{"id":1877,"date":"2011-11-04T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:18:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:18:28","slug":"walking-bottom-of-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2011\/11\/04\/walking-bottom-of-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking the Bottom of the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The drought has been with us for quite a while, and the pond has been dry much longer that it has been in my memory.  I took a walk down on the bed this afternoon.  The deep, deep cracks have even begun to weather down a little in places.  Even the plants that have grown up around the last remnant of the spring are curled up. <\/p>\n

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One interesting thing was the relics from previous years that were resting on top of the dried mud.  Someone, probably my son, has lost a number of golf-balls over the years.  And I think that’s the core of a baseball. There was also an old boot, and a broken fishing float, but I didn’t feel like recovering those.<\/p>\n

I suspect that there are many more interesting things down in the mud, if I cared to dig them up.  I know I’ve lost a few lures over the years.<\/p>\n

What I ought to do is build a dock while the water is gone, but I probably won’t get around to it.  I’d love to rent a mini-dozer and move some of those decades of mud to the upper pasture that has zero topsoil over the limestone.  I probably won’t get around to that either.<\/p>\n

The rains will come.  I’m confident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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