Home Happenings

We've had quite a few eventful weeks going on lately. I thought I'd do a random "Home Happenings Post" since neither of these really require their own posts.

First, we've had quite a few new fish babies. Our Dalmatian Molly had babies within the first week of us having the fish so that was exciting (only two made it out of the 6 we saw). We were told both females were pregnant, but after a month of nothing from our Red Platy and noticing the female Molly was swollen again we just assumed the Platy wasn't pregnant so we weren't going to expect those babies. Then one morning we had red babies swimming around (so exciting)! It was around the time we had to do the first cleaning (around the 10th of the month) we were fishing the babies out so that we didn't vacuum them up and saw we had 6 red babies! Right now we only see about two of them, but they are pretty small, there might be more that are good at hiding. Then, as if that weren't enough fish babies for us, a few days later we noticed we had more white babies! We saw 6 in one day so I'm sure there were more, but since we have red and white babies we aren't sure exactly how much are still there and if any are hiding (because they are REALLY good at that). We'll have to wait till our next cleaning next month. We're thinking we may have to fish the babies out into a smaller tank from now on and try and sell them or give them away or something...if they are going to be having them this often we can't just have fish babies taking up all the oxygen in there.

red babies

Next, we've had so many days of snow, it's been insane! It's been very pretty to look at, but very much a pain in the butt to drive in. On Thursday it took me 2 hours to get to work (no joke!) because of how slowly people were going and how bad the roads were. I told my boss that's not happening ever again for me. If it's ever that backed up I'm done driving right away. But watching it come down while staying inside the house is so lovely! I absolutely love all our windows and just seeing it fall. Larry even made a couple snowmen for us (I forgot to take pictures...awful I know!) for our front yard and now we're seeing others build them in their front yards too :)

Woke up and 3 AM and saw this outside
Had to take a picture...so pretty!

We also got news on Thursday that our poor Otto got either kitty Chlamydia or Herpes...we're not sure. I just noticed after naps he'd wink his left eye a lot and he had tons of eye goop in the corner of it. Then after a few days I noticed his eye was REALLY red. It had me worried it was an infection of some sort (Larry thought it was fine and wasn't that important). Well after calling the vets and them telling me "eyes aren't something we like to wait on" I decided we needed to make an appointment. Now we have to put this awful goop in his eyes 2-3 times a day. He HATES it and I feel so bad that we have to hold him down for it. I try and feed him and let him attack my hands after so that he can "take down the enemy" and feel strong. Hopefully by the time we take him in for his booster shots next week they'll tell us he's all better and we can stop doing that. The good news is it doesn't spread to humans and it's mostly just a respiratory/eye issue, rather than an STD-like issue. As sad as it is, it's kind of funny to say "my cat got the clap" haha.

Just a random silly one of him with his
Tongue hanging out :)

Lastly, last night Larry and I decided to have a fun game night and all the kitties decided to join us. I actually got a picture of ALL of them hanging out together. This is rare since Otto loves to play so much that the girls tend to avoid him. Oscar loves playing with him, but acts like he doesn't. But it was nice to see them all around each other and not hissing at each other. I mean it helped that we opened the blinds so they could look out front, but still!

So that's what we've been up to lately....for now. More to come later though ;)