The Pond

It is pleasant to sit by the pond, which is nicely full from recent rains, and watch our backyard friends come to drink, bathe, or swim. Visitors include chipmunks, squirrels, dragonflies, many kinds of birds, and the odd frog or toad. Amazingly, only one child has ever fallen in. After seeing he was wet and shocked, but fine, his mother laughed her butt off. Of course the male child "meant to do that".
Despite the occasional cocktail hour weeding around the drink (pun intended) session, and precarious maneuvers to fiddle around with pump maintenance, as of yet, no adults have taken the plunge. I of course pray that the camera is near at hand when someone finally does.