Goodbye fish, and thanks

We had the pond cleared out.  “Watch out for the fish,” we said.  There were no fish.  Some­time in the autumn they must have given up their fishy souls to the great aquar­ium in the sky — or pos­sibly ended their days in the beak of a great heron in the sky, or the paws of a small hungry cat.  I enjoyed count­ing them, but I’ve been advised not to acquire any more fish till the pond can be improved — more sun­light, more oxy­gen, more cir­cu­lat­ing water.  A solar powered water fea­ture is surely the answer.