Corina – Page 5 – Brandon Moeller

Baby fishy, baby kitteh

It’s Cinco De Mayo, and Kim made tacos. She had a good day today – she received a job offer and she found an orange female kitten up for adoption at the local vet. She quickly accepted the job offer, and I’m going to take full credit for the accomplishment based on the website I built for her a few months ago: kimberlymoeller.com

Speaking of orange babies, over the weekend – when I finally got around to cleaning Corina’s fish tank – I discovered that the fish I just knew was pregenant when I bought it, must have been, because I found its small orange offspring.

Check out these photos:

He likes to hide under the large decoration in the tank.

Here's a shot of the baby with its orange mother. I wonder what happened to all his brothers and sisters? Did the filter get them? Did the other fish eat them? Did mom eat them?

First strawberry

On Friday, my daughter picked and ate the first strawberry of the season. She reports it was good.

Corina was the recipient of the first strawberry of the season.

Week Six

Photos from the sixth week in the garden are up, spanning April 18-24, and have been tagged "Week Six" in my Gardening 2010 album in my Picasa Web Albums.

Here's a shot from yesterday of my original bed. Lots of growth to note, and a trellis was saved from the curbside on trash day - thanks to Kim. More on that later, I'm sure.

I found these periwinkle (as Kim calls them) or vinca (as I call them) volunteers in Kim's bed this week. There's plenty more returning, too. So I snagged these first three, in hopes of transplanting them to the extended bed to keep these resilient flowers coming.

This is my largest coleus. I transplanted him Sunday. But here, he's shown in his original pot.

This is my largest zinnia, which I believe I direct sowed into my bed. It's a little lanky, long in the tooth perhaps, maybe it's the wind or the fertilizer, but it's really healthy. It's said to get up to 16 inches tall and spread profusely.Â

This is a "Lollipop Gerbera Raspberry" gerbera jamesonii that Corina and I bought at Lowe's last year when it was discounted to, like 50 cents or something. We bought a companion one that's white with red accents that I put in my bed this year. It has grown a lot so far this spring. — This is a "Lollipop Gerbera Raspberry" gerbera jamesonii daisy that Corina and I bought at Lowe's last year when it was discounted to, like 50 cents or something. We bought a companion one that's white with red accents that I put in my bed this year. It has grown a lot so far this spring.

You know you’re in deep when you’re going to shows, people

I attended my first flower show this weekend. It wasn’t my first gardening event, but it was the first one that had a contest where flowers were judged.

The Space City Chapter of the American Hibiscus Society had its first show in Pasadena this past weekend, so Kim and Corina and I braved the torrential storm to travel 45+ miles across the metropolis to see purty flowers and have a chance at grabbing some exotic specimens ourselves.

We didn’t stay that long. We got there three minutes late, and at that time – all the really exotic offerings from the local growers had been snagged – some people had whole shopping carts full. I was only allowed what I could carry, so I picked up an Indian Princess and a Seminole and then I got in the very, very long line to wait to purchase them ($8 a pop).

I’d have a photo of the two shaped bushes/trees I bought, but it’s dark now and I don’t feel like taking photos now, so just settle for this one, which links to a photo gallery of shots taken by my wife, while I was in line waiting to fork over more money for my obsession.

Corina looks at hibiscus flowers ready to be judged.