Texas Gardening: Lessons learned while gardening in a drought..., 1 by sharondippity

sharondippity wrote:
Formerly Monay Pond ....then this was a month ago down bout 3 feet then............it has about 6 inches of water in it today and we have pumped in water from time to time. We are deciding the cost of electric to run the well pump is not worth saving the vegetation or the fish. The lily pads are laying on the bottom and and huge bass are seen struggling in what water they can find, some is deeper than others. The fishing birds and the hawks are loving it. It smells like death.

Summers before have seen low water but nothing like this......1 pond out of my 5 has enough water in it to sustain fish

And then in the midst of my whining, I think....drought, heat........at least I can go to Tom Thumb for food...Ya"ll pray for Africa, drought,, heat, famine, and war.......