Abalone! You're just being shellfish!

[captainsblog]

Puttery day as offdays go. Wrote a little, read a little, did cardio, mowed the back forty, set foot in one store (wine, duh).  One task remained after Eleanor got home from her day at the store: bring in the little goldfish which occupies the frog pot in the back yard (which I know Eleanor has posted a picture of but which I can't find). It's fixing to get pretty chilly out there at night starting perhaps as soon as tonight, and previous years' tenants had frozen to death out there, so we resolved to move the one remaining beastie inside.

Big pot, little fish.  Also, plenty of aquatic plants in there, plus a heavy-duty mounting of the ornamental frog and the guts of the pump below him. So it wound up taking close to half an hour to reel in the little guy.  My remark as I brought him in to deposit him in the indoor aquarium?

Go me. I finally triumphed in battle over a life form with an IQ of three.

Now let's see if he survives being in the same tank as a middling-sized comet fish and a darker one that's the size of a small third world country. If there's any doubt about the dangers, check the ingredient list on the side of a jar of fish food sometime and see what it mainly consists of.

That's right. Soylent Green, in this case, is not people.

Comments

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Great. Now I have visions of Charlton Heston (sp) overacting in my head. As if he ever did any OTHER kind of acting.

Hope the wee little fishie makes it!

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I've no idea how my reply to the comment below you got transmogrified into a reply to this one. Whatever.

Grand Poobah Gun Nut will soon be making an appearance in my novella. When I can explain why and how, I surely will. And no, I'm not calling you Shirley.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Maybe I have an egregious tolerance for cheap-ass wine, but these days, most of the wine I drink comes from Target. Their in-house box is really not bad. I've had the sauvignon blanc, the riesling (too sweet for my taste, but my mom likes it), the shiraz, and the merlot.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

We've yet to achieve the joy that's known in Albanyspeak as WIGS (wine in grocery stores), which the liquor store lobby has beaten back every time it's been proposed as a budget balancer (from increased license fees for big boxes now selling beer that would suddenly endanger our Yutes if they were allowed to sell wine next to the beer). But yeah. The almost-as-big-box liquor store chains independent promotional group members offer some pretty effective swill that keep us sufficiently buzzed for a day or two at a time.

Edited because this reply somehow transmogrified into a response to somebody else's comment.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

I hear you! VT, NH, and NC all still have State Liquor Stores for The Hard Stuff.

I find those places incredibly dangerous. Liquor comes in many interesting bottles, yo.

[nentikobe.livejournal.com]

Love wine. Tasmania does good wine.

Mostly I am now singing "Think I had a wet dream... crusing through the gulf stream..."

I blame you.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

As well you should;) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yp9ASVUg_A)