Water to ducks like!

Sometimes I surprise myself at how much of a genius I am. There I was sat on the toilet thinking about frogs, not my usual thoughts as I normally read a Terry Pratchett paperback while concentrating on paperwork, anyway from the privy window I can see the pond. This is currently alive with frogs, who always arrive in February, all in a mad frenzy to spawn. Masses of frogspawn crowds the edges of the pond while forggy who a courting goes goes mental in wrestling death matches with mates and foes. Now as our ducks and geese have just found the pond and have trashed it I was pleased the frogs decided to return. Their return means the ducks and geese have been banned from the pond but therein lies the problem. They are persistent little darlings and they only have to get in once to have the same effect on the new pondlife as the goats have on greenhouses full of tomatoes.

I sat thinking this through, if only there was a way of getting the frogspawn out and perhaps putting it in a safe place until it hatches and develops into real live frogs. Just some of it saved might help the frog population who as I watched was being reduced by one by the attention of one of our cats. If we had a tank big enough lots more would survive. Well we do have a tank big enough, the tank that used to hold 500 gallons of water until Ben dropped it on the Land Rover putting a teensy weensy hole at the 300 mark. The light bulb of inspiration flashed. Cut the tank in half and you have a huge instant pond for the ducks therefore the frogs survive, as long as the cats leave off.
So armed with a really sharp saw, a bent nail to make the cut along the dotted line mark and a first aid kit just in case I set about transforming the damaged tank into a superb pond with a corrugated steel diving board and breeze block escape platform. Tracey and her lovely Mum Jill helped with the final lift and move of the improvised pond and soon the temporary pump system was on over drive subtracting another 300 gallons from the well. As you can see the results of our efforts were very appreciated by the ducks and geese who took to it like ducks to water.