...But first, coffee (with Jen)

This past week my hubby and I had a staycation.  We love Fall - and it's for this reason that we always take a week or so off to enjoy it. During our week off we gorged on Little Caesars Stuffed Crazy Bread and Cinnamon rolls (nom nom nom carbs lol). Purchased a few new aquarium inhabitants, including 3 snails, 3 Odessa Barbs, 3 Skirt Tailed Tetra Glowfish, and a Kheli Loach. So far, one of the Tinfoil Barbs has tried to immediately pick up and eat the loach, and tried to pull a snail off the glass of the aquarium. We are doing fish counts daily until the Tinfoil Barbs lose interest. We also took a drive through Swift Current to Marystown to do some sightseeing. Along this route are a few lookouts.  We did stop at one of them, however, the binoculars that were stationed here were broken (maybe sandblasted by the wind sweeping over the area?)   There seems like there is nothing special about this area.  But, this is the only area of thi...

I remember receiving my 10 gal aquarium for Christmas in 1999.  This was my second tank - the first being a 5 gal which was kept in the kitchen, but I don't remember when I started keeping fish in that tank. I had the 10 gal aquarium set up in my childhood bedroom for about 10 years. At first, this was a cold water set up with blackmore fish, comets, and a few other short-lived fish. My longest living cold water fish lived for about 2 years. Over the first few years of my 10 gal set up, my fish died quickly and I didn't know why because it was a similar set up to the 5 gal that I moved up from. That is, I didn't know why until I placed an aquarium thermometer in the tank. This was when I discovered my "cold water tank" was actually being heated to tropical temperatures because of the hood light and the exterior air in the house/room.  The tank water was far too warm for the cold water fish, which is why they kept dying a few months after being placed in the tank...