Our fish population has grown! Not by anything our fish have particularly done, though. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger keeps an eye on people in the area looking to re-home goldfish they can't keep, and it's finally paid off. Someone who couldn't keep two plain old ordinary goldfish anymore put them up for adoption and bunnyhugger leapt at the chance. The person then asked if we could also take two fantailed goldfish and absolutely we can; we haven't had a fantail properly in getting near a decade.
So returning from a university meeting that bunnyhugger hadn't realized was called off, she diverted to meet some laconic guy who handed her a pretty hefty plastic container half-full of water and fish. Asked if we should return the container he just said no, so, I guess we have one of those containers that looks like people use to put oatmeal or breakfast cereals in? This could be the seed of a new kitchen organization system we don't actually use.
The fish we set in one of our tanks, the one with the fish we thought least likely to be so big as to swallow the newbies whole. The new fish are very small and goldfish will eat most anything that doesn't occlude their mouths. bunnyhugger was horrified today when she couldn't find the two non-fantails, although when I went in with a flashlight I was able to spot one. (The other, being a more silver-grey, would be difficult to see in the turbid water stirred up by her moving the water filters around.) So we believe they most likely survived all right and, with luck, will be going out to the nice fresh water of our outdoor pond soon. That pond's been filled to capacity thanks to a lot of recent heavy weather (see previous entries) so we just have to wait for it to warm up enough. Maybe clean it too.
Last time you'll recall we got into Dutch Wonderland and got a picture with Duke the Dragon. What comes next? Establishing shots, obviously, but of what?
As it turned out the characters were going in after the morning session(?), off Duke went to the behind-the-stage areas.
No! No, Duke, don't go headless! What do you think this is, furry cons anymore?!
One of the behind-the-scenes buildings has a bunch of fake windows and paints of various characters, like here, with Duke, Merlin (bottom left), and a new dragon we could come to know as Mayhem.
Oh also the Easter Bunny? They've started doing an ``Eggcellent Celebration'' around Eastern, with Tuft the Easter Bunny.
They also have a Christmas event with Santa Claus. The knight down below is Sir Brandon, if I'm reading their page right, and the princess is Princess Brooke.
And here ... ah, an antique carousel! ... Well, not so much. Wikipedia says theirs is a Chance carousel that they installed the distant past of 1999, although the serial number on the plaque is 81-2865 which to me makes it sound like they got it after nearly twenty years of use. No way to know.
Trivia: The United Kingdom lost more than 1,525 warships over the course of World War II. Source: To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, Arthur Herman.
Currently Reading: The Book on the Bookshelf, Henry Petroski. Weird to be reading a book about books sufficiently old (original publication 1999) that it doesn't mention and apologize for Melvil Dewey being like six bastards stacked on top of each other.
