Amanda with her quilt

For your viewing pleasure – here is Amanda with her Christmas present!  Gotta love that wild zebra stripe in with those bright colors… am I a genius or what. 

Also, finished Jaci’s quilt today.  And, I think I bought WAY too much batik print for my quilt.  What am I saying!?  One can never have too much batik print. 

My blue oranda that I got two days ago died today.  So I returned him for a refund – my water quality is perfect, so it was their fault, but they didn’t have any more blues (apparently I am not meant to have a blue oranda ).  Then, I went to the other Box Pet Store (we’ve got three, actually, and a LFS) to see if I could get that white lionhead I almost bought before I found the blue oranda. 

Yes I can, and also the one-eyed pearlscale that I was considering as a companion “retarded swimmer” for Dog.  I figure a one-eyed fish might be almost as blind as he is, and since Arges (Google cyclops) seems active and healthy, I’m not worried that there are other adverse affects of the loss of the eye.  Plus, as I suggested to the girl at the shop, “If you sneak up on her blind side, maybe she won’t notice the net until it’s too late.”  The lionhead has been named Umka, for “polar bear.”