loud hilarious pond tales from all over the world...Funniest Pond Tales - Half 1, May 2004(Continued from May Concern of PondStuff!)We had some hilarious,...
Get ready for some intestine-wrenching, snigger out loud hilarious pond stories from all around the world...
Funniest Pond Tales - Half 1, Could 2004
(Continued from Could Concern of PondStuff!)
We had some hilarious, truly gut wrenching, chuckle out-loud tales sent in by a few of you. Here we will spotlight a number of the funniest stories so that you can learn, and we'll submit ALL of the funniest pond tales despatched in on the web site (link under).
We had entries from all over (Inluding one all the way in which from THAILAND!) The competitors was fierce, and to be trustworthy - I had a really hard time deciding on one 'funniest' story. So, I will leave it as much as you. That's right - I'm asking everyone of you to 'vote' on your favourite 'funniest pond story'. Then we'll release the ends in every week or so...
However this is a quick rundown of our entries: cats, dogs, and bunnies (?) all taking the Nestea plunge right into the water, a hungry KOI nibbling in harmful territory,
a missing flip flop, an electrifying experience for grandma, enjoyable for the entire family, fish frape, and flying fish besides! There you may have it, these are the entries you can be voting on on the finish, so prepare for some very amusing pond stories!
First, let's begin with this very shaggy dog story about 'Smokey' - who apparently thinks he can walk on water. This was despatched in by Mike Lachance from Maryland:
Funny Pond Story #1
"I wish I had a photograph to share of this very true story however any ponder with cats has probably had the identical experience at a while or another. A number of years ago, when I used to be enjoying the second season of my first pond (I've now built 4 as I've moved round), one in all our cats, "Smokey", who was a natural hunter in her prime, saw a mockingbird alight on a lilly pad to get a drink of water. Well, previous "Smokester" slowly crept out from below some day lillies and made a spectacular soar with all 4 paws majestically carrying her like a flying squirrel, right for that intruding chicken.
It's not as if she had not already had a couple of encounters with the water but that day the feathered treat will need to have been an excessive amount of for her to move up. Nicely, both my wife and I were there to see her make a wonderful stomach flop into the pond.
Of course, the bird was out of the way in which in loads of time and I swear that that cat walked on her toes the 5 toes it took her to get out of the water! And of course, after eradicating herself from the water, in a really nonchalant method, proceeded to lift every leg, shake off the water and as a lot as say "I meant to try this, you recognize".
Smokey often spent time at the pond later, using her tail to attract the fish (she would put it within the water and swish it around and the fish would come as much as discover it. She by no means did catch one). She also liked to sit down at the waterfall and enjoy the water moving past her.
So that's my humorous pond story.
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Funny Pond Story #2
"Expensive all at McArthur,

Donna had a large koi pond in her yard that she devoted countless quantities of love and a focus to. As happens with most ponds, spring introduced some uninvited visitors...in this case frogs. One evening Donna was working on the pond, checking the cantankerous pump and filter system, and using her internet to skim out leaves and what not that had blown in.
My 80+ plus yr old grandmother was supervising the work and offering her professional opinion on how you can proceed. They were amazed at the number of frogs that had taken up residence, and not too joyful about it. Donna noticed a frog swimming on the far aspect of the pond that she needed to get out...one thing was not quite right about the way in which he was swimming, and she or he pointed him out to Grandma. "Mom, take a look at that frog swimming on his back!" Grandma was a bit skeptical...frogs doing the back stroke have been a phenomenon that she was unfamiliar with.
She advised that this misfit should be eliminated immediately. Don't want to give the other little froggies strange concepts. Donna made several attempts at scooping the miscreant up together with her net, but he was just out of reach. Only one factor left to do. Roll up your shorts and wade in after him. The reply to Mr. Frogs unusual swimming method grew to become painfully obvious as quickly as Donna reached his fast vacinity....a faulty under water mild had shorted and electrocuted him! Donna didn't need her electric rollers for a couple of days after that!"
Enecia Sabroff

Funny Pond Story #3
"Hi there-My husband not too long ago bought a beagle puppy, right now he was 8 weeks outdated. My husband also purchased two virtually, semi-tame rabbits to help practice the puppy to trace rabbits. At this time I only had one pond that was preformed 550 gallons, my husband put one of the rabbits out to platy with the pet, the rabbit was teasing the pet, operating slightly methods then leaping over his head, then the rabbit determined he didn't need to play anymore so he began to run from Bear (the pet), and he dove into the pond.


