Happy Mithras Eve
I spent today doing the festive preparation of cleaning the aquarium filters and vacuuming fish gravel. We've welcomed a little school of tiger barbs to our piscean family. I'm happy to be able to do it. This year has been all about falling off that work-life balance beam and landing splat on the floor. Taking the unexpectedly generous number of holidays this season to chill and take care of home things, barely checking email. We're not entertaining or visiting, just being home to heal and save up some energy. The coming year will be intense.
We picked up a last minute Christmas tree yesterday and put it up, the first one in years. A random selection of lights and not many decorations, but I wanted to smell evergreen in the house. It's very pleasant right now, sitting around it with candles lit, by the glow of the laptop. L is producing a feast, unsurprisingly, and looks so sweet by the twinkling lights.
The new barbs with Angelfish in background looking skeptical, and the big tank with various other barbs in it.
I had been thinking of a school of Australian rainbows for something different, but we went to return a lightbulb at the local pet place and they were on sale. We end up keeping barbs because they are interesting and the go around the tank and do stuff. Angelfish are elegant when they aren't being momentarily savage, but they don't do much except turn their backs on us. At least the barbs think humans mean food and they ought to suck up to us when we look at them.
Perhaps on Boxing Day I will win the struggle to write some cards. Thank you to everyone who sent them to us -- we are thinking of you and wishing you happiness.
Enjoy the season of lights.
We picked up a last minute Christmas tree yesterday and put it up, the first one in years. A random selection of lights and not many decorations, but I wanted to smell evergreen in the house. It's very pleasant right now, sitting around it with candles lit, by the glow of the laptop. L is producing a feast, unsurprisingly, and looks so sweet by the twinkling lights.
The new barbs with Angelfish in background looking skeptical, and the big tank with various other barbs in it.
I had been thinking of a school of Australian rainbows for something different, but we went to return a lightbulb at the local pet place and they were on sale. We end up keeping barbs because they are interesting and the go around the tank and do stuff. Angelfish are elegant when they aren't being momentarily savage, but they don't do much except turn their backs on us. At least the barbs think humans mean food and they ought to suck up to us when we look at them.
Perhaps on Boxing Day I will win the struggle to write some cards. Thank you to everyone who sent them to us -- we are thinking of you and wishing you happiness.
Enjoy the season of lights.