The Little Pond of Life

Good Morning,

This little pond is the reason our garden produced so many vegetables this year.


Here in this part of Georgia we are still in a major drought and it was extremely dry all summer. If not for having that small pond of water and this Gorman-Rupp Self-Priming pump with a Intek Briggs & Stratton motor, the garden would have dried completely up.

We bought the pump about 4 years ago at Northern Tool Co. and we haven't had a bit of trouble with it.

We irrigated the garden frequently and the pond maintained it's water level throughout the summer.(Thank goodness!)


The little pond of water was already here on the land when we bought it. There was an old home site nearby so I suspect it was one of their watering sources. The house was torn down in the 1930's though.
The pond is just down hill from our barn. The old home site was just behind where out barn sits and was just one of several old homesites on this 100 acres.


I could see Jack as I walked up hill from the pond. So... I called out to him.
He gives me this look like "you talking to me".


Jack had a dirt bath in mind. You can see how dusty it still is here. We haven't had a good rain in months.


Curiosity gets the best of Jack and he comes on over.


He makes like he doesn't like to be petted, but he does.


Jack can be so mule headed sometimes.

Have a great day.