RIP KOI

Hey Pals,
Can you believe the sun is out today?? and it's fairly warm here? except for the strong winds, but it's much better then having constant rain. Some of our flowers are blooming now so we took some pictures:
Mama likes these dwarf tulips because they have purple stripes on the leaves & the tulips come up each year here in Iowa.
These are some wild flowers:
This is one of our Nanking Cherry bushes. We have tons of these on our land.
Well, we finally have our koi list. We hate telling you which koi have died or are missing, but we wanted you to know since we name many of them after all of you our pals.

Here is the RIP list, these are koi that we have found dead:

Tanaka
Liberty
Asta NY
Maggie
Charlotte

This is the MIA list, koi that we're sure are missing, probably taken by mink or those darn blue herons:

Bandit
Sherman

This is the ???? we don't know list. We haven't seen these koi yet this spring, haven't found them dead so they could just be hiding yet. As the water warms up, more of the smaller koi start to come up to the top of the water. So that could be the case with these.

Luckie
Tosca
GirlGirl
Scruffy
Precious
Stanley
Asta DU

We also have one very sick koi, it's ICE T, Mama's most favorite big female koi. She has been hiding for a week now, so Mama's very worried that she will die. So please cross your paws for Ice T to recover. Here is her pic:
We're anxious for new babies to be born now this year. The koi will start mating very soon. We already have 20 pals signed up to have a baby koi named after them this year. So if you want one named after YOU, please let us know so we can add you to the list.

Here are some pictures we took today of the koi while they were eating:

This is BenBen:
This is Huskee Boy towards the bottom with Mikata above him:



We hope everyone is having a great weekend!
Wirey Hugs!
Butchy & Snickers