Sleeping with the fishes (on my mind).
So today was a sad day, it was the day that yesterday could have been but wasn’t. sigh, this is what happens when I am tired I get all poetic. I shall explain.
Yesterday we went over to my in-laws to check on their dog and the small pond full of Coy they “have”. Well yesterday we got there to discover the pond empty and the fish gasping on the bottom. we sprang into action with a hose to re-fill it and investigated the problem. The hose that moved the water from the pump to the filter had somehow become broken and had then pumped all the water out of the pond. Two fish died. I MacGyver’d it as best I could but I didn’t have any Duct tape…
Anyway long story short we got the the house again this afternoon and the hose had come loose again and emptied the pond again. This time it had done it early enough that we were too late, all of the fish were dead and stiff, stuck to the bottom and covered with ants and flies. I had to peel them off, refill the pond so that the Turtle that also lives there would be able to swim around. I brought Duct tape from home and fixed the pump again, we will find out tomorrow if it stayed working.
In honor of the brave fish who are no longer with us I shall now go to bed and observe eight hours of of silence while I “sleep with the fishes” (on my mind).