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Trees and shrubs included. And I got the Asters for $1/pot (they have a whole rack of them in the "sad plant" section in Renton.)

I'm not a pattern person or good at following instructions (this is why I retired from knitting years ago 😆)

Has anyone else done the Haunted House kit? I'm thinking of going with a "Sea Hag" sort of theme. But, oh my, there's a lot of pieces.

This shrimp appears to be pregnant and yet I feel like i never see any babies. There are only 3 or 4 shrimps and 8 Strawberry Rasboras in the tank (tall 10 gallon)

I'm not 100% if there are any males and wasn't sure if a female could produce eggs but have them not be fertile (like a chicken???)

This is after searching the "wildfire" layer on Google. The second is the Watch Duty app.

I am assuming raccoons. Every plant tipped over and ripped out of their pots. Just an absolute mess. Managed to pull all the adults out and clean the pond, but who knows how many fry I lost. Moved the fish to a temporary container and everything is now covered in wire fencing. Not how I planned on spending my Sunday.

So many folks out today, pushing, dragging, carrying strollers 🤣🤣🤣

Somehow I'm getting almost 100 mpg 🤣

We've come full circle in our outdoor adventures. I currently have anxiety thinking about some of the stuff we got up to in our first gen Honda CR-V 🤣

We've gone from just getting in the car and driving to eek long backpacking trips back to driving forest roads just to see what's out there.

I keep feeling like my 20 gallon is...meh. A lot of the dwarf sag is starting to not look so good and I feel like the rest is just a big green blob. I do like my giant Amazon sword though. Water params are good, Ph is a little low, but consistent.

Fish are all healthy. I bought 6 otos at Thanksgiving and still have 6 otos, so I guess I'm doing something right.

Should I just live with it? How would I go about "remodeling"if I decided to? Do I change the substrate? What do I do with the fishes while I'm working? Would the tank need to cycle if I use some of the same plants and the same filter (just a big sponge filter?)

This is the third or fourth time I've had to clean it up. Hopefully after yesterday it's all blown down (and off the roof.) I wonder if it would be good mulch 🤔

I saw a Goldfinch in my yard! I know it's the state bird (Washington) but I have literally never seen one here.

It was my Nana's favorite bird and I have one tattooed on my arm as part of a memorial piece. So seeing one (finally!) means a lot.

No actual pic because of window screens 😄