Downsized

It seemed unfair somehow to be going through all this downsizing in our home and not give the same benefit to our fish.  We had an aging 10-gallon tank which recently started growing stalagmites all over, meaning the aquarium seals seal were in the early stages of failure.  Since we're down to only two guppies and a ghost shrimp, from the time when we had 40 fish swimming in the tank, it made sense to go smaller.  I call this the fish condo.  Just Mom, Dad, and one little shrimp.  Everyone seems to be enjoying their new abode, especially me, now that I don't have to look at the aging giant tank anymore with its algae, its crusty sides, and it's stained, tide-marked glass.  


Once these fish are gone, we will hopefully end the Aquarium Era in our lives.  All the kids enjoyed having fish when they were little, but now that they're grown it doesn't make much sense to keep on anymore.  Fish are relatively easy to take care of, but their tank does occasionally need scrubbing out, and this is not a pleasant chore.  But these fish of ours, which are now several years old, are welcome to live out their lives in their condo until they're called to return home to that great ocean in the sky (or wherever fish go in the afterlife).  


Lean and streamlined.  The abundance found in having less stuff cluttering our lives.  That's the theme for 2012.