Catfish and potatos...

[summer_jackel]

Delightful treat, I got to see alexandria24 yesterday, on vacation in the city with her mom. Our visit was very fun, if short. We took a bay tour and had a great dinner. Alex is great, and I look forward to seeing her in Vegas!

I saw the banjo cat yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, you may not think that seeing your own pet fish in your own aquarium should be that big a deal. But. I put that fish in back in early February and have not seen her since, and I watch that tank a lot. It was a very exciting moment. I was positively gleeful. She was looking for food a few inches from her lair, eating, very unconcerned about the other fish. Now I know where her lair *is* I will watch it extra carefully when I feed them.

Banjo cats are fascinating and just plain wierd lookin'.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/aspredin/bunoceph/25_f.php

All the other fish are doing great. All of the guys I put in there from December to February (the banjo is my last fish for the tank) have at least doubled in size, tripled in the case of the gouramis, which may be close to full grown. Aside from my monster of a pl*co, Comfort the pictus cat is my favorite, an active but shy little fish with the loooooooong whiskers who has made herself what looks like a very cozy, yet visible den in some rocks. When I feed, she rushes out to grab some very fast, and it is cute!!! She sometimes takes one of the sinking algae wafers into her den to nibble on at her leisure. Those wafers are popular; the silver dollars sometimes swim around with them in their mouths, taking bites out of them like cookies. Fish are *cute*. No, really.

The little 2-gallon that I had through law school, which has traditionally held three neons, now holds three neons and a very pretty blue and red male betta. They seem happy, too. The betta's gorgeous and more active than some.

The weather has turned seriously sunny and lovely, and I have taken to long, quiet walks in the woods behind my home. The garden is doing great. I blatantly poached some feral borage from the abandoned school garden behind my office, and all six plants are not only alive (they were touch and go for awhile...a word to the wise, borage shocks when you transplant it) but now in bloom. I look forward to salad borage soon! The stuff is, btw, a blue-purple flower that tastes like cucumber and is *yummy*. Thank you, lythir , for cluing me in.

And hand-holding me through the process of growing potatos, which I mulched this afternoon with some nice decomposing sawdust from the chicken coop. I planted a bag of 'em that I didn't cook soon enough, just for the heck of it, and...they are now alive and thrivin', much to my shock and bewilderment. I will be so amused if I can extract edible potatos from a fuschia and native plants garden in the middle of a redwood forest.

Tonight I've lots of fun planned...going to go see Copper Wimmin in Gurneville. I may go to the Health and Harmony fair tomorrow for the purpose of seeing them perform there as well, and to go to the fair, which is just plain fun.

Weekend of goodness.

Comments

[demonvaska.livejournal.com]

Mmm, fried catfish....oh, er sorry. *cough*

[doppleganger55.livejournal.com]

Oh a gardner I see? Heh that's nice. I've planted some potatoes too but I doubt I'll get anything edible. I must look into this borage plant you are talking about. Sounds like it would be interesting to grow.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Borage is just so cool, and apparently grows like a weed when it gets going. it's lovely in salads. Do you garden?

If I get potatos, I assure you that the event will be mentioned in this journal!!

[doppleganger55.livejournal.com]

A little it's mostly my mom who is really into it. We have tomatoes, peppers (hot too), cucumbers, zucchini, eggplant, and we are getting the last of the strawberries. Our back yard is full of flowers as well.

meyah!

[mooncatx.livejournal.com]

Jealous! Hug Alex for me *^_^*

All plants I touch on purpose die. The only thing I can get to multiply is cats... sigh. And I don't NEED more cats! I have the sinking suspicion that I may be having kittens soon *~_~*

Raining... fierce rain fall lately, yeeks! Envy your good weather!

If you get potatos, make some yummy sourcream mashed potatoes, mmmm!!!

*hugs*
MooncatX

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

I did. :)

And are you expecting kittens, or is one of your queens? ;) *ducks brick*

The rain will make the plants grow, my dear. And I thought I had a black thumb too, 'til my current garden decided to be all happy. So much of it has to do with selecting the plants that will work in your biome. I grow *lots* of ferns and fuschias.

mmmm potatos!!!!! Some of 'em purple ones, even! I'm not fond of sour cream, but butter 'n garlic mashed...mmmmmmmm! *prrr*

[shoka.livejournal.com]

*laugh!* I know exectly how it is with your banjo cat. I have a spotted raphael which I've seen maybe 4 times in 3 years and a spotted pekolita which I've seen about 6 times in 3 years. I worry on and off that they may have died, but have never seen bodies.

I know they were both alive earlier this year, as we found'em wedged in driftwood when the big tank sprung its leak. But both vanished again as soon as they were relocated to the new tank.