We had a real arctic blast come down: leaves are still green, and it hit 19 last night, and will go lower tonight. As Jane says in her post, (with pix), we shut down the pump for the pond, for one thing to let the sunwarmed shallow water get to the depths, where the fish are.

I pulled the water hyacinth today: shame, but it's going to rot and be a problem. That left our poor cold-stuporous fish with no shade, and right now they are sleep-swimming: threatened or disturbed, they dart on...