so shiny

It looks so nice after a car wash!!  It just doesn't last very long before the water spots start showing up.

But I enjoy it while it lasts.

I want to be where the people are

I'm always torn about when to change this nice guys water.  I was reading online that when Betta's are happy they make bubble nests in their tank, which is basically all this guy does all day.  Even though I hope he likes fresh oxygen rich water, I still feel bad about destroying all his hard bubble work.

He was swimming around in circles so fast that I couldn't even get a good picture.  I took that to mean he was happy with his squeaky clean tank.  Apparently I was wrong.

I got back from getting coffee this morning and went to say hi to him only to find his tank completely empty.  I was seriously baffled for a few moments, then figured that the detective had finally discovered him and decided he looked like a tasty snack.

But its very out of character for the detective to do anything or be interested in stuff so I thought, maybe I should just check around and be sure.  And who should I find laying in a pile of dirt at the bottom of my beach bag?  That funny fish Jonathan.

I guess he did not like his squeaky clean tank and because I filled the water up nice and high for him he was able to take out his frustrations by leaping out of his tank, off the counter, and in to my beach bag.

Amazingly he was still alive when I found him, and still appears to be alive though he has been sitting completely still since I put him back in his tank.  His little gills are flapping but he looks pretty shocked.  He's also covered in cat hair.

: (

Well, now I just checked on him again and he's swimming around and wiggling his booty to the music I have playing.  So pretty much business as usual.

Why does he do things like this?!  Why are all my pets weird and bad?

An early morning visitor

I heard something larger and slower than a squirrel crashing through the brush beyond the back yard and wondered what it could be.  I was not expecting to see this handsome little guy poking around the orange trees.

He didn't want to come over to me and the grass was still too wet for me to want to go over to him so I just watched him while he walked around the backyard at his leisure, made some poops, and then continued on his way.

I hope I can look forward to more pop ins from him in the future.

It's nice to spend the morning so peacefully, I have a big day ahead of me today.  My grandfather is coming home!  I am excited but also nervous to see how things go.

I spent all day yesterday getting things in order around the house.  I'm probably not going to be driving my car for a while so I washed it and waxed it yesterday to what I think you'll agree is a mirror-like finish:

You could put on your make up in that door!

It's also become winter in the past few days and since I only brought t-shirts and shorts up in September I decided to pick up a few fall essentials.  I ended up basically getting items that were as close as I could get to my favorite things Jon wears.

I was trying to take a picture of the result to show him when that greedy camera hog had to get in on the action:

It made me realize though that I really don't have very many pictures of me and kitty together which makes me sad.  I guess the problem is just that it's hard to finagle him in to a position for a picture so I usually just end up chasing him around with my phone.  But, I'm always up for a challenge, so you can look forward to more pictures of us together in the future. .

Hopefully.

For now though, I've got to go get my grandfather!