Weird as hell!

Got home tonight and it was still nice out (going to hell this Thursday, with snow in the forecast, thanks to Canadian air) so I thought I would drain the reflecting pool. For first time readers, this is a galvanized wash tub, sunk in the ground, surrounded by flat slat (check out archived pictures if you want to see it). First took out the water lily. Once drained a bit, leaves cut back, then put into a plastic bag and then stored over the winter in a cool place, (I'm thinking front door closet) its supposed to come back. Cost more than $25.00 US, so it's worth the try.

Flashback to last year. I had bought some "feeder" goldfish for the pond. Jake and Carla pooh-poohed them and bought some more expensive ones. It was fun feeding them, as they would come up to the top and thrash around. However, tragedy struck! Went out one morning and found the water lily and water hyacinth ripped to shreds and all the fish gone. Figured it was a hungry raccoon who thought he's found the Big Boy Breakfast bar.

Flash forward to this year. Secretly bought 4 feeder goldfish. Less than two weeks later, couldn't find them. Actually ran a fish net through the pool but nobody's home. Gave up on fish.

Over the summer I refilled the pool several times, but not in a while, so water tonight was black. Bailing it out with a plastic bucket, I got down to the bottom. Suddenly, I saw a flash. It was a 3 1/2 or 4 inch fat goldfish!!! What the hell did it eat? I stopped putting in food in June!

Got a net and fished (lol) it out. Put him in with Newt, who's not happy. Newt always liked it when I would buy some little guppies or zebra fish (thinking he needed friends) because then he would eat them when I wasn't looking. However, he's not too sure about this monster fish.

Ate the last of the fried chicken and cauliflower soup for dinner (Tuesday's trash day and wanted all the bones outta here!) Started watching a fascinating series on the History Channel - Rome, engineering an Empire - Two hour show and got about halfway through before falling asleep. Oh well, I taped it anyway...