Humorous Pond Story #four
"A story to share...
Two years ago I began with the loopy thought of constructing a small pond with koi fishes. After a variety of working I lastly built it, and adorned it with all form of vegetation. Someday... mi female cat Manchita” went to the pond to examine this new construction. She went to the border, jumped on a flat stone and starter to drink water. To her massive shock one of many fishes , possibly considering that the white nostril of my cat was food, jumped out of the water, trying to eat it.. Are you able to imagine the shock of the cat ? I imagine that the fish was additionally fairly impressed with the expertise. My cat virtually fell into the pond ,. and from then on she never went across the pond once more. She used to observe the pond from my dorm, positioned in the second flooring and simply throughout the pond. Unfortunately I did not take a picture of this accident”. I am sending you a pictute of this first pond; in the meantime I did build one other, larger one. Sadly Manchita” just isn't around any more, she passed away a number of month ago, from old age..
This story happened in Valdivia, a city positioned in the south of Chile. In this country winter is approaching, with numerous leaves falling from the bushes an the crops in my pond preparing themselves to sleep for some time..."
Maria Fresard
Humorous Pond Story #5
"I have two ponds. An higher and decrease pond. The higher pond is fed by a waterfall with the supply being the decrease pond (pushed by a pump). The lower pond is fed by an overflow of the higher pond that flows underground for about 70 feet (12 in drain pipe). Final summer time I rescued some trout fingerlings from a seasonal stream going dry near my dwelling. I put them within the decrease pond. This spring I was sitting in my
kitchen and could see something flopping on my water fall. The trout had migrated up the overflow tube and were making an attempt to swim additional upstream through the water falls. No so funny however does present the strength of nature. Only a few weeks in the past, Egrets found the pond and the fish.
There may be nothing left to migrate at this time. Not so funny but does an
Egret taste something like a turkey when cooked?"
Tom Gegenheimer
Funny Pond Story #6
"Now we have solely had a pond for a short time.. particulars will be seen at http:/ /smithgarden/
The joke must embrace the workmen (in Thailand) who took zero safety precautions when establishing the pond.
Watching guys shovelling concrete from a lorry and spreading it throughout the bottom of the pond.. when the footwear they'd was simply 'flip-flops' resulted in great entertainment... particularly when. several times, the flip flops got here off and were misplaced within the cement someplace (ultimately found whereas they walked round naked footed)... pictures at
http:/ /smithgarden/photographs/giant/
http:/ /smithgarden/photos/giant/
http:/ /smithgarden/pictures/giant/
Surprisingly it was solely the fellows... the women laborers all wore Wellington boots... maybe this displays on which of the sexes is basically probably the most smart?"
Regards,
Chris
Funny Pond Story #7
"I am constructing a pond presently and I used to be within the process of constructing a waterfall in the corner of a fence. The waterfall is about three feet high and seven ft broad. I believed I used to be ending up the waterfall with some flat rock on the very high. So I straddeled the
waterfall with my knees on the second ledge and set the flat rock on prime. After I did this the whole waterfall fell down as a result of I construct it on blocks and not a pile of dirt.
When it fell one huge rock caught my foot and I slide down the autumn and fell backwards
into the pond going all the way below and had a couple of large rocks come down on me. Meanwhile my wife is laughing her butt of at me and I requested her to assist me out she slipped on the flat wet rock that surounded the ponds edge and half way fell in with me.
Now my two boys have been playing in the yard they are 5 and 3 and saw this occur to us they usually thought it was time to obtained swimming so guess who jumped into the pond with us, the boys. Nothing like having the whole family in on the pond. We laughed for awhile however then I needed to rebuild the whole waterfall once more and this time I put the highest rocks on from the facet."
Robert H Coppa Jr.
Funny Pond Story #eight
I made a decision 300 gallons would be perfect. I did all the mathematics and spent an amazing
deal of time working with more experienced ponders. By some means when it was all
mentioned and carried out my little 300 gallon pond ended up being 810 gallons and are available
to search out out it was yet another one among my mathematical errors. Guess I should
have paid extra attention in that college level math class required for my
Associates, proper.
We acquired the pond all up and running but because of the miscalculation we now
wanted a bigger pump to feed the waterfall so I went to our native water
backyard supplier and asked which one to get. Price range was a priority so it was
beneficial that we acquired a ¾ HP submersible pump that cycles forty four gallons a
minuet. It was solely $70 in comparison to the $a hundred and seventy one that was its
comparative various so… we went that route. $70 dollars later we had a
working pond with an attractive waterfall! I used to be so excited I might hardly
wait to get fish.
Once more budget was a priority so we went to the native pet store and picked up $50 dollars value of fish, about eight fish. four giant gold Koi, some yellow and a blue Koi. The colour excited me so much I never considered what would happen when the fish grew to become comfy of their new home. The swam around investigating for a day or two then began to come back up missing. I had it figured that they have been hiding or that a cat was getting fed to properly however I never figured it was one thing I may have accomplished. It was the pump… the consumption valve on the pump was to giant and the fish had been
getting to close and being sucked into the pump though the motor pushed down
the hose into my waterfall.
While this isn't a shaggy dog story, I will need to have cried for 3 days, I needed to
share it because this is the one factor I never read anything about in all
the 6 weeks of reading I did on the net. I can chuckle about it now with a
‘I can not consider I did not consider that' thought.
Had I recognized this was possible I'd have carried out something to prevent it by
caging in my pump or spending the extra $100 to get the right kind of pump.
Hope someone else can save a Koi by my blending experience.
Thanks
,
New to ponds and already considering of creating it fish free!"
Sheri Furr
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