Out of the Pond and onto the Couch

Tonight I am thankful for digital video recorders. We bought a new tv during the holidays and decided to bump up our cable service instead of buying a DVD player/recorder. So when I'm not cleaning the pond or roaming the countryside picking up and dropping off daughters, you might find me on the couch.

It is amazing how one little device can make everyone in the house happy. Other than the lights and the air conditioning, or the fridge and the toilet... I'm hard pressed to think of anything else we all use on a daily basis. And use it we do. There is along list of what we record: Friends, Soccer, NCIS, Bones, Bakugan, Pokemon, Soccer, FSU football, and did I say soccer? The only problem we have is figuring out how we can all watch all we record.

It's still a clean pond!

Today I planted (and I use the term loosely) a water lily in my pond. I will say the contrast between the beauty of a lily's bloom and the muck the roots live in, is well, huge. And muck is gilding the lily, no pun intended.

I had to clean out the pond before I could plant though. The water hyacinths and water lettuce have multiplied many times over the last month. I tried giving babies away, but I'm running out of neighbors with ponds. So, I had to sacrifice some. There was simply no surface area for the lily pads. And it was getting hard to see the fish too. And fish, after all, is what the pond is all about.

So, tonight, the fish can see the moon and I can see the fish. And all is right with the world.