Tuesday, June 03, 2008

back to blaby


well, it's a good thing i have you people. there were so many good ideas for what blaby meant, i've forgotten all about it's LA roots and given it new meaning in my mind. so i changed it back. blaby it is.
if i'd of placed bets on which of our fish would die first, i would have bet on mac. he was swimming upside down a few weeks ago and i thought then he wasn't long for this world. he's also had a few 'out of bowl' experiences, including one that was very close to an open drain.
but i'd of been wrong. cheese got the flush last week while we were gone. it was death by shrimp flakes we think because tayloe said he gorged one night and then was belly up the next day. shrimp flakes will do that to ya.
i was moderately devastated because all week t2 had been talking about him. every fish is named cheese and i still get such a kick out of hearing him say it.
so i asked tayloe to try to replace him before we got home. not for the kid so much, you understand. for me.
and he did replace him. with three minnows. river minnows. only one died today so we're down to two river minnows. and mac. and to help improve their chances for survival, we added an air bubble maker (i'm brain dead -- what are those things called?)
little tayloe and i changed their water today. i put them in a tupperware bowl on the counter, which happened to be next to the dog's bowl.
i was washing rocks and tayloe was making a mess when we both heard a SPLUSH, PING, PING, PING. i looked over and minnow no. 2 had jumped from the tupperware bowl into the dog bowl. there he was, flipping around in some purina crumbs.
dumb fish.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now I KNOW you are a creative soul...but I honestly thought "Blaby" was just a type and you had said, with a slight shrug of your shoulders, "oh well" and let it be.....
auntie

Anonymous said...

Make that "typo"....
a. c.

Anonymous said...

You are sooo cracking me up! Not only do I totally agree with the annoying things ppl say when they see a preggars in the summer (don't forget my favorite "What?! You're not due until august? You look ready right now!) But the fish story is just fabulous- I can just see Tayloe walking in with minnows and that wonderful "what's the problem?" expression of his...hahaha
CL

Anonymous said...

Jamie says he wants to know if you still have that compost/fertilizer pile that y'all threw the dead rooster on a few years back? You may be needing it again... but hey, those were some freakin huge tomatoes huh?

Anonymous said...

RIP Cheese
-Aunt Mary