hope you all are doing well. i have been busy here at WSU and been thinking i needed to evolve to have fins and gills. there is no snow here but tons of rain.
I went skiing last weekend up at schweitzer. i was soooo happy to ski and see snow. that was my first time skiing this season. the snow was great.
currently i have added a 10 gallon fish tank to my dorm room.
5 gold fish
1 shubunkin
1 picasso fish (the sucker one)
2 white clouds (had 5 but a few were eaten)
1 halfmoon beta in the tank (he seems to have lost some of the blue scales, but he is a pig.)
1 other beta (the shredded fin style) in a beta bowl.
i find that fish are very similar to chickens in many ways. both fish and chickens even have a vent. they have many similar behaviors, and both always think they are hungry. they both exhibit 'pecking' and also have a pecking order. in the case of the beta, he acts just like a rooster, but he hoards the food away from the goldfish. its cute and funny since all information i have read about betas say they do not eat algae, but he loves to eat the algae pellets for the picasso fish, goldfish like them too....
a fish tank is the perfect entertainment/ distraction for a person with ADD. (better than TV)
which by the way, finally got done testing for it at the shrink and now i know what specifically i have from formal testing.
ADHD with inattentiveness and compulsiveness.
(apparently the term "ADD" is gone and now there are many sub categories of adhd)
all i know is that now i bought a really good audio recorded with noise cancellation. i have it take all the lecture notes in case i zone out. it also help since 2/4 of my professors are indian and their accent is strong.
I miss my chickens. my parents say the chicks are getting really big, when i saw them last i think there are ~4 roosters out of 13. they keep asking me when they can move them outside into the main coop. i ask, "are they done peeping", "i don't hear it". "lets wait till they are about 20 weeks and when you move them move them and their momma hen at night")
i left the hen with them because she is used to being in an 80 degree room, kicking her out to the coop where its 30 isnt fair. though she does show signs of a lack of calcium, and they are fed some layer pellets but not too much to hurt the chicks. they are still on chick crumble.
They are laying many eggs lately. almost 2 dozen a day= 10-14 dozen a week. most are taken to the Community cuppboard (food bank) and they love it. though i went once and one person accused me of dying the eggs (the ee hens lay blue and green, and the other hens lay different whites and browns) so rainbow like. sometimes its hard to explain that egg color changes with breed, when people are used to just white eggs.....
mom has a lady at church that wants to buy 10 dozen every week for her family.
Hope everyone is healthy and doing well.
btw i saw that someone said they are now a grandma, Congratulations!
