Fish buddies and twinkly yarn..
Jan. 25th, 2007 03:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
artemis42When we set up the tank and got the fish it looked like this:
Now, after many months, the plants have grown, especially the amazon sword plant in the back left corner, and the fish are enormous, and super cute. Fish kisses on fingertips are infinitely cooler when the fish are finally larger than your thumb.
And, as promised, here's a picture of the first attempt at a 'Green fairy' yarn, cuddling with my bottle of Absente. Super soft, sparkly and subtly two-toned, after the color of the liquor both before and after water is added.
Got some decent journal writing done this evening as well, something I've neglected for a month or so. Even though I update my LJ pretty often, I still find it important to write on paper, by hand, and to keep those writings private. Not that what I write here is less important, but I write here for an audience, and my paper journal is for me, and the voice it has lives in a different place in my head.
I really enjoy being able to mix custom colors with the different dyed rovings I have. It feels almost like mixing paint colors, and makes me wish it were warmer, so I could take the easel out on the patio. Still too cold, though. I'd probably also have songbirds chipping at me to get out of their dining room. Between the suet cake, the seed feeder and the hummingbird feeder, we have a happy flock of tiny wings fluttering by all afternoon, and when I sit still in the doorway, they ignore me and hop about almost to my knees in the search for fallen seeds. Makes me smile, and their familiarity makes me miss my own feathered beasts a tiny bit less.
Off to bed with me.
Later.
-Me.
Now, after many months, the plants have grown, especially the amazon sword plant in the back left corner, and the fish are enormous, and super cute. Fish kisses on fingertips are infinitely cooler when the fish are finally larger than your thumb.
And, as promised, here's a picture of the first attempt at a 'Green fairy' yarn, cuddling with my bottle of Absente. Super soft, sparkly and subtly two-toned, after the color of the liquor both before and after water is added.
Got some decent journal writing done this evening as well, something I've neglected for a month or so. Even though I update my LJ pretty often, I still find it important to write on paper, by hand, and to keep those writings private. Not that what I write here is less important, but I write here for an audience, and my paper journal is for me, and the voice it has lives in a different place in my head.
I really enjoy being able to mix custom colors with the different dyed rovings I have. It feels almost like mixing paint colors, and makes me wish it were warmer, so I could take the easel out on the patio. Still too cold, though. I'd probably also have songbirds chipping at me to get out of their dining room. Between the suet cake, the seed feeder and the hummingbird feeder, we have a happy flock of tiny wings fluttering by all afternoon, and when I sit still in the doorway, they ignore me and hop about almost to my knees in the search for fallen seeds. Makes me smile, and their familiarity makes me miss my own feathered beasts a tiny bit less.
Off to bed with me.
Later.
-Me.
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Date: 2007-01-26 04:18 am (UTC)Also, I suggest buying a sucker loach of some kind. When they grow up, they are very entertaining. We had one named Oreck, and he liked to suck on the marbles on the tank floor and roll them high speed at the glass sides. It sounded like heater pipes! And he lived for years and did a bang-up job of keeping the tank free of gunk.
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Date: 2007-01-26 04:44 am (UTC)So.. I bought a new spotted plecos.. but since he likes to hide among plants and in the ruin, alas.. no picture.
Henri loves him, as he is definitely weird looking, and he giggles if he catches him slurping on the surface of the glass. I find the pretty fantails to be much more attractive, but the plecos is cool. :)
-Me.