Two of Four

blog-two-of-four.jpgLing had to work late on VD several evenings ago, so I got off the hook from having to plan for another madly expensive and exorbitant dinner as it’s often the case for days like these. We instead had dinner at home, with myself whipping up one her favorite fare: Pasta Carbonara pasta, and over an episode of The West Wing, a drama series that we enjoy watching together.

Valentine’s Day was in short a quiet and simple affair for the both of us. That said, we were saddened that not all of the four Lionheads Ling bought me as a year ago in the last VD made it past their first birthday.

The four little buggers had been surviving pretty robustly for most of the last 12 months; until a week ago for some reason part of the bacteria colony – an essential component of an aquarium cycle – died, causing the water conditions to suddenly and quickly deteriorate without either of our knowledge. Two of the fellows managed to survive long enough for us to discover the problem while the other two succumbed quickly.

We were fearing for the survivors too as they remained sick for several days. Fortunately, as of yesterday, both seemed to have fully recovered and are swimming abouts as before, even if they look just a tad sorrowful at missing two of their family.