Thanks so much everyone for all your kind words and well wishes. Gardening and this pond really are my salvation during the nice weather months, and I get "lost" out there each nice weather day, when I can. Knitting is my indoor salvation, and is always with me when I am on the go.
Mom went to see the cardio-thorasic surgeon last week who did Bill Clintons's quadruple bypass surgery, Barbara Walters valve replacement recently, and also surgery on Mayor Koch of NYC. Amazingly, my sister got mom an appointment with him rather quickly. He is an extremely nice, patient, and thorough man! He is supposed to get back to us, to tell us if she is a candidate for the clinical trial surgery where they replace valves doing it by catheterization rather than open heart surgery. She would not survive the latter unfortunately...
All that said... the ^%$#&#* HERON was at our pond yesterday morning!!!
My husband saw it fly past the familyroom window while he was watching tv in there and ran out on the deck to chase it off! I've been looking for the heron for a few weeks now, as this is the exact time of year that I started seeing it the past 2 years. When the weather improves, and I have the time, I will go out there and try stringing fish line across the surface, but that will mean that I won't be able to go into the pond after that to clean out dead lily pads, etc. #$^#@%& HERON!!!
