Finding joy in the everyday

Ronald the Salmon-tailed Catfish just after he was moved into his new home - not happy Dear friends, I thought I would give you an update on the fish following on from a story I wrote the other day. In the previous story I told you how Ronald the salmon-tailed catfish had eaten one of the other fish, or so we believed. I feel terrible—why, you may ask? On Saturday I was relaxing in my armchair and something caught my eye—I noticed movement at the entrance of our very large conch shell.  I called out to my husband in what he described as a "hysterical yell"!  He came, he looked and he agreed that a fish was most certainly stuck in the shell. It was our missing fish. No horrible acts of cannibalism had occurred at all. Now, it was clear that Miss Fish was stuck in the shell and had been there for the entire week. Dear husband lifted up the shell and gave it a shake. Nothing happened. He grabs a towel and hammer and we decide to break the shell. ...

Roy - Photography by Joluise As I mentioned in my last post, we are now proud owners of fish . . . . not really by choose, inherited when our son moved out of home. We never planned to keep them, then my DH had the bright idea " why don't we keep them, they are very nice fish, very friendly " . . . and as the saying goes "the rest in history" However when our son left, he left us with 5 fish (all large fish, not those little tiny things).  And now we are down to 2 fish.  The first 2 died from unknown causes . . . we don't think it was our fault. That is what we tell ourselves.  It makes us feel much better and we can sleep at night. But the last death is all very tragic.  On Friday night DH fed his 3 fish and all seemed well in the fish tank, quite harmonise. However when I went and opened the blinds on Saturday morning (no, the tank doesn't have blinds, the room does!!) I noticed only 2 fish in the tank (Roy - a Green Heros Severus...