... goes unpunished. Or however the saying goes. H had guppies in her classroom this year and the guppies needed new homes when school let out. They seemed relatively low maintenance (i.e., no special tank needed), so I acquiesced to H's pleading. We started with 5--2 adults (male and female) and 3 babies. Two of the babies disappeared, the victims of apparent guppy infanticide. Then the parents started to reproduce, well, like guppies, and the other day there were about 2 dozen new babies. Thankfully, the parents continued their carnivorous ways and we're down to about 10 babies. It's survival of the fittest in our house! But I still don't know what I'm going to do with all these guppies.
T planted some type of bulb at school and brought that home for the summer. It hadn't sprouted anything, so I've been faithfully watering and nurturing it, hoping to help it grow. Unfortunately, the only thing it seems capable of is being a breeding ground for gnats, which I've spent the last couple days swatting dead. It's like the fruit flies from last summer all over again. I finally gave up and with a tinge of guilt, put the pot of dirt with unsprouted bulb outside to peter out.
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