Sunday, April 01, 2007

My Molly had Babies

Well, the title is absolutely true, except that the Molly in question is one of my fish and not the redhead. I was very surprised to come home one day and find a couple dozen fry in the tank. I was expecting that they would just all get eaten by the other fish, and would thus not become a problem, but alas, they are all still alive and eating and growing. I think that the tank may be planted heavily enough and be big enough that they are not an easy snack. So now when they mature I am going to have to take them to one of the local pet stores and donate them, since my tank cannot take another 2 dozen fish.

Hugo caused us to take our first trip to the veterinarian last week. He came down with conjunctivitis (a cold, goopy eyes and a mild ear infection), so we took both cats in. The technicians at the lab saw Hugo through the window and pretty much everybody came over to ohh and ahh over him, giving a passing scratch on the head to Sammy. But at least it is consistent that everybody just thinks that Hugo is gorgeous and Sammy kind of gets lost in the shuffle.

Not much else has been happening here. It is getting warmer out again, which is nice, though the humidity of summer here should be really bad.

Anyway, that is about it. Let me just end by saying that if we attack Iran, we are totally insane. There are anti-Iran commercials being played on TV out here, and it is a little scary. I can deal with the blowhards on Faux News pounding their war drums, but it seems somehow different and scarier to see people buying commercial time on other channels for the same purpose.


The black Balloon Molly is the one that recently had the babies.











Hugo and Sammy pretty much behaving how they always are (well, when they are not asleep).