Posted on 04/07/2016 6:50:40 PM PDT by Daffynition
This is one fish will not be seeing the other end of a septum tank.
A tiny pet fish named Peeping Tom, aptly named for his love of creepily staring at people while they were in the shower, sadly passed away after his owner's dad mistakenly moved his fish bowl into a too-shady part of the house.
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We lived on a lake for many years; when *hunter-gatherer* son was about 10y/o he expressed interest in ice fishing on the lake. A nice retired gentleman donated all the equipment to my son, to get him started.
That meant I had to find minnows and other lures for his new-found hobby. Fortunately, we had a small aquarium set-up .... so any bait minnows were stored there until needed.
Well, as fate would have it, a minnow, we eventually named *Lucky* caught the biggest Bass you could ever imagine from the frozen lake. The bass was released, and *Lucky* was retrieved from the Bass’ mouth, and put back in the aquarium. I don’t recall now, how many timwes *Lucky* was used, but it was quite a few. IIRC, he was retired when spring came, and released into the lake, *Free Will* style to fend on his own.
After honorable battle, of course.
Looks like the beginning of a bar-b-q......
Small pyre + small fish = small fry.
I knew it!
A ‘zeebie.’
I used to have zeebies. They’d get up a good head of steam and leap out of the aquarium that had no lid. If I heard them, I’d scoop them up and put them back in. Once in awhile, I’d come home to a dried zeebie on the floor. Not pretty.
Then, I bought a lid.
No, but there were Valkyries and a faint echo of Wagner.
"Vlad, I think you're taking fishing too personally."
...Made in Heaven.
What a great story. Bless you and bless your mom.
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Thank you! Her artist friends really chimed in. They brought all kinds of little mementoes to put on the little ship. One of her friends did pen-and-watercolor paper dolls of the Norse goddess Freya and her 13 cats who were said to have pulled her chariot. (My mom adored her kitties.)
I’m glad we did it. I think it made my mom happy.
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