If I’m ever having a bad day and need a laugh I think I’ll pull this clip up. Penny makes me laugh whenever I look at her! First off, she’s got hardly any tail or neck, so she’s shaped like a bowling ball with a head, second, she stands upright and looks like she’s wearing pantaloons right down to her ridiculous feathered feet, and third – well, you really have to see her come running when I show up with treats!
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Pseudotropheus Estherae
These are p. estherae, also called Red Zebras or Cobalt Zebras, which as you can see is stretching it a bit in either direction. The red is not what I would call red, in fact I would call them yellow. I only have one blue male, and it is a pale blue. This is my 110g display tank in the living room. The amazing thing about these fish is that they are ALL estherae, despite the wild variations in color. If the solid yellow breed with the blue male, they will produce more solid yellow babies, and the dominant males eventually turn blue. In my tank there is only one yellow male dominant enough to show his blue colors.
If the blue male breeds with a yellow/black female, or a yellow/black male breeds with a yellow female, you get more yellow/black fish. And when the video swings over to the rocks you see some of the yellow/black babies hiding in the rocks. This type of fish is a mouthbrooder, so the mom will carry the eggs in her mouth until they hatch and the babies are ready to swim and feed on their own.
The dominant yellow/black male in the tank is most visible at the very end of the clip, and he stands out because he is BIG, and because in the dominant yellow/black fish, the black turns blue. So I have blue fish, yellow fish, yellow/black fish, and yellow/blue fish, and they are all the same type of fish – amazing!
Chickens in the snow (or not)
When I checked on the chickens this morning I saw Big Bird out with one of his buff hens.

I was out in the pasture watching Barclay tear up a molehill when I heard a strange crow from Big Bird which I hadn’t heard him make before. I went over to investigate and found him walking around calling for his hens. The other chicken you hear is the one buff hen answering him.
But the hens aren’t stupid, it’s cold outside! They were all in the coop nice and warm and working on laying eggs!
Where the hell is Matt
I’m kind of bummed about Mighty, but this made me smile today.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Big Bird crowing! I tried to upload this to YouTube but they compressed it so badly it looked terrible, so I’m uploading it directly through blogger to see how that does. NOTE: Nope, they compressed the heck out of it too. Oh well…

