Made a big pot of chili today, and have spent the evening (I’m not done yet) spring-cleaning my fish tank. I’m doing a really thorough job too, scrubbing every piece of gravel with a little tiny brush.

Just kidding. *grin* It is heavily infested with hairlike green algae though, and since my fish won’t eat the stuff I must make some effort to control it myself or else it’ll choke out everything else in the tank. It’s a 55gal freshwater tank, with a bunch of plants I can’t at this moment remember the names of, half a dozen pristella tetras, four neon tetras, four khuli loaches and one big lonely angelfish.

I love animals; and not in a big-eyed puppy calendar kind of way. I feel closer to the divine when observing the animals around me, both wild and domestic, than at any other time. I could not imagine living without companions of other species, nor would I dream of raising my children without them. I wish I could have many more beasties in my menagerie and I sincerely hope that when the kids are old enough to help take care of them I will - but don’t tell my husband this, hehehe! He thinks we permanently downsized my menagerie when we had kids.