So…I have a new thing.
Just getting started, very early days, but:
Mark and I spent several hours last week at this amazing fish store, researching; and another hour or so today, selecting the tank, the sand and gravel, the parts and pieces….I spent ALL THE MONEYS on all this equipment, and a few plants to get it started. And Mark spent even more hours setting it up at home here. It’s looking great so far; the water is a bit cloudy, but the filter will take care of that, we are assured.
Actual fish will come later, once the tank has cured and acclimatized to the space, once we know the plants are going to live (and we buy more plants), once everything settles. But! It is already sooooo cool. (And I even put the petrified wood that Shelly Rae gave me inside!)
I’ve been wanting pets. This will be both pets and a garden, without causing allergic reactions in Beloved Guests. 🙂 I’m very excited.
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In other news: we had brunch with Doselle & Miss G. this morning before they headed back home to the Land of Palm Trees and Sunshine. It was so good to see them this weekend.
They left us gifts, alas.
Terrible gifts.
Tomorrow, no really I mean it, I am going for a swim. This has been a weekend of utter decadence. Shameful.
But yummy! 🙂