Holy crap! Christmas in your own home is awesome. I’m writing this from our living room on a dreary December evening. The pellet stove is blazing, a glass of egg nog is on the table, and hipchristmas.com’s audio player is supplying a steady stream of Christmas cheer. Claire is going to write more about her amazing holiday decorations and our impending cookie swap later in the week, but I thought I’d show off the Christmas tree we put up in our goldfish tank.
The video above is an introduction to Gargle and Grybowski, our spoiled goldfish. I got them a little over five years ago at a pet shop as 10 cent feeder fish. They were tiny, and lived in a tiny tank in my kitchen, but they grew and grew, eventually moving with us from Atlanta to Huntington Beach, California, and eventually to our new home in Eureka.
The fish have a prominent place in our living room. Their 55 gallon tank is located so they can see who comes in the front door, as well as keep tabs on us as we hang out in the living room at night.
Claire found this great ceramic Christmas tree lamp with lite-brite-style plastic pegs in it. It’s almost identical to one that I grew up (ask my mother about the year toddler Garth ate all of the plastic pegs… they were all eventually “recovered”, washed and put back on the tree). We removed the lamp from our tree and put it in the fish tank so the fish could join us in our holiday cheer.
Now I’ve got to help Claire get ready for our Christmas party, which will be our first party in the new house. Stay tuned for more Christmas fun and a full-fledged tour of the 100 years of wallpaper we discovered in our kitchen before we put up the drywall.
I love everything about this. (Especially the baby Garth light bulb recovery mission.)
Glad you like it!