Being pregnant and sick and having my joints all go to mush with that lovely relax-hormone-thing has made it difficult to keep up with my fish tank. I believe it had been 3 weeks since I did a water change when last night I noticed Calcifer had some deep red spots on his headgrowth. I called the man I bought him from, and was given some things to try. He has bacterial infections in his head. Lovely. I’ve lifted him out of the water and dabbed the red spots with peroxide on a Q-tip. I need to go to the store and pick up some Neosporin cream, not ointment that I can rub on his head once a day if I can dab it dry enough that it’ll adhere. I can set up a hospital type thing in some buckets and treat him with a general anti-biotic bath but seriously, I’ve never had good luck with bath treatments for things in the past. And I have a call in to Goldfish Connection to see how fast we can get their medicated food here (mine’s old) and what it’ll cost me.

Lame, lame, lame! If Calcifer pulls through this, I think I’ll be better about those water changes. It’s just so HARD lugging 5 gallon buckets of water around when it’s not so easy to walk anyway.

WordPress isn’t letting me upload photos today, so you get another long, wordy post with no pictures. Sorry.

Yesterday was the yearly picnic/BBQ/end of year party for the 3,4,5,&6th graders. We were up at Kayak Point which is gorgeous. The weather was lovely and it was very relaxing. I have some great pictures.

Friday, Carol and I are going to the Black Sheep Gathering. I’m so excited! Tho’ I’m not sure how comfortable I’ll be on my Thermarest 5 months pregnant in a tent. It’s only one night, and the grass is usually really long and cushy. Nate (and I, for that matter) would like to know why Fiber Events hate men. Madrona has been over Valentine’s Day the past few years, and this year, Black Sheep is over Father’s Day. Which is why we’re coming home Saturday night instead of Sunday morning. How hard is it to avoid family holidays when planning these things? Enquiring minds want to know.

So that’s that I guess. I’m just plugging along, worried about my dumb fish, looking forward to my favorite getaway of the year this Friday.

Oh, that reminds me! I like to go to Black Sheep with my wheel empty so I can wander the tradeshow, find something I like, and spin it. So I made myself finish that bombyx silk last week. It’s really lovely, and you should have seen me trying to stretch that skein between my toes to get a picture. That I can’t post. I’m going to keep trying.

I got about 400 yards from 2 ounces, and there was some waste. Some of it was pretty matted and lumpy. It didn’t draft well at all. I’m looking forward to knitting something relaxing this weekend.