That tickles

I have a 35-gallon fish tank in my office, left over from our wetlands exhibit from last summer. It currently contains one mosquito fish (about 1.5 inches), a crapload of snails, and three water skaters. I don't know how long water skaters usually live, but these have been living in the fish tank since the end of July, when I caught them in Emigration creek. I think we may be going for a record here.

Anyway, last week I was cleaning out the tank and changing out 15 gallons of water. I had thrown some ants on the water for the water skaters to eat, and they had been fighting really hard over them. They're good fighters. They're also very good jumpers. As I was vacuuming out the bottom of the tank, two of them got tired and decided to crawl out of the water for a rest. I took this picture right after one of them got back in the water.

Lego Night photo

My elephant, and my prize.

News

Got this in an email on Friday:

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Happy Valentine's Day

Lego Night

The other night for our FHE activity, we had Lego night. Everyone brought all of their Legos from home and just played for two hours. It was awesome. I was way excited. I rounded up all of the Legos from Dad's house, and even took apart Clark's Lego man because he used up most of the bricks.

I built a wind-up car an an elephant, Missy built a house, and Wes built a pirate ship. The pirate ship won the big prize (a Pixar shorts DVD) and I got the small prize, a copy of Pres. Hinckley's book, which title escapes me for the moment.

Pictures to follow when I get them off my camera.