Everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives!

[jwaneeta]

When I finally got my pond clean and treated I was so stoked I ran out to the Petsmart at 8pm and bought goldfish. Hardy goldfish, 50 cents a fin, five in a bag. They don't even keep these poor hardworking mutts on the floor at PS; the (very nice, helpful and obviously fishophile) guy went into the back room and brought them out to me in a baggie.

With sad predictability, I felt a warm rush of affection when he handed me the bag, even though I knew rationally that although I'd dredged and treated my pond I no clue what I was doing, and that they would all probably die.

But!

We have now passed the critical 48 hour mark, and all five goldfish still live. I can't tell you how absurdly happy that makes me. Woundingly, they fear me and race to the deep end when I appear (as if I were an evildoer! Me, The Bearer of Fishflakes! The Notcoming Storm!) but I can watch them from the deck and I have seen them eat and stuff.

I'm so enraptured with this crazy house and its crazy gardens and crazy pond. I would have taken photos but I was working until well after dark. I wish I could capture the beauty of the flowers the previous owner planted: he was a bit bugfuck, at the end, but damn, did he know how to garden.

Fish! I have fish! ACTUAL FISH THAT ARE NOT DEAD OMG

Comments

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

OMGWOOT!!!

I'd love to see pics sometime.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

I'll take pics tomorrow. Uploading them to LJ is another story, but I'll try. These flowers are so lovely.

[rahirah]

Hurrah! Are these the kind that grow into huge monster carp?

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Indeed, they are the indestructible mutt goldfish that grow into carp whales, practically, if one doesn't burst their bellies with overfeeding or let the pond freeze over.

And one of them is white! With spots! He's the loner. I love my sturdy goldfish so very much. :D

You'd be proud of me, Barb: I've been cutting down deadwood and obsessively placing throwing cedar mulch for three days. Gardening is a sort of heaven.

[cranberryink.livejournal.com]

Woo! Live fish are so gratifying. I'd love to see some pics of all your efforts. :)

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

I will absolutely try.

(In fact, I think I'll try to upload something now, while I have a spare minute. I forsee a conversation with LJ support, sigh.)

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Whee!

FISHIES!

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

They are frisky fishies, at least when I am not by. I can see them frollicking from my balcony, the creatures. :D

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Yay for goldfish that are not dead! Yay, I say! Don't worry that they yet fear you, for fish have tiny little brains. Soon, though, I'm sure they will associate you with flakes of fishfoody goodness and will race to you eagerly, big fishy mouths gaping widely.

I look forward to your pictures. :)

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

I LOVE them for not going belly up. All glory to the sturdy unkillable goldfish. Long may they wave.

It's all glorious and sunny today, so I'm going to snap a few pics with my poor cheapjack camera. At least the colors will be fairly true -- I've got some frilly tulips, with stripes, and the birch tree is leafy.