Olive Barn resumed shipping on Monday Sept 15th. We’ve also shipped orders for Southern Bulbs this week too. Our seasonal staff has been working all week packaging their bulbs and getting them ready for shipment.
Hurricane Ike did extensive damage to the infrastructure of our area. Still over 1.2 million customers have no power. Day 6 and I still do not have power at my home. Our neighbors have banned together to help make it easier. I have a Koi pond with seven fish. On day five, it was getting critical. These fish need aeration and filtration to survive in small ponds. I was pouring water in buckets over the waterfall several times a day, running a small battery powered aerator, and even adding a 1/2 cup of Hydrogen Peroxide to the 700 gallon pond water twice a day. That tip came from Justin Bristol, owner of Pond Pros of Houston. He is an expert on ponds and caring for koi. Thank you, Justin! Luckily on day five my neighbors, two doors down, bought a generator and ran a series of four orange power cord extensions across two front lawns into my backyard to run my pond pump. Thank you Judy and Jesse!
Big Delores (my large yellow Ogon Koi) lives on! I have had her for 13 years and she has survived many near death experiences; two accidental pond emptyings and one 2 day power outage a few years ago. Why is her name Big Delores? It is from one of my favorite movies, Hope Floats. She is the biggest fish in the pond. Even my very large Black Lab, Kohl is afraid of her. In times like these, you just have to let Hope float up.
