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).

Kittens Settling In

Hi there all. Not much has really been going on here. The kittens have settled in nicely and are total sweethearts. They spend quite a lot of time jumping on each other's heads and chasing one another around the apartment, then Sammy collapses in a puddle of orange and white fur in one of our laps and Hugo curls up in a ball nearby.

The only real excitement was that our cat tree arrived on Tuesday, and they both seem to love it. Yesterday we went out and bought a cat carrier for them in case there is a fire alarm (which there hadn't been in a long time), and at 5am the alarm went off, so it was very good timing. Needless to say, neither of them were very happy with the alarm in the hallway. But they are very good in carriers since they have spent a lot of time in them going to adoption fairs in the past. So we stood outside at 5am in the cold until the fire department decided to let us back in. It was a very nice way to start the morning.

Additions to the Family

Well, it has been ages since I put anything up here, but the hope now is to use it to post some pictures of life out here, and to start that, here are some pictures of the newest additions to our family out here... Sammy and Hugo. Sammy is orange and white and Hugo is a dark, smoky Maine Coon mix, though it is expected that his colors will change, as the smokiness has been increasing over the last month. They are both about 5 months old and sweet as can be. We adopted them from a local rescue organization that gets them from local high-kill shelters.