Fishy

 Casey and I have gotten into a habit of tackling projects on Sundays.

I don't know when it started, but it is as if every Sunday

must be project day and if no project comes to mind by 10am

we make one up.

Last Sunday was one of those no-pressing-tasks-on-the-to-do-list,

sort of days, so in order to starve off the possibility

that we might spend a Sunday actually relaxing, we invented a task:

It was time to get a fish tank.

To be fair, we loved having a fish tank in Portland and 

have missed our fish ever since my idea

of taking them in the car with us across the country was vetoed.

(Fine, so it wasn't my best idea...)

So, by 10:30 we had found a tank on Craigslist

(Have I mentioned I love Craigslist?)

and were on our way to pick it up.

After setting up the tank and the stand,

we stopped by the fish store to get a couple extra accessories

and our first batch of hearty fish that would create our "biological filter"

(basically, their activities over the course of 5-6 weeks

make the tank hospitable for other, more fussy, types of fish,

As a fun addition, I nestled these spider plants

in a gap over the water at the back of the tank.

When their roots get long enough, 

they will dangle into the water and collect nutrients

from the fish waste.

Our first little venture into aquaponics,

so exciting!