Goldfish saved by heroic roommate

Our roommate Mike decided to clean out the tank for the homemade waterfall and pond we have in our backyard. We're getting ready to start gardening, so he wanted to finish the job before we started planting.

As he was pumping out water in the tank, he saw a fish swimming around in the muck. He grabbed a bowl and rescued the fish and put him in our fish tank.



Now you may be wondering how this goldfish got into our water tank. Well last summer, Mike went to the pet store and bought six goldfish to live in the pond. After a few days of living in the pond, the fish disappeared. Mike didn't think anything of it, because he figured the neighborhood cats had eaten the fish. So you can imagine his surprise finding one of the fish alive eight months later.

After rescuing the first survivor, Mike fashioned a net to find the other fish. So far he's rescued four of the original six. Our fish tank is a little cozy now, but all the survivors seem to be happy swimming in clean water with lots of food.

Picnic

On Monday Tyler and I decided to have a picnic on the beach. It worked out well because we found a flat rock that was high up, so the dogs couldn't get to our tasty cheese and wine. Moses and Aspen had a great time chasing each other in Bellingham Bay and trying to run down birds.



There was also a cool rock carving at the beach:

Will you be my Valentine?

Super Bowl

For the Super Bowl, Tyler biked to Anacortes from Bellingham (about 40 miles) with our friends Eric, Margarito and Rogelio. It has been a tradition of Eric's for the past three years, and Tyler decided to join in this year. He borrowed a bike from Eric, which he was really excited to try out (see above).

I met up with the boys at the Brown Lantern at the end of their journey. Tyler finished the ride in 2 1/2 hours, and was pretty tired. It's a good thing I was there to drive him back home.