18 January

Meet Frida (Before Maria Gets Home)

by Jon Katz
Meet Frida The Goldfish

Maria is out at her belly-dancing class, and then is going to help a friend move. I thought I’d write this before she gets home, she knows nothing about Frida The Goldfish, who I brought home as a gift to her. I suppose if she doesn’t want Frida, I can bring her into my study.

I was at a feed and pet store buying fish for the refugee kids who are coming to Pompanuck this weekend, (they are prizes in a voluntary reading contest I’m sponsoring)  and I saw Frida swimming in a big tank by herself. I liked the looks of Frida, I named her on the spot after Frida Kahlo, one of Maria’s favorite artists, I just have the  feeling she belongs here.

I bought a small tank, some rainbow  gravel, and a plastic plant. Frieda doesn’t need a filter or a heater, she likes cold temperatures and eats little. There is room for a companion if we want that, or she can swim happily by herself. I sat and watched her tonight for awhile, she is calming.

THe backdrop to this story is that I used to breed tropical fish in my life as a known strange child, I have four or five big tanks with heaters and filters, I bred several kinds of tropical fish, including Betas, (Siamese Fighting Fish) and guppies and mollies.

I got Maria goldfish when we lived in Hebron, and she enjoyed having her. I asked the fish clerk for a female, Maria is not wild about men. Anyway, she’ll be home soon and I have more blogging to do, so I’ll just put this up and wait to see her reaction. Generally, she loves taking care of plant and living things.

But I doubt she was expecting a fish. More later.

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