Ok, it started out like a normal day, with the cat waking me up at 5:15 sharp in spite of the fact that there was no earthly need for me to get up at such an ungodly hour. Nevertheless, that's pretty much ops normal for this place. Up I got, and came downtstairs to start the daily crawl.
About an hour later the younger Thing (you know, Thing 1 and Thing 2?) came rushing downstairs to say "The fish had babies!!" And sure enough... where there were five fish yesterday, there are now five adults and FOURTEEN BABIES!!
I knew they were live bearers but holy fish fry, Batman!Alright, so it's a normal day aside from suddenly needing a much larger tank.
Just after dinner, Thing 1 insisted on going out for a bike ride. Given our placement in town and the fact that neither of them has the world's best balance, we still go with them whenever they go riding. So Nate and EJ headed out the door to do that.
Five minutes later there is a huge caterwauling and in comes the pair, EJ bleeding from both knees, scraped on both arms, and... with a nice big chip out of one front tooth
So we've spent the past 2 hours kind of vibrating in place, waiting to see whether she needed to be rushed to the dentist or the emergency room (she was screaming about her arm...but being prone to grand flights of dramatic frenzy like her mom, it seems that what she has is a stretched ligament. Painful, but not broken).Dentist says "oh darn... but I see 50 of those a year. She'll be fine." I'm sure she will, but I don't know about ME... that was the worst moment or two since the emergency run to the hospital with a life-threatening asthma attack a few years back. I'm sure there are at least five or six new gray hairs.
Then we're watching the imminent arrival of katrina... Holy smokes guys... I hope you're all safe down there. This is very, very scary. Lynxa, or anyone else down at that end of the world, please let us know that you're ok as soon as you can.
What a day!!
I hope she feels better!
This is the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the US and the lowest pressure front ever recorded. They are invoking the name of Camille (and for those of you who don't know, they talk about Camille in Louisiana the way they talk about WW II in Europe 
).
Bunches of tiny new fish are fun to watch! (But I agree with Lynxa that many of them will probably mysteriously disappear. And funny thing, the big fish won't seem to be eating so much of the fishyfood flakes for a few days! 
since I am included in that statement. 
Can't be helped...
