Sewing

I'm quite proud of myself, I was able to hem a pair of pants all by myself. Even on the sewing machine I inherited from a loving Grams. Sadly I did break 2 needles in the process and it only took me about two and a half weeks.

BUT I am learning how to use the machine. Swapping out needles, thread, bobbings. Not to mention threading the machine.

Yay for me!!

Fish Naming

So, I am a horrible namer of things. I'm desperately in need of help with naming our fish. We have 4 koi that would love to have names and numerous goldfish. Out of the koi, we have 1 larger one that is white with orange spots, but not really round spots over it. Then we have 3 smaller fish, one is kinda silver, another white, and the last is a light yellow.

My thought of a name for the light yellow is banana, because banana's are yellow too!! See why I desperately need the help??

Seriously any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Oh, on a sad note, I think Old Harold (one of our goldfish) died. I don't think he died, he did die, its just his name I think is Old Harold...it was one our friends named and I'm just as horrible as remembering names as coming up with them. But I think I now know what it is the fish have been dying of. Its a disease called Dropsy, or so I think.

Anywho, before I start a novel I'll end since I really truly need help with the naming of our koi as I think they will be the ones that are going to live through the winter. At least I hope they all live, but I think I'll have a better luck and chance with our koi.

Pictures of Fishies!!

Attempt at another slideshow with comments trying to explain our fish. To view the comments there is a small littel notepad looking picture in the bottom left corner that you click on. I haven't figured out how to have that show all the time...sorry!

Fish Updates

So sadly since my last fish update we have had a lot of goldfish die. Just today Gimpy died...I kinda figured he would as he lost his tail and some of his side fins. How they were lost I'm not sure if it was fin rot or if some of the other fish became hungry for fish. Earlier in the week we lost the other fish we quarantined as he didn't swim to healthy.

How would a fish swim healthy you ask, easy answer. He actually swims!! Not stay on the bottom of the pond or stay hidden under the rocks, but swim. Oh and have an appetite for food would help too.

But back to the influx of death in the pond...the day prior we lost two fish that were just floating in the pond, and the day prior to that (last week sometime now) I had also found another dead one.

Seriously, death loved my house this last 5 to 8 days. Hopefully he has had enough fun and will let the remainder fish live.

On the brighter note...we have koi in our pond!!! Last Saturday we bought 2 medium sized koi, one I've named Angel, the other has been named Old Yeller, but I'm not positive if that name is a keeper as we've also called him Goldie. Which he's a mixture of Gold, black, yellow. Angel is a pure white...also nicknamed Whitey. Since then I have bought additional Koi, another medium sized one, that is what Angel & Old Yeller is, and 3 smaller ones that are about the same size of our goldfish.

Oh, and I bought another water lilly! We're hoping that with the large sized fish that they might actually last through the winter as our plan is to keep them in the pond all winter. Did you know fish hibernate? Apparently they do! Who would have guessed.

I've attempted taking pictures of them, the 4 I bought on Tuesday I took pictures of them still in their bag before I put them in the pond, the others I've attempted to catch them while in the pond. But once I find my cord that connects my camera with the computer I'll upload the pictures. Its kinda cool!! The koi seem to give more life to the goldfish, or at least move them about more.

On a side note, I don't know if I've mentioned this before or not so forgive if I have. Hubby informed me how funny I am, if I'm having a rotten day all he has to do to cheer me up some is buy me a fish...even the cheapo 26 cent ones work. They seriously just make me smile and giddy. Kinda odd but quirky.

Another quirky thing is we will spend hours, okay maybe not hours but a good 30 minutes or more just watching the fish/pond and sitting in our swing. Somedays I think we're supposed to be old farts because its kinda how we behave. Really we're so happy just to sit in the front yard and watch our quirky fish.

So its kinda late and this is turning into a novel so I'll stop for now and hopefully later this week I'll get the pictures added. If not I'll keep ranting about the quirks we're developing since becoming fish owners.

Attempting to be crafty

I'm so proud of myself, I'm attempting to sew! Sadly I've already broken a needle in the machine so I've learned to replace the needle...how to understand parts of the machine, and I can hem my pants now!! I do have to thank Grams for the machine!! Without it I'd never be doing this on my own...always went to my Mams.

Mind you this is after I changed our drain in the pond...the drain sits higher up so our lil fishies can swim on our shelves as the water is higher than 2 inches now!!

Look at me...being a little homemaker...too bad I'm supposed to be working while I'm doing this. Oh well, one day I'll be able to juggle everything. To bad I haven't figured how to plan dinner while I'm home.

The Piano by Aiddon Gibbons

I love this!! Not just for the music either...its just so sweet and I just don't get tired of listening to it. Going on my second day too and I still love it!

Fishies

Today is yet again a sad day for fishies...I've been expecting this to happen for the last couple of days but I couldn't help but hope little whitey would pull through. It turned out that Whitey had something called "ick" and we just didn't get him treated fast enough. When I checked on him this afternoon he was stuck to the pump and looked a little bloated. Sadly he is not the only one who has this horrible "ick". I'm hoping that we will be able to have the pond treated in time to save the others. With luck things will work out and we won't have too many more fish kick the watery grave.

On a brighter note...we have plants in our pond!! We bought two water lily pads, one in the large pond and one in the wee pond. We also have another type of lily that produces flowers in the summer but otherwise looks like really long grass...one plant will have a black purplish flower while the other does red, and we have a small tree type plant that also sits in the large pond.

blarg

For some reason I have been having a hard time with my neighbors. I don't know why but lately it feels like I just don't fit in and there is nothing I can do to resolve it. I even try to be social which is totally against my grain!!

But alas, why I care now what my neighbors think of me I do not know. One day I'll be back to my old self with the "who cares" attitude.

Until then I'll have my crying spurts.

Sad day for fishies

So last weekend we bought 8 goldfish Friday,no the picture is not our goldfish...just one I found online. Then Saturday we decided we didn't have enough...you couldn't find them...so we bought another 20. Bringing our grand total of fishies to 28.

Today I thought I'd feed them in the morning and see how they are doing, but sadly we lost one of our fish...he was just lying there on the bottom of the pond right in the middle, where none of our fish really stay. They'll dart through the middle but they don't just float there. I even netted him to see if he'd move or squirm...you know try to get away. But to no avail. So his new home resides in the bottom of our garbage can.

We'll see what this week brings to the fish...Let the trials continue!