Tuesday Toot - Managed to not kill our kindergarten fish today

Here I am, happy as can be. Made up a deep dish of eggplant parm and had that baking in the oven. My daughter was busy having corn tortilla chips and carrots with "dip" (chicken salad) and my son was happily munching away on his rice cake PBJ sandwich.

I decided I'd go ahead and change out the Young's water. Young is Alex's red Betta fish that he got when he graduated from Kindergarten. We are now going into 2nd grade, so Young has done pretty well. He lives in a little 1.5 gallon tank on my kitchen counter and for all intents and purposes he is my fish. I change out his water, I feed him -99.99% of the time. Alex does enjoy him and occasionally one of the kids will ask to feed him. So I transfer Young into the little round fish bowl so I can empty out his water in his tank and clean out the plant and stuff. There's no filter so it gets a little filmy especially during the summer. Everything is all set and I go to transfer Young back into his tank. I reach into the bowl with the small fish-net and doncha know.. Young takes a giant jump out of the net and lands on my stovetop. First, it was hard to see him because the stove is black and he is dark red. I had the biggest panic as I had no idea where the fish jumped out to and if he would have survived. Then, I spotted him laying there on the stove. Mind you, I have eggplant parm in the oven - my stovetop is hot. My heart stopped beating for a moment as I thought that Young was not with us any longer. I picked him up in a flash and put him back into his tank. He immediately swam away 'good as new'. I keep checking Young all day but he seems to be just fine - eating, swimming around. I just did not expect him to take a suicidal leap out of the fish net like that.

So, my accomplishment for the day - no, its not the most amazing eggplant parm.. it is that I didn't kill Young.