friend

We have a new pet in our household-Friend. He/she, whatever, is a new goldfish. Abby won a goldfish at the county fair when she was almost 2 years old. She and mike decided Goldie would be a great name so we had Goldie-but only for about 5 days. Then we got Goldie #2 (she was too young to figure out why Goldie #1 was floating on his back). I must say that as far as fish are concerned, Goldie Dos is the most hearty one I've ever known. Goldie has resided in a 2-3 year old's room for quite some time now. My favorite fish story happened when some of her boyfriends were over playing one morning. I won't name names. Their Mom walked into the kitchen and said to me," They're dippin' paint brushes (from the stampin' holy grail) into the fish tank and using it to paint on the wall; do you want me to stop them?" Need I really answer that. I live in a 1-girl house, of course I wanted it stopped. Over a year he's survived feats like this! His water has had paint brushes dipped into it, toys added to it for his playing pleasures, and probably even more interesting things that I don't know about. Now he has a Friend. We'll see if they survive this change. Mike and I are just hoping that the new Friend doesn't eat poor Goldie because Friend is at least twice as big as Goldie.

Photography lesson #327: fish DO NOT make great subjects. They just won't be still and they swim so fast that my new camera can't keep up. I know there's probably a setting that I just haven't played with yet, so here is the crummy picture of Goldie and Friend. Oh, and while I was making the picture Abby informed me that Friend is Goldie's mommy since she's bigger. Go figure!

By the way, don't you just love our pet names around here? Her favorite toys in the whole wide world are stuffed animal dogs and puppies. We counted not long ago and we're pushin' 20 of these fun, quiet pets. They have names like Snickers, Sniffles, Lamp,Toilet Paper, anything she happened to be looking at when we ask, "What's this one's name?" Too funny, she is!

Abby really wants a chinchilla. Yeah, a chinchilla, you heard correctly. I didn't even know what one was til' she announced this desire and I had to look it up. She knows all about them and promises it would make a great pet. She informed me that they're nocturnal, sleep all day, take dust baths, other pertinent info. Oh, and she told me that she'd put a diaper under the cage so he won't get his cage nasty with poop. I said, "Call your Memaw!" We had fun looking online at them and all the things you can buy to keep your chinchilla happy-I think a cat would be cheaper in the long run and way more fun than a caged animal...and plus we just got a baby sister, geez, isn't that better than a chinchilla? We'll keep you posted on the chinchilla front! Maybe we'd better just stick to the hearty goldfish duo for now. I'll just warn you not to be looking for any crummy chinchilla shots any time soon...