Well, I had a lovely day. I have another animal question. This one may be tougher than most. I have a huge fish in my aquarium. I have an algae eater that has run amuck. Those suckers (no pun intended) get really huge. I have to have one to keep the aquarium clean. Before PetSmart ran all of the small pet shops out of business, I took the nasty little things to a small pet shop when they got too big. But now, they are all gone and PetSmart doesn't take in fish from other tanks. I would think that there is someone, somewhere with a tank large enough to need one this big but I can't seem to find them. It's kind of funny, every man that I have asked has said the same thing, and it always something had to do with the toilet. I have thought about taking him to the nearest lake and letting him at least have a chance but I'm afraid of it. The only way I know to get a fish that big is to use a hook and bait. I do love to fish, but that's kind of like fishing for salmon, there isn't much sport in it. Now, I don't want to hear from salmon fisher people. I have seen streams teeming with salmon, all you had to do was bend over and pick them up. I should have tried that. Instead, I bait fished, very annoyed that they wouldn't take the bait that was clearly right in front of their stupid faces. This guy on the other side of the stream watched me do that for 2 weeks before he finally said, "You know, they don't eat when they are spawning." NO, I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing. I decided to go and fish in the lake instead, it was right there, but it froze within two days. It got really cold in New York. I was less than a half an hour from the Canadian border and it was some kind of new and improved cold that they had up there. I was raised in Chicago and I thought I knew what cold was all about. But that was some extra special cold up there. It was so cold that one day the door actually froze shut. I had seen sliding glass doors ice up when I was a kid, but this time it was happening to a metal door. It just froze shut. I didn't know that it had happened and my son came home from school and couldn't get in. He was very angry because he thought that I had locked him out. He kept getting angrier and I just laughed...blow drying the door as I did. I'm glad that there wasn't a fire, I couldn't get out any other way except the window. If the fire was in front of the wondow, I would have been screwed. My other son burned his hand from the cold. He grabbed an iron railing and it froze his palm so badly that it was burned. My daughter and I were driving along the lake one evening and I ran off of the road. We lived in a resort town and it was deserted for the winter. We had been driving near the cottages and there wasn't a soul out there. We were stuck in the snow and in a royal mess. I said to her, You know what we need is a pick up truck full of really large people." And just then, one pulled up. They told us to stay in the car and they got us out. I have always been pretty lucky with cars. Every single male in my family tried to get my car out of the driveway during the blizzard of 79 but couldn't. I finally just got the curtains that I had in the back seat and wrapped them around the tires. I rolled right over them and out I went.

Man, talk about digressing. So, does anyone out there have a suggestion regarding Moby Dick here? And no, I am not flushing him down the toilet men so don't even bother. I would prefer to put pretty fish in that tank but I'm afraid that fish is going to realize that all he has to do is open his mouth and he can eat all of the other fish. Funny, the cat has never taken a liking to that fish.

Meg