6.12.09 Friday

today Mr S and his Dad started working with a new project. They started digging at the rental property and then will finish up at our house. While they were our digging at the other house I sat up shop in the pond area and watched the fish in the pond

6.2.09 Tuesday

YEAH!!!! they live after all- Today's POTD is the fish that are now living in our pond.

went out to feed them tonight and soon after the food hit the water there they were---finally!!! some strange animal that was lurking in the pond didn't get them after all!!! actually these are not really good photos I was just glad to see something alive in there!

6.1.09 Monday

I think there is something in the pond eating my fish. We put those 20 in there on Friday and they have not been seen since..... I think there is some mysterious something down there eating them. Mr S declares that they have to still be there ---because there is no place they can go.... meanwhile there are now 8 Lilly leaves growing up

I started back to the Y with a vengeance today--- vow to go 4 days this week.... still have not lost ANY weight again

Today's POTD is of the clouds coming over the trees.... It didn't rain today and the clouds were beautiful.

5.29.09 Friday

OK--since it seems all of the other fish have departed existence so today I ventured to Petsmart after work and purchased 20 little comet goldfish and three little plants. (the comets were a whopping 12 cents each) We shall see if they live. They are cute little things---only about 1 inch long each gold, white and brown coloration

5.28.09 Thursday

today's POTD is our little Dachshund, Mo. He is such a great little dog and a typical dachshund. i love this quote H. L. Mencken said that "A dachshund is a half-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long,"

anyway--I don't know if you have ever sen the Petsmart commercial with the Dachshund and his long Loofa dog toy named BoBo. Well, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3FEM-pPfBQ) our little Mo loves BoBo too. When i was in the Petsmart yesterday they had BoBo's on clearance. ...and he got a coupon for $4 off since this is his birth month---BoBo's are usually $6.99 each and they had them 1/2 price.......so Mo got 3 new BoBo's for his Birthday(10th) . Today he has played all afternoon with BoBo-- he really only wants to play with it when I am home and he just tears the stuffing out and wants to destroy the squeaker LOL

thus the POTD:---and please, please notice the cat toys and litter box in the second picture of the hallway---we have a lot of pets!

Edited to add---bad news. when I got home tonight Mr S greeted me with the bad news that at least one of the new fish did not survive---was doing the side stroke and half his tail was gone---wish I knew what got him...We cant tell for sure how many of the seven are left--but know one is gone for sure

5.27.09 Wednesday

So I went back to the Y for the first time since vacation---worked out for one hour--the instructor never showed up.

Then after that I ran to Petsmart to get some fish and plants for the new pond. The POTD is not too great but i got 7 fish (red mouth minnows--goldfish LOL), a snail and 4 water plants. There was no indication of what the plants really were or info on them. So I picked out the 3 I thought most attractive (I got 2 of one kind) and wrote down the names so I could look them up when I got home. One of them turns out to be sweet flag (a kinda iris looking thing) which is something I wanted to get anyway---so now we have 7 fish---waiting to see how the 12 cent each fish do before we put the big fish out there, 6 plants and a snail (gosh just about forgot the pollywog's and the mosquito larvae--which is what the fish are supposed to eat